Bert Arnold​​​​​​​
paintings

Trois couleurs (three colours) is a triptych consisting of the paintings, Bleu (Blue), Blanc (White) and Rouge (Red) (like the movies of Kieslowski).

These three are named after the colours of the French flag, representing the principles of the French revolution.

Blue represents freedom, white equality and red fraternity.

The slogans of the Enlightenment already had a colour but not a symbol (except for the equality sign).

I chose the circle as a symbol of fraternity. It stands for the brother chain, the circle of boys and girls, a chain of people who show their solidarity. A living mandala, in which no one is the first or the last.

The square became het symbol of freedom. The square lives in Flatland, where he has three degrees of freedom. He can rotate, move to the left or to the right, back and forward, but not up or down. He dreams of becoming a cube and to live in Spaceland, where he has six degrees of freedom. But in the meanwhile he is happy that he is not a point living in Lineland, there he would have only one degree of freedom, and could only go forward or backward. Even worse, the inhabitants of Pointland have no degree of freedom, they cannot move at all.