Faust <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_(book)>
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Chris,
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> The bible at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the late 2960s was Josef
Albers'
> "Interaction of Color". (demonstration here at
> http://www.rotorbrain.com/foote/interactive/hacks/colorinteraction1.html
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> Many times I struggled with the emotional and psychological effects of
> color, making attempts to modify or control my choices. All attempts were
> unsuccessful. For me color had a life of its own, its own direction, and I
> have gravitated to different limited palettes since. Photoshop's
> ‘eyedropper’ tool has been a wonderful tool for me, for it seems that
color
> flows from shade to shade, not unlike music or poetry for that matter. It
is
> helpful to sample this melody, hue to hue or word to word, like stepping
> stones into a composition or a narrative. In the end, Albers was simply
more
> proof to me that what was ‘out there’ was not at all what it appeared to
be.
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:24 -0500, Peter ciccariello wrote:
>> > http://www.facebook.com/l/afe03;thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/
>>
>> This pushed me to think about colour and the ways in which our
>> understandings and the way colour is thought did change considerably
>> around 1960 (which also coincided with publication of Ittens elements of
>> colour in 1961 which links back to the Bauhaus)
>>
>> To flatten texture I have been painting objects for the still lifes
>> using student acrylics and the standard six primary colours (ie warm and
>> cool so you have warm red and cool red) and basically just for the fun
>> of mixing colours. However the feeling these colours have seemed to me
>> to be like graphic design colours (eg Pantone colours) more so then
>> painterly colours of oil on canvas. Pop art comes to mine or David
>> Hockney's use of acrylic.
>>
>> I did a quick search and my suspicions seem correct so any
>> comments,leads welcome. (I also play around with mixing colours on a
>> computer screen)
>>
>> http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/livingcolor/index.html
>>
>> http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/30
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