Hey everybody,

I just wanted to help break the ice with an oil painting from James Jean; this painting is titled Catch/Batter. He is one of my favorite artist and in my opinion a master of color blending. This picture does not have a large distribution of color but somehow it still manages to be dynamic yet insipid. If anyone is interested in anymore of his work you can view it on the following website: http://jamesjean.com/

Welcome

Hi everyone!
Welcome to color theory. I'm looking forward to a great semester as we investigate color and the limits of our own perception. With this blog, we can share thoughts and ideas, upload interesting images and links to other great resources, as well as find out more about artists and ideas addressed in class. It will be a great study guide for the semester.

For this first posting, I will leave off with an excerpt from Anne Truitt's Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1974-79) :

"This winter is bringing me to a confrontation with the truth behind truths, like the color I know to lie just beyond color. I remember how startled I was when, early in 1962, I realized that I was becoming obsessed with color as having meaning...in itself, as holding meaning all on its own. As I worked...I slowly came to realize that what I was actually trying to do was to take paintings off the wall, to set color free in three dimensions for its own sake...as if in some mysterious way I felt myself to be color..."