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..."
I'll share part of my first journal entry and just say I'm looking forward to the class:
ReplyDeleteColor is:
Complex, challenging, and ever changing;
Omnipresent, obtuse, and ordinary;
Luscious and lovely;
Oooooh, so frustrating, and yet….
Required, rowdy, and readily able to shift a mood.
Color communicates.
Does water have color or does it only have color in relation to what surrounds it?
ReplyDeleteTheresa thats a really good question. I would like to know the answer to that as well.
ReplyDeleteDear All,
ReplyDeleteI found a really good book on COLOR THEORY, on amazon... Color Theory Made Simple by Jim Ames... I will bring to the next class.
Theresa