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The Brilliant History of Color in Art

Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064290
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Brilliant History of Color in Art written by Victoria Finlay and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically acclaimed writer and popular journalist Victoria Finlay, who here takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on an unforgettable tour through the brilliant history of color in art. Written for newcomers to the subject and aspiring young artists alike, Finlay’s quest to uncover the origins and science of color will beguile readers of all ages with its warm and conversational style. Her rich narrative is illustrated in full color throughout with 166 major works of art—most from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Readers of this book will revel in a treasure trove of fun-filled facts and anecdotes. Were it not for Cleopatra, for instance, purple might not have become the royal color of the Western world. Without Napoleon, the black graphite pencil might never have found its way into the hands of Cézanne. Without mango-eating cows, the sunsets of Turner might have lost their shimmering glow. And were it not for the pigment cobalt blue, the halls of museums worldwide might still be filled with forged Vermeers. Red ocher, green earth, Indian yellow, lead white—no pigment from the artist’s broad and diverse palette escapes Finlay’s shrewd eye in this breathtaking exploration.

Color Science and the Visual Arts

Author : Roy S. Berns
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064819
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Color Science and the Visual Arts written by Roy S. Berns and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar.” What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and offers solutions to problems that occur when art is displayed, conserved, imaged, or reproduced. Berns writes for two types of audiences: museum professionals seeking explanations for common color-related issues and students in conservation, museum studies, and art history programs. The seven chapters in the book fall naturally into two sections: fundamentals, covering topics such as spectral measurements, metamerism, and color inconstancy; and applications, where artwork display, painting materials, and color reproduction are discussed. A unique feature of this book is the use of more than 200 images as its main medium of communication, employing color physics, color vision, and imaging science to produce visualizations throughout the pages. An annotated bibliography complements the main text with suggestions for further reading and more in-depth study of particular topics. Engaging, incisive, and absolutely critical for any scholar or student interested in color science, Color Science and the Visual Arts is sure to become a key reference for the entire field.

Color as Field

Author : Karen Wilkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300120233
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Color as Field written by Karen Wilkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is based on radiant, uninflected hues. Exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella, among others, these stunningly beautiful and impressively scaled paintings constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field offers a long-overdue reevaluation of this important aspect of American abstract painting. The authors examine how color field painting rejects the gestural, layered, and hyper-emotional approach typical of Willem de Kooning and his followers, yet at the same time develops and expands ideas about all-overness and the primacy of color posited by the work of other members of the abstract expressionist generation, such as Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. From the fresh historical standpoint of the 21st century, this fascinating reassessment ranges across the artists’ individual approaches and their commonalities, concluding with insights into the ongoing legacy of post-1970s color field painting among present-day artists.

The Elements of Color

Author : Johannes Itten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471289296
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Color written by Johannes Itten and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1970 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes color circles, spheres, and scales as well as suggested exercises.

Complete Color Charts for My Arts - Color Swatches Themes, Color Wheels, Image Inspired Color Palettes

Author : Artsy Betsy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781661558703
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Complete Color Charts for My Arts - Color Swatches Themes, Color Wheels, Image Inspired Color Palettes written by Artsy Betsy and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ To Preview Layouts, check the back cover of the book ★ With this book, you will have fun trying and testing your art supplies and creating some exceptional personalized themes and color combinations based on new inspirations, moods, images... You can mention each theme you created with its page number in the customizable table content, which will keep you more organized and makes it easy to find when you need it. TIP: Even the paper of this book is a premium quality, and thick enough, it's better to place a piece of cardboard paper under the page while coloring to prevent any eventual unwanted bleed through and indents. In this book, we have three different creative ways to swatch colors: Color Swatches Themes: ◆ Swatch out your markers, colored pencils and gel pens with these 48 colors blank boxes per page, perfect for any art sets. ◆ You can create your color themes based on your design style, your art supplies, different hues of each color and combinations, there is a blank page for each swatch page that allows you to test and try colors before referencing them in boxes or you can also take some free notes and do some sketches... ◆ These 1920 blank color boxes (48 boxes/page x 40 pages) are the perfect way to see the color quality of your art tools.. Color Wheels: ◆ Don't let the color wheel intimidate you, start playing with fun color combinations and practice more the color theory with 20 color wheels and 12 color boxes each. ◆ The color wheel is a chart representing the relationships between colors. It will serve you in many purposes as an artist, and you can use it to identify colors to mix and match and choose colors that go well together. ◆ It will help you identify harmonious color combinations and develop the appropriate color scheme. Image Inspired Color Palettes: ◆ If you love to find coloring inspirations in beautiful photos and images, this part is perfect for you! ◆ Nothing inspires more than an amazing picture, these color palettes will give you ideas and inspire unique astonishing color combinations that you may not have thought of otherwise. ◆ This part will enable you to catalog those combinations and apply them to your art.

Invisible Colors

Author : Gabrielle Decamous
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262038544
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Colors written by Gabrielle Decamous and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How art makes visible what had been invisible—the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics of the atomic age. The effects of radiation are invisible, but art can make it and its effects visible. Artwork created in response to the events of the nuclear era allow us to see them in a different way. In Invisible Colors, Gabrielle Decamous explores the atomic age from the perspective of the arts, investigating atomic-related art inspired by the work of Marie Curie, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the disaster at Fukushima, and other episodes in nuclear history. Decamous looks at the “Radium Literature” based on the work and life of Marie Curie; “A-Bomb literature” by Hibakusha (bomb survivor) artists from Nagasaki and Hiroshima; responses to the bombings by Western artists and writers; art from the irradiated landscapes of the Cold War—nuclear test sites and uranium mines, mainly in the Pacific and some African nations; and nuclear accidents in Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. She finds that the artistic voices of the East are often drowned out by those of the West. Hibakusha art and Japanese photographs of the bombing are little known in the West and were censored; poetry from the Marshall Islands and Moruroa is also largely unknown; Western theatrical and cinematic works focus on heroic scientists, military men, and the atomic mushroom cloud rather than the aftermath of the bombings. Emphasizing art by artists who were present at these nuclear events—the “global Hibakusha”—rather than those reacting at a distance, Decamous puts Eastern and Western art in dialogue, analyzing the aesthetics and the ethics of nuclear representation.

The Art of Eric Carle

Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984813404
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Eric Carle written by Eric Carle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay on how Carle creates his collages, and writings by Carle and his colleagues. Still, it is the artwork in the oversize volume that seizes the imagination. More than 60 of his full-color collage pictures are handsomely reproduced and serve as a statement of Carle's impressive talent. - Booklist

Mandala Wonders Color Art for Everyone

Author :
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781464754081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Mandala Wonders Color Art for Everyone written by and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Color Is the Sacred?

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789993
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book What Color Is the Sacred? written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in My Cocaine Museum,this book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious” in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history—a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe’s belief that Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich. Nietzsche once wrote, “So far, all that has given colour to existence still lacks a history.” With What Color Is the Sacred? Taussig has taken up that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we’ve come to expect from him.

Bright Earth

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226036281
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Bright Earth written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums. Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Color and Light

Author : James Gurney
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740797719
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Color and Light written by James Gurney and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other art books only give recipes for mixing colors or describe step-by-step painting techniques, *Color and Light* answers the questions that realist painters continually ask, such as: "What happens with sky colors at sunset?", "How do colors change with distance?", and "What makes a form look three-dimensional?" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light. He bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge for traditional and digital artists of all levels of experience.

True Colors

Author : Anthony Haden-Guest
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871137258
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book True Colors written by Anthony Haden-Guest and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colors covers the past three decades of the American art scene, a period during which the prevailing artistic fashion has shifted as often as the focus of the Whitney Biennial, when art and money, talent and celebrity have often been confused. During this period, figures such as Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, and Keith Haring have crossed over from the rarefied world of high art into popular culture, and art dealers, like Hollywood power agents, have often claimed as much attention as those they represented. Anthony Haden-Guest has moved within this world, known the players, and delivers here an authoritative and deliciously inside account.Focusing on the lives and personalities of the art world's main players, and with a sure critical component, Haden-Guest gives us vivid portraits of the period's key artists as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. He does justice as well to the machinations of those who have come to control the larger drama -- the dealers, collectors, and museum curators. Filled with incredible anecdotes, dramatically told stories, and subtle critical assessments, True Colors tells the story of the art world that we have never heard before.

Chromophobia

Author : David Batchelor
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890740
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Chromophobia written by David Batchelor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batchelor coins the term "chromophobia"--A fear of corruption or contamination through color--in a meditation on color in western culture. Batchelor analyzes the history of, and the motivations behind, chromophobia, from its beginnings through examples of nineteenth-century literature, twentieth-century architecture and film to Pop art, minimalism and the art and architecture of the present day. He argues that there is a tradition of resistance to colour in the West, exemplified by many attempts to purge color from art, literature and architecture. Batchelor seeks to analyze the motivations behind chromophobia, considering the work of writers and philosophers who have used color as a significant motif, and offering new interpretations of familiar texts and works of art.

The Secret Lives of Colour

Author : Kassia St Clair
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473630827
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Colour written by Kassia St Clair and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.

Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design

Author : George A. Agoston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540347348
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design written by George A. Agoston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book directly addresses a long-felt, unsatisfied need of modern color science - an appreciative and technically sound presentation of the principles and main offerings of colorimetry to artists and designers, written by one of them. With his unique blend of training and experience in engineering, with his lifelong interest and, latterly, career in art and art education, Dr. Agoston is unusually well prepared to convey the message of color science to art and design. His book fulfills the hopes I had when I first heard about him and his book. I foresee important and long-lasting impacts of this book, analogous to those of the epoch-making writings by earlier artist-scientists, such as Leonardo, Chevreul, Munsell, and Pope. Nearly all persons who have contributed to color science, recently as well as formerly, were attracted to the study of color by color in art. Use of objective or scientific methods did not result from any cold, detached attitude, but from the inherent difficulties of the problems concerning color and its use, by which they were intrigued. Modern education and experience has taught many people how to tackle difficult problems by use of scientific methods. Therefore - color science.

Chromatic Algorithms

Author : Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022600287X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Chromatic Algorithms written by Carolyn L. Kane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, we take for granted that our computer screens—and even our phones—will show us images in vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how it is produced or how it came about. Chromatic Algorithms reveals the fascinating history behind digital color, tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late 1960s and early ‘70s through to its appearance in commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated colors were—built with the massive postwar number-crunching machines, these first examples of “computer art” were so fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and the gradual closing of the experimental field in which computer artists had thrived. Even so, the gap between the bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the relationships among art, code, science, and media in the twenty-first century.

Artist Toolbox: Color

Author : Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1633224554
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Artist Toolbox: Color written by Walter Foster Creative Team and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects.