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Colour in Painting 1. Philip Ball: Bright Earth – Art and the Invention of Colour 2. Johannes Itten: The Elements of Color – 7 types of colour harmony & contrast

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Page 1: Colour in Painting - York · PDF fileColour in Painting 1. Philip Ball: Bright Earth – Art and the Invention of Colour 2. Johannes Itten: The Elements of Color – 7 types of colour

Colour in Painting

1. Philip Ball: Bright Earth – Art and the Invention of Colour

2. Johannes Itten: The Elements of Color –7 types of colour harmony & contrast

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The Gate – Hans Hoffman (1960)

central question for Philip Ball:

How has the invention of new colour influenced the development of Art?

→ get Philip Ball worksheet on course webpage

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Johannes Itten (1888-1967)-painter, designer, teacher (http://www.johannes-itten.com/ )

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Space Composition, I[Raum Komposition I] –Itten (1944)

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Art of the Color (Kunst der Farbe)Itten

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Itten’s colour wheel

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Painting with Three Spots -Wassily Kandinsky(1914)

contrast of hue

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Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) -Wassily Kandinsky(1913)

(hue)

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The Black Feather Hat - Gustav Klimt (1910)

light/darkcontrast

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warm colours

cool colours

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cold/warmcontrast

Landscape - Cezanne

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Mounte Sainte Victoire – Cezanne (c. 1885)

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A red-violet juxtaposed to blue looks warm (left), while the same red-violet juxtaposed to red looks cool

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The narrow red bars advance toward the viewer, while the cooler blue recedes.

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complementary contrast

Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret- Delacroix

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Y-P: strongest value contrast

R-G: equal value contrast

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simultaneous contrast

Marilyn -Andy Warhol

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ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962 - 1964

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are the reds the same?

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simultaneous contrast also occurs with value contrast

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Portrait of Franz Marc – Macke (1910)

contrast of saturation

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Contrast of saturation: This is the degree of purity of the color, so it is possible to contrast a pure, intense color with a dull, diluted color.

There are four ways to dilute a color:

1. Tint (add white).2. Shade (add black).3. Add gray (heading toward neutrality)4. Add the complementary color

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Adding gray to a pure color demonstrates one way color can be desaturated. The grays in the corners of each pattern are the same neutral gray

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contrast of extension

Starry Night – Van Gogh (1889)

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relative areas of complementary colours for balance to the eye

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A red/green checkboard pattern looks static compared to a green field sprinkled with small red squares, illustrating one way to manipulate contrast of extension

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other harmonies:

monochromatic

Woman Darning -Vuillard

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analogous oradjacent

Orange and Yellow – Mark Rothko (1956)

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Head of a Man – Paul Klee