Visual Culture – Colour Theory Seminar

Colour Theory

Aristotle - light and colour, made contribution to secondary colours

Colours of extreme values

Renaissance: 

dye imported from Middle East
Lapis Lazuli
Da Vinci theory of colour
Colour - Wealth

Baroque:

Dramatic Use
Chiaroscuro
Painting influenced film makers
Caravaggio

Issac Newton:

He shone light through prism
Red, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Violet - Colour Spectrum

Hue Circle

Goethe

Physiological colours - effects on black and white

Physical effects on colours

Chemical Colours

General characteristics

Effects on colours with reference to Moral Associations

The Rose Of Temperance 

Schopenhauer and colour

On vision and colour - 1816

Wittgenstein "Remarks on Colour" - 1950

Joseph Albers - views that colour is deceiving, Associated with Bauhaus

Influenced painters Rothke and Barnett Newman

Colour and film: 

Hand Colouring - Serpentine Dance 

George Melies

Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound

Technicolor

Red - Blood, passion, David Lynch, Kubrick, William Eggleston

Yellow - Sun, Happiness, Gold, Van Gough, Warning, Exclusion, Stephen Soderbergh

Blue - Lapis Lazuli, Heavenly, Exotic, Neon, Wealth, Sea

Green - Nature, Fertility, Poison, Money

Orange - Amusement, Heat, Energy, Fire

White

Black

Colour scheme - opposite colours, colours next to each other

colours arranged evenly

complimentary pairs

Colours with change of narrative

Saturation

Colour and nostalga

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