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Class 17-19 Discussion Questions

How can we make a colour less intense?

You can make color less intense by adding gray to the hue.

What are some other words for describing an intense colour? Are there any specific differences between these word’s meanings?

Some other words that are used to describe an intense color include ablaze, brilliant, deep, bold, bright, and more. These words describe certain characteristics of a color such as shine, richness of a color, and darker hues.

What does it mean to “reduce” a color?

A color is reduced by thinning out the color itself.

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Hilma af Klint

A Swedish artist known for her large-scale abstract paintings and botanical drawings. Her works combined many aspects of scientific illustration, geometry, and color theory, as evident in The Ten Largest (1907), a 10-canvas series representing the cycle of life. Like most abstract artists at the time, many of her works were inspired by Spiritism and Theosophy, although she was not part of the larger movement that consisted of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.

Bridget Riley

A British artist known for her singular Op Art paintings. Melding clean lines, color arrangements, and geometric precision she creates optically compelling visual effects, as seen in her work Cataract 3 (1967). Riley’s use of gradients and variations in tone stems from her admiration for the Pointillist Georges Seurat.

Jean Arp

A French-German artist and poet known as a founding member of Dadaism. His abstract collages, paintings, and sculptures of organic forms were motivated by an interest in harnessing unconscious thought and parodying established ideas. “A painting or sculpture not modeled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone,” he once remarked. “But it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.”

Diena Georgetti

A significant figure in Australian contemporary art, making paintings that cut through expectation since the outset of her career in the late 1980s. The recombination process of collage implicit to the making of Georgetti’s work enables the transporting and transposition of spirit and identity which, for the moment of that painting, she may adopt as her home, her place of commune and intermingling.

Holly Coulis

A Canadian artist who employs the simplicity of traditional genres as a framework for a complex exploration of the language of painting. Growing up in Northern Ontario in the 1970s, the artist remembers sitting in the backseat of a car and noticing that everything in her visual field was surrounded by lines. Now based in Athens, Georgia, Coulis’s geometric abstractions capture everyday items—fruit, vases, cats and cigarettes—in bold lines and blocks of colors that recall that early memory while also exploring the traditional still life.

Polly Apfelbaum

An American contemporary visual artist, who is primarily known for her colorful drawings, sculptures, and fabric floor pieces, which she refers to as "fallen paintings". She currently lives and works in New York City, New York.

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The interesting thing about the dress was that depending on the parts of the light spectrum that reflected on a persons eye they saw blue and black or white and gold. I personally saw white and gold.

Taylor Swift’s tweet—which described how while she saw it as blue and black, the whole thing left her “confused and scared"—was retweeted 111,134 times and liked 154,188 times.[10] Jaden Smith, Frankie Muniz, Demi Lovato, Mindy Kaling, and Justin Bieber agreed that the dress was blue and black, while Anna Kendrick, B. J. Novak, Katy Perry, Julianne Moore, and Sarah Hyland saw it as white and gold.[17] Kim Kardashian tweeted that she saw it as white and gold, while her husband Kanye West saw it as blue and black. Lucy Hale, Phoebe Tonkin, and Katie Nolan saw different colour schemes at different times. Lady Gaga described the dress as ”periwinkle and sand,“ while David Duchovny called it teal. 

DISCUSSION TOPIC for today - respond with a comment /repost with a comment

This viral “dress” may  seem like esoteric information, but this is a familiar example of just how confusing the apprehension of colour can be. What colours do you see the dress to be? Have you ever wondered if you how perceived the world was the same as others? I remember ruminating on this as a small child. How much is the way we see our individual physiology, or our cultural context, or, the context of the thing we are seeing? The light passing over it, reflection, what colour the thing is next to etc. What about the imaging technology this dress passed through… (I think it was photographed with a flash)…?

A little practical experiment you could do could be to photograph a couple of different white surfaces in your home with the lights on, or daylight, flash on, zooming in and out. The white surface is inherently unchanged - it is the same surface - but our perception of it transformed by the technology we used to capture it and the context or environment it is in.

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Contrasting objects and colors

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How is colour made?

Colors are made from minerals that have certain pigments or objects found in nature. For example, certain minerals give off a streak that is specific to the object in question. Material have a natural pigment that can be extracted to create painting colors.

What are warm and cool colours?

Generally warm colors are characterized as reds, yellows, and oranges and cool colors are usually generalized as greens, blues, and magentas. Warm colors are identified by intense vibrant colors that give off energy. Cool colors give off a mellow tone and are more relaxed in nature.

What are some of the effects of colour in our world, our experiences?

Color completely affects how we as individuals see the world from the sunset, to food, fashion, and our perception of people. Color plays a major role in how we shape the world and influences our emotions, moods, and more psychological aspects of ourselves as individuals.

How do we choose colours?

As previously stated, color plays a major part in influencing are state of mind, emotions, perspectives, etc. People gravitate towards colors that resonate with them, but the complexity of color comes from mixing. Fashion for example, people create outfits to match colors that go together well and fine different ways to exploit color to appeal to the individual. Color is very multifaceted and used in a multitude of ways.

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Homemade Color Wheel

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Final Compostions

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Blindfolded Painting Compositions 2

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Blindfolded Paintings Compositions 1

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Blindfolded Texture and Sensory Paintings

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Group Painting Questions 2, 4, 6

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Gray texture created from my black mixture

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Mixture of Black using multiple colors

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Second Group Assignment, adding texture to liquid substances

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Yesterday’s assignment using different brush strokes and our creativity

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