Color Theory and Applications

by Melissa Delaney

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Colour theory covers a long history from antiquity to modern times. It includes academic and scientific investigations into how we see and understand colour. It also includes practical applications for using colour in creative work. This learning resource covers the history of colour theory, how we see colour, and how to use colour systems to mix colour and create colour relationships.

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Publisher
Coalinga College
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Colour theory: understanding and working with colour
  7. Acknowledgement of Country
  8. About this book
  9. Versioning history
  10. Introduction: what is colour?
  11. 1: PART 1- A Brief History of Color
  12. 1.1: Introduction
  13. 1.2: History of Colour Theory
  14. 1.3: Cultural Interpretations
  15. 1.4: Colour Aesthetics
  16. 2: PART 2- The Visible Spectrum
  17. 2.1: Introduction
  18. 2.2: The Physics of Light and Colour
  19. 2.3: Colour in Chemistry
  20. 2.4: The Eye- How We See Colour
  21. 3: PART 3- Applications with Color
  22. 3.1: Introduction
  23. 3.2: Additive and Subtractive Colour
  24. 3.3: Colour Systems- Digital
  25. 3.4: Colour Systems- Printing
  26. 3.5: Colour Systems- Pigments and Dyes
  27. 3.6: Colour Wheels and Relationships
  28. 3.7: Color Terms
  29. 4: PART 4- Color in Modern and Contemporary Art
  30. 4.1: Impressionism
  31. 4.2: Post-Impressionism
  32. 4.3: Fauvism + Expressionism
  33. 4.4: Mark Rothko
  34. 4.4.1: No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960
  35. 4.4.2: No. 3/No. 13
  36. 4.4.3: The Case for Mark Rothko
  37. 4.4.4: Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
  38. 4.4.5: Restoring Rothko
  39. 4.5: Color Field (1950s-1960s)
  40. 4.6: Barnett Newman
  41. 4.6.1: Onement, I
  42. 4.6.2: Barnett Newman at MoMA
  43. 4.6.3: The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
  44. 4.6.4: Representation and abstraction- looking at Millais and Newman
  45. 4.7: Op Art (1960s – 1970s)
  46. 4.8: Tessellations
  47. 4.8.1: Exercises
  48. 4.9: Kinetic Art (1950s – 1960s)
  49. 4.10: Global Concerns
  50. 4.10.1: Global cultures (1980 - now)
  51. 4.10.1.1: A beginner's guide
  52. 4.10.1.2: Appropriation and ideological critique
  53. 4.10.1.3: Identity and the body
  54. 4.10.1.4: Banality and Kitsch
  55. 4.10.1.5: Ritual, spirituality, and transcendence
  56. 4.10.1.6: Histories, real and imagined
  57. 4.11: Yayoi Kusama
  58. 4.11.1: Narcissus Garden
  59. 4.11.2: Yayoi Kusama (Tate)
  60. 5: Digital Technology and Art of the 21st Century
  61. Back Matter
  62. Index
  63. Glossary
  64. Detailed Licensing