Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Color Theory

In Renoir Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Near the Lake, Girls at the Piano, The Theatre Box, Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Bathers, The Bohemian, Two Sisters, and Woman with a Parasol in a Garden) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the painting. Through these eleven stages of resolution, attention is called to the...

In Rousseau Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Henri Rousseau (Boy on the Rocks, Self-Portrait, Fight between A Tiger and A Bull, The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace, The Sleeping Gypsy, and Tiger in a Tropical Storm) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution"...

In Vermeer Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Johannes Vermeer (A Girl Asleep, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Portrait of a Young Woman, The Art of Painting, The Little Street, The Milkmaid, View of Delft, and Woman in Blue Reading a Letter) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the painting. Through these eleven stages of resolution, attention is called...

Foundations of Color by Jeff Davis provides a straightforward examination of the major topics of color theory. Written in a clear and concise style, this textbook presents the basic concepts of color in a logical order, with each chapter building on the next. The book employs a highly visual design with numerous diagrams that elegantly illustrate each color principle. The diagrams are paired with relevant examples of contemporary art that connect theory to application.

Foundations of Color has been written to be accessible by...

Fifty mandalas to color-fifty opportunities to relax and let the tensions of the day fade as you focus on symbols of nature and geometry. Let your analytical mind take a back seat as your creativity moves to the forefront. Just be yourself, relax, and enjoy the tranquility as you flow into the natural rhythm of coloring around the circle. JoDesigns is honored that you have chosen Coloring into Peace Mandalas.

When you finish coloring a design, please e-mail a file of what you have created from the black-and-white versions out of this book to: jodesigns365@gmail.com. Be sure to put the...

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was an artist, a member of the Bauhaus, and a refugee who fled with his family to the United States in 1933. Taking up a teaching position first at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and later, in 1949, at the Yale Art School, Albers became immenesly influential to a generation of artists as he engaged them in an interactive pedagogy, shaped by his exposure to the writings of gestalt psychologists, directed toward a holistic understanding of the dynamics of color. Albers's own work as an artist anticipated and in some ways influenced the op art movement, and...