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The Fauve Landscape
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Exploding the palatte so colors are used as a means of expression beyond depiction.......2006-02-26
The painters collectively known as The Fauves (The Wild Beasts) were given the name they are known by as a form of derision. This is true of so many movements in art, politics, and religion that it is perfectly understandable. In 1905, Matiess, Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Camoin, Manguin, Van Dongen, Friesz, Braque, and Dufy presented an approach to painting that had the effect of a bomb on the culture of the time. It was a year that saw a great many changes and new approaches to art (such as Expressionism). However, the freedom of the color palette has had a lasting impact on painting even though the movement itself ended after only a few years. The artists all went on to other things, however, the boldness of the colors still impresses viewers.
The other aspect of the movement was the rather rough approach to line. There is little fine drawing and the paint has a seemingly careless application. Yet, it is all for effect rather than an actual rejection of technique. The smears, thick lines, and unbalanced shapes all provoke the viewer in ways that ask the viewer to ask questions. Maybe a better choice would be to say the artist demands the viewer take a stand in the way the accept or reject the painting.
The movement has never enjoyed the popularity of the Impressionist movement, but some of the images are absolutely unforgettable. Others do have Impressionistic qualities, but lack the naturalistic approach to light and color. Here things are pushed further and saturate the eye. The images deserve some penetrating observation. Notice the colors and what they contribute to the subject, the way the paint is applied. Even the way the image is framed inside the frame.
A fine book with good reproductions of fabulous images.
Great........1998-09-24
Not only "lavishly illustrated", but the reproductions are terrific! A joy to browse or study.
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Building on the achievements of Goethe in his Theory of Color, Steiner shows how color has an objective, moral affect on the feeling life, and even on the health and well-being of the observer.
Distinguishing between “image” and “luster” colors, Steiner lays the foundation for a practical technique for working with color that leads to a new direction in artistic creativity. This volume is the most comprehensive compilation in English of Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting, and art. Here is a valuable source of reference and study for anyone interested in a greater appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities.
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Age of the Consciousness Soul.......2000-10-08
Rudolf Steiner gave indications for the significance of color in human evolution. As a spiritual form of cosmic expression, art, embraces and propels humanity into the future. It is my intention as a photographer to share this stream of wisdom made flesh in art form for the benefit of all...
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Graphs, Colourings and the Four-Colour Theorem (Oxford Science Publications)
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The four-colour theorem is one of the famous problems of mathematics, that frustrated generations of mathematicians from its birth in 1852 to its solution (using substantial assistance from electronic computers) in 1976. The theorem asks whether four colours are sufficient to colour all conceivable maps, in such a way that countries with a common border are coloured with different colours. The book discusses various attempts to solve this problem, and some of the mathematics which developed out of these attempts. Much of this mathematics has developed a life of its own, and forms a fascinating part of the subject now known as graph theory. The book is designed to be self-contained, and develops all the graph-theoretical tools needed as it goes along. It includes all the elementary graph theory that should be included in an introduction to the subject, before concentrating on specific topics relevant to the four-colour problem. Part I covers basic graph theory, Euler's polyhedral formula, and the first published false `proof' of the four-colour theorem. Part II ranges widely through related topics, including map-colouring on surfaces with holes, the famous theorems of Kuratowski, Vizing, and Brooks, the conjectures of Hadwiger and Hajos, and much more besides. In Part III we return to the four-colour theorem, and study in detail the methods which finally cracked the problem.
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Happy Colours.......2007-05-31
Very impressed to find the book as described
either someone was very careful or it didn't get read more than once; either way I am glad.
Theory of Colours.......2006-01-15
Excellent
A fascinating introduction to Goethean science.......2000-08-05
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, probably the greatest of Germany's poets, was also an avid amateur scientist and displayed through his careful observations and his keen, what might now be called phenomenological, mind an ability to discern the depth of the phenomenon in question, in this case the origin of colours. In direct contradiction to Newton whose theory of colour formation, based on his earlier prism experiments and their interpretation, was the accepted theory of the time in all scientific circles and laymen alike, with one exception, that of painting and artistic use of colour.
Goethe, being fascinated by the colours generated from the prism conducted his own investigations and found to his great surprise that Newton's theory was, if not incorrect, but rather mechanical in nature and based on an "interpretation" of the phenomenon rather than the truth as it stands. Goethe through his investigations into natural phenomena gave rise to the idea of the archetypal phenomenon or Ur-phenomenon, in this case meaning the movement or active form present in the phenomenon which gives it its character rather than some static image such as a Darwinian ancestor. Goethe noted that it is possible to actually experience the fullness of the phenomenon ie the coming into being of the colours themselves and that the human being can not only theorise in the conventional sense of Kant but can in fact truly know the phenomenon as it is. Contemporary science as it also was then does not acknowledge such a possibility.
The book is basically a written account of experiments done by Goethe on the generation of colour in natural events and his own experiments to bring to the fore the ground of all colour generation. It displays great care in his observations and it gives a wide ranging explanation of colour in the sciences, the arts such as painting and also deals to some degree with the experience of colours in the physiological domain. It is all encompassing in its attempt to understand the colour phenomenon in all of its many incarnations. It is convincing in its comprehension of colours and yet at times leaves one dissatisfied because it lacks mathematical rigour or measurement that is characteristic of science today. This habitual way of thinking present in scientists is rather hard to dislodge even when the mind is open, the main reason for this being the hard edged practicality of such an approach.
I would think that Goethe's book can be looked at as an introduction to his way of doing science and as a first attempt to fathom the real depth of the phenomenon which is inherent in his approach and sorely lacking in "normal" science. Naturally, this does not mean scientists themselves haven't used similar approaches, the names of Faraday and his investigation of electromagnetism and Heisenberg in his description of the limitation induced by the scientific method to the investigation of natural processes, come to mind. It is the cutting down of the original "life" present in their investigations that is lacking today, perhaps a Goethean approach can lead back to the intensification of science that is needed.
Very cool..........1999-10-12
This was a book for a class I'm taking. It's very interesting. I totally recommend it.
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We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions and the conditions under which we see things? Distinguished scholar Barry Stroud investigates these and related questions in The Quest for Reality. In this long-awaited book, he examines what a person would have to do and believe in order to reach the conclusion that everyone's perceptions and beliefs about the color of things are "illusions" and do not accurately represent the way things are in the world as it is independently of us. Arguing that no such conclusion could be consistently reached, Stroud finds that the conditions of a successful unmasking of color cannot all be fulfilled. The discussion extends beyond color to present a serious challenge to many other philosophical attempts to discover the way things really are. A model of subtle, elegant, and rigorous philosophical writing, this study will attract a wide audience from all areas of philosophy.
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I am not writing.......2003-05-11
The book explores the reduction of colors to physics. The conclusion is that it is not possible to say that things are really colorless without knowledge of what color really is. As Stroud writes it, "you cannot [...] say that you are not talking without talking" (page 67). But, as he notes wisely, this does not mean that it is impossible for you not to talk. In the case of colors, the impossibility of the metaphysical reduction of colors does not imply that things are really colored nor imply that things are really colorless.
The book keeps its focus and does not go further. Or, at first, it seemed so to me. Because after finishing the book I realized that its title, "The Quest for Reality", is much more general. Perhaps the book intention is to show an example that reality---the world as it is independently of us---is out of our reach. But I am not sure, because the author rejects explicitly Kant's theory (page 196).
The book deserves full five stars, but I would only recommend it to someone interested in metaphysics.
At Last..........2001-11-18
This text reflects Stroud in top form. Clear. Direct. No nonsense. His methodological approach to philosophical inquiry is "descriptive" and quietist. He addresses several concerns in metaphysics: color perception, realism, reductionism, and subjectivism. The main strength of Quest is Stroud's rigorous identification of subjectivism as a serious philosophical problem. If you read one philosophy book written in the last five years, I would put this one at the top of the list. If you get no further in your reading than the Preface and Introduction (which would be a shame), that alone would delight and serve you well.
Could Colors Be Unreal?.......2001-10-23
The Quest for Reality is clearly and forcefully written, and poses important challenges to the varieties of color irrealism and color subjectivism it discusses. While I don't regard these challenges as uniformly successful, what Stroud says about these topics is engaging and fresh.
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Excellent color guide.......2006-09-20
This beautifully designed book covers all the basics and features good examples of works by contemporary artists. I highly recommend it for my painting students
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A practical guide to handling color graphics on the desktop from the scanning, creation and manipulation of images to processing from different color output devices. Whether you are using a Mac or PC, this is a handy book enabling you to achieve more professional results in color. Includes a CD-ROM of images. 224 pp., color illustrations. (C) 1998
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Sortez vos couleurs.......2004-01-30
On va en ligne, pour faire des photos, des graphiques, et des copies. Car l'ordinateur donne aux artistes les couleurs toujours voulues. Les images se copient fidelement, de l'ecran a l'imprimeuse. Les couleurs se montrent le mieux, surtout si le noir est le quatrieme encre d'impression et si les points sont elliptiques, sur les plaques, les papiers et les colorants de la haute qualite. Reussir a dessiner a l'aide de l'ordinateur, ca se voit par les exemples dans tout le livre. Quant a moi, ce sont tres bien faits les coups de brosse crayeux dans le portrait de la jeune fille, et les tetes et les terrains sculptes au style de l'ile de Paques.
Color, Interrupted.......2000-10-25
DIGITAL COLOUR IN GRAPHIC DESIGN works when drawing, painting, photoediting, and 3-D print the way you want. Because scanners and monitors work colors differently than desktop printers and offset presses, mapping can pass colors correctly along calibrated color handlers. Color management and matching systems can bring about accurately printed screen images. The 16.7 million digital palette prints best from 21-inch non-interlaced monitors onto dye sublimation desktop printers and calibrated offset presses working with black as a fourth process ink for better shadow density and overall contrast, with elliptical instead of round dots, and with quality colorants, paper and plates. Ken Pender gives striking examples, such as chalk brush icicles to his ice maiden portrait of his daughter, impasto sweeping brushstrokes to a cloned Photo CD image, and Easter Island type carving and sculpting to a polyhedron head and terrain. So the author is interesting to read along with Veruschka Gotz's COLOR AND TYPE FOR THE SCREEN, Steven Heller and Daniel Drennan's THE DIGITAL DESIGNER, Michael Leary et al.'s WEB DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO TYPOGRAPHY, and Michael J. Sullivan's MAKE YOUR SCANNER A GREAT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION TOOL.
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The foremost color problem identified by artists lies in the mixing of greens. They want to be able to mix grays, oranges, browns and violets of course, but first of all greens.
Our eyes are very sensitive to green and we can identify a vast range. Artists need access to this range if their work is to be at all realistic. Apart from a few standard premixed greens, the result is often very much trial and error.
This pocket sized book, in our 'Color Notes' series, offers the artist and craft worker instant access to a vast range of easily mixed, predictable greens. Using a simple step by step approach the reader is shown how to produce yellow-greens, blue-greens, bright, dull, vivid, opaque and transparent greens. Then how to make any of these lighter or darker. Not only is full information given on the mixing of the colors, but the book also offers a reference when seeking instant color guidance. Suitable for any media.
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Mixing Greens (Colour Notes) by Wilcox.......2007-03-10
This handy book is wonderful for getting a handle on the difficult matter of painting various greens in a landscape.
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Naming the Rainbow - Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture (Synthese Library)
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Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's
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Naming the Rainbow is the first extended study of this debate. The author describes and criticizes empirically and conceptually unified models of colour naming that relate basic colour terms directly to perceptual and ultimately to physiological facts, arguing that this strategy has overlooked the cognitive dimension of colour naming. He proposes a psychosemantics for basic colour terms which is sensitive to cultural difference and to the nature and structure of non-linguistic experience.
Audience: Contemporary colour naming research is radically interdisciplinary and
Naming the Rainbow will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists concerned with: biological constraints on cognition and categorization; problems inherent in cross-cultural and in interdisciplinary science; the nature and extent of cultural relativism.
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The Last Cream Bun
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