My latest works, which focuses on
aspects of colour theory and geometry, functions as a complete rejection of the outside world.
We will explore the
basics of colour theory that you'll need to get your head around — the colour wheel, colour harmony and the context in which colours are used.
Three
streams of colour theory (colour attention, colour association and colour approach - avoidance) in interaction with heuristic processing theory provide consonant predictions and explanations for the underlying psychological processes.
Imagine if, in a first - person shooter, your gun jammed, and you couldn't keep killing Nazis unless you learned how to take your whole rifle apart and put it back together, which inexplicably required some
knowledge of colour theory.
As in many other works, the artist uses complementary colours like blue and orange to focus the viewer's attention, showing the
influence of the colour theory class he took under Josef Albers at Yale University.
Interaction of Color, his seminal account of over thirty
years of his colour theory teaching, was published by Yale University Press in 1963.
Over the next two decades, he produced a range of stunning colour - drenched canvases that secured his reputation as the greatest English
master of colour theory in painting.
A lovely introductory unit for Colour and Shape, I used with Y7 but could be used in KS2 - looking at all
elements of colour theory and shapes before studying De Stijl and Matisse Cutouts.
The patronage of Saidie Alder May (d 1951), a wealthy woman whom he met in 1927 as a fellow student of Hofmann, made it possible for him to dedicate himself to the
study of colour theory (especially that of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Mayan and Inca cultures, science, mathematics and philosophy.
Now that we've covered the
basics of colour theory, let's take a look at the meaning behind all six of the main primary and secondary colours of the famous colour wheel: