Colours in Culture

See this site: informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

Thanks guys!

Thanks, class for a great final critique and for all your amazing energy throughout the semester. We didn’t have time for my usual student feedback so if anyone has any favorite or worst assignments (or any other suggestions for future color classes), please post as comment here or email me. Karen – thanks for the ice cream!!!! and for a fun Light Project.

Spring10 LIGHT Project

Copy-paste the link to your Light Project (use the address on the SET or ALBUM page) in the comment section here. Post it as soon as you have the pallet in the set. Project must be completed by 5/14. See full directions to project.
NOTE: Please put the NAME OF YOUR ARTIST on your set. I will add the picture of your pallet to your comment here.
CLICK ON PALLETS TO SEE EACH PROJECT.

Spring10 Reading7 – digital color

For the final reading choose one of these:
1. Becky Koenig. Color Workbook. Chapter 6: computer color
OR
2. Bruce Fraser et al. Real World Color Management. computers and color – Pages 51-69.
Comment about one of these readings is due by 5/11.
Here’s a video by digital media artist Cory Arcangel.

MakeUp Reading Comments

Here is the promised blog for late makeup readings:
* These comments will receive half credit. You can leave more than one.
* The specific reading must be identified eg: Reading 1, Introduction
* The comment must refer clearly to the content in the reading.
* All are due by 5/4. None will be accepted after that – no exceptions!
* Credit will only be given if all of the above apply.

Spring10 Reading6 – color & composition

Our sixth reading is from Becky Koenig, Color Workbook Chapter 10: Designing with Color. Comments are due by 4/27.
All Saints I, Wassily Kandinsky. Click here for more on the Russian avant-garde.

Spring10 Reading5

Our 5th reading is from Stephen Pentak and Richard Roth’s Color Basics. Chapter 3: color in context. This reading is in preparation for the upcoming Albers exercises – group experiments with color-aid paper investigating the changing nature of color. Comments about the reading are due by 4/13.

Since Nathan Oliveira’s show will be opening here this week, I thought I would post this interview from KQED. He will be speaking Tuesday 4/13, from 5-6pm in room 133. Reception will follow in the Thompson Gallery downstairs. In addition to your reading comments, feel free to comment on the lecture or color in the show. Painting majors should also check out these videos.

Spring10 Photo Option: Monet Project

This post is for students who chose photography for the Monet Project. Full directions are here (see 24 PHOTOS). Post a comment here with a link to your on-line set or album. Please write something about the location you chose. The first 6 photos are due Tuesday, 4/6. See syllabus for other due dates.
NOTE: PLEASE PUT ALL YOUR PHOTOS INTO ONE SINGLE SET (the first set posted here). Everything should be together – that way you don’t need to keep posting new comments. Thanks!

Spring10 Photo Option: saturation

This post is for students who chose photos for the Contrast of Saturation assignment:
Take a series of 12 photographs (must be original photographs) showing contrast of saturation, and post the link in a comment here. Photos should be well composed and show a clear contrast between high and low saturation. Due Tuesday, 4/6.

Spring10 Reading4

Our fourth reading is excerpts from Monet’s letters to his wife written while he was working on the Rouen Cathedral series of paintings. The reading is from Vivian Russell’s book, Monet’s Landscapes. Access to the reading is on the syllabus but for anyone wanting to look at the entire book with photos, Here is a link, from google books. Comments are due by 3/23.