More background on competing histories of color harmony, and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2.Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebookGoethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Project Gutenberg ebookSchopenhauer's On Vision and Colors, 1816, AbeBooksSpinal Tap, Jazz Odyssey, 1984Send us a text
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Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs
Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perceptionColour Literacy Project: ResourcesScience How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was PinkMartin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): CyanometerColor categories in thought and language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press, New York: 1997Encyclopedia of Color Science and technology (UC Irvine): World Color SurveySpace.com: ParsecSend us a text
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A Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Project
Sharing a project I designed based upon Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's color methodologies. Try it for yourself, or with a class.Link to project description (Google Doc):Color Project: Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Link to video of presentation on Gartside and Vanderpoel's methodologies (on Vimeo):MCAD 2022 Faculty Biennial Forum Presentation by Ed CharbonneauSend us a text
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Color and Emotion
Color and Emotion, the topic of a 5-week online course I have designed and will be teaching in March/April 2025 for the Continuing Education Department of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.Color and Emotion: Experience and Aesthetic AwarenessOnline course, five weeksWednesday eveningsMarch 5 - April 9 (off March 19)7-9:30 pm CTCourse websiteMark Rothko at MoMAMichelangelo Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Doni Tondo, Uffizi GalleriesCoca-Cola and Santa ClausCrane bathroom tiles and fixturesAuntie Mame, 1958 Movie TrailerThe Velvet Underground, Who Loves the Sun, Loaded, 1970 Send us a text
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Camouflage
Welcome to Season 4! Lost and Found: Abbott Thayer and The Study of Camouflage. Martin Stevens Dazzle Camouflage. WikipediaNeuroanatomy, Retina. Navid Mahabadi and Yasir Al Khalil, NIH, Aug. 8, 2023The Confetti Illusion: This optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors. How does it work? Nicoletta Lanse, Live Science, May 19, 2021The ‘Confetti Illusion’ Makes Fruit Appear Riper Than It Really Is. Katharina Menne, Scientific American, Aug. 19, 2024 Send us a text
This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation, Fine Arts, and Creative Entrepreneurship Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)