Blog Post Questions:
- Who is Joeseph Albers?
- Revolutionary artist who explains the relativity of color.
- What is his role in Color Theory?
- He defies the traditional understanding of color theory and emphasizes the application and practice of color before theory. A theory itself does not lead to the production of art— people do. And only people can tell and differentiate whether two colors are the same in a composition. It’s hard for our eyes to identify two blocks of yellow for example, if one is placed in a sea of blue and the other a sea of orange. We’d imagine the orange bordered yellow as warmer or “less intense and harder to see” compared to the yellow coated in bold blue.
- What did you discover in the article about Albers?
- I realize I applied some of this thinking into my own art indirectly for a long while, but did not realize it was application of color theory. I thought “ok, this hot saturated pink looks nice with this very light and desaturated purple, so then the latter color in turn almost looks like a grey.” I didn’t know how to describe this process and this article reminds me there’s a term for it, called color theory.
- What did you discover by clicking the embedded links?
- A series of books that further analyze the actions of color.
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