loving colours
Colorsmagazine.com is the online presence of COLORS, a quarterly magazine that focuses on cultural topics from around the world.
As a ‘magazine about the rest of the world’, internet is vital for COLORS as the most effective way to reach those global readers who otherwise might not find it.
The latest issue (#68) is about Amazon.
They were recntly promoting the Colors Notebook, The first COLORS magazine, written, illustrated and edited by you.
Krysztof Kieslowski’s film “BLUE“, made same as Jarman’s Blue film, year 1993.
The use of blue imagery in the film is, paradoxically, the most elemental and most abstract of the colors in the trilogy. Indeed, blue is the color associated with grief. However, Kieslowski uses suffering as a means to illustrate the theme of cathartic liberation. Continue reading ‘Blue - Kieslowski’
Blue (1993) directed by Derek Jarman
The film is Derek Jarman’s last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman describes his life and vision.
The screen of this movie remains plain and unchanging during its 72 minutes. Over the blue surface of the screen, the voices of four actors, close friends of the director, the speech of the director himself, the sound effects and the music narrate Derek Jarman’s experience with the AIDS virus, alternating the description of the progress of the virus with deep considerations on poetry, art and life. He succumbed some months later. Continue reading ‘Blue - Derek Jarman’
Pupas, just a link for now. I don’t have the time to read the whole thing, but it sounds interesting. Should we post it in news? tags BLUE, CHROMO FOOD, PERCEPTIONS… etc…
[Zoomed-in still from Color Code, Flowers]
Martin Wattenberg is the promoter of the Color Code project, which brings together some 33,000 English words arranged according to colours associated with their meaning, in order to create a map of colour and language. ‘Patches’ on the map identify categories, e.g. flowers. Try and play with it, it’s fun!
[Olaf Eliasson, The Weather Project (Tate Modern, London)]
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is well known in the UK mainly because of The Weather Project (Unilever Series, 2003-04), a vast installation which transformed the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in a mystical non-place invaded by the warm light of a large Continue reading ‘Intoxicatingly yellow’
At Su-En Butoh Company colour is always present as a part of the expression.
Looking forward to our co-operation. Project section is recommended.
Colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, white, etc. Colour derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light energy versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Continue reading ‘Colour symbolism and aspects’
concept: ‘In 1983 adidas introduced a totally original concept to the world of of sportswear - adicolor. Specially created all-white footwear models were presented alongside weatherproof and quickdrying markers. They allowed evey consumer to produce their own unique pair of training shoes and provided a mean of expression for individuality and personal style’.
Today adicolor returns in a sophisticated interpretation of the original concept.
[Sunset (South Texas, 6/21/03), 2003, Fluorescent lights, filters]
Extract from the Colour after Klein catalogue (2005, Black Dog Publishing, p. 82)
In work that is whimsical and visually complelling, yet highly considered, Spencer Finch explores the realms of perception and memory. Working across a variety of media including photography, drawing, painting, light installations and stained glass, Continue reading ‘Spencer Finch, chromo-memories’
Sensational Color - Kate Smith’s blog
‘Color is a “silent salesperson” and a major influencer for product purchases. Color instantaneously communicates a message about a brand or product color choice and color decisons for business should not be based on esthetics alone. As an educated professional color expert Kate Smith helps companies understand consumer’s reaction to colors based on pragmatic, tested information and select colors that clearly communicate an intended brand or product message’.
Pupas she is a Colour Consultant. Her website is a good source of info. Stay tuned.
Colorspeak - interactive experiment
‘We view the world through the web more than we ever have and colorspeak is an experiment to explore how we perceive and associate the colors of the so-called safe palette with words, sounds, people, emotions, and events in our own experience. ‘Colorspeak is all about collaboration - so please click on the pallette to begin and feel free to submit absolutely anything related to the color you choose - what you think of it, how you use it, things it brings to mind, or creative expression that compliments the color - anything you like. You may also the name the color and include personal information if you like. Your participation is appreciated’.
(via COLORE)
You know perfectly my perversion regarding organizing the wardrobe by colour.
Browsing the Net I came across this link to Color Matters, a website developed by Jill Morton, a self-dicted ‘Color Professor’. She has recently published an ebook called ‘Color Voodoo For Your Closet’. After having a look to the table of contents, I would be curious to see the book. What do you think?
Extract from Colour and Meaning. Art, Science and Symbolism, by John Gage (Thames & Hudson, 1999, pp. 55, 56)
Theories of harmony
Traditional theories of colour-harmony may be grouped roughly into three classes:
- those regarding the spectrum of white light as in some sense analogus to the musical scale, so that it could treated in a ‘musical’ way (Newtonian);
- those requiring the presence of all ‘primary’ colours in any harmonious assortment, often in a ‘complementary’ arrangement (as in Goethe’s theory);
- those regarding the value-content of hues as the primary determinant of their harmonious juxtaposition (as expressed in Ostwald’s colour-solid).
More recently, experimental psychologists have sought to ground theories of colour-harmony in the empirical of responses to single and paired colour-samples by a variety of subjects. The empirical work has done little either to substantiate any of the traditional systems, or to replace them; and yet it remains that harmony is still a very prominent concept among students of colour, and that behind several of the colour-systems currently in use among painters and designers, as well as art Continue reading ‘Synaesthesia and colour harmony’
eye for Colour is a visual feast that will alert the senses and stimulate the mind. Hands-on exhibits and interactive displays will help visitors to understand the science of colour and why we associate certain colours with particular moods. From the food that we eat to the political party we vote for, colour is everywhere.
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