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What is African Art? Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » What is African Art? Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent African Art What is African Art? Egungun font size: a a a What is African Art? Ndebele Homestead Any discussion of African art begs the question, What is African art? In the West, painting has enjoyed a privileged status both as an object and as the source of critical theory. In Africa, painting was an attribute of the applied arts or a means to decorate surfaces on sculpture, pottery, or architecture, such as on the walls of South African Ndebele homesteads. Beaded crown (ade ileke), Yoruba, 19th century, Nigeria. Painting has a secure place in settled communities, but sub-Saharan Africa’s history is one of prolonged migrations and complex settlement patterns. Useful objects, such as pots, mats, clothes, stools, headrests, and spiritually important artifacts ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/african3.html · 8.3k |
African Art Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » African Art Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent African Art What is African Art? Egungun font size: a a a African Art Earth, showing Africa, Europe, and Asia taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar insertion. The spacecraft was about 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made. The long, complex history of settlement within Africa, commencing with the emergence of homo sapiens in eastern Africa, has produced cultural diversity unlike that of any other continent. Africa is a vast landmass with a population of about 885 million people who speak more than 1,000 different languages, each linked to particular ethnic groups and communities. One cannot generalize about African art and culture. Egyptian, Sudanese, and Ethiopian art forms, responding to Mediterranean cultures, Christianity, and ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/african1.html · 10.8k |
Goethe's Color Theory Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Goethe's Color Theory Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent Newton Goethe font size: a a a Goethe's Color Theory Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the greatest poet, playwright, novelist and essayist in the German language – comparable to Shakespeare and Dante. Until Johann Wolfgang von Goethe came along, no one had questioned the validity of Newton’s ideas about light and color. Goethe was both a writer and a scientist. His 1,400-page treatise on color was published in 1810. According to Goethe: “That I am the only person in this century who has the right insight into the difficult science of colors, that is what I am rather proud of, and that is what gives me the feeling that I have outstripped many.” Because Goethe misinterprets some experiments, he incorrectly thinks that these experiments show Newton to ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/ch.html · 8.4k |
Color Theory | Causes of Color font size: a a a Related pages: Color Theory Color mixing Representations Systems Energy of color Do it Yourself Do it Yourself 2 A page from the "Causes of Color" exhibit... What were early studies of color? Color theory is a human construct. We need ways to define what we mean by color, and how colors can be ordered, related to each other, and adjusted to become new colors. Color theory attempts to meld together the facts we have about color in a way that gives us common ground to discuss and use colors. Early theories of color were pure speculation. Eventually, with more data at hand, the theories began to mirror and explain how the brain really perceives color. Ewald Hering (1834-1918) devised the first accurate theory of color vision. Color is a perception, a response of the brain to data received by the visual systems. Just as artificial flavors evoke a similar smell to real foods, or as artificial sugar stimulates our sense of sweetness, so different combinations of light can be perceived as the same "color" (see What is color?). What is real is that objects ... http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/1B.html · 11.3k |
Egungun Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Egungun Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent African Art What is African Art? Egungun font size: a a a Egungun An egungun costume. Although costumes are not formulaic, they tend to be patchworks or collages of brilliant color. Red is dominant among the southern Yoruba. The most widespread masquerade is the egungun of the Yoruba. Like all masquerades, the egungun is a multimedia performance designed to honor the dead, and a wide variety of masks and costumes are used to communicate with ancestral spirits. Ceremonies do not have a standardized format. Some masquerades impersonate the spirits of the recently departed, while in others the egungun entertain the community. The masker is not considered an actor, but rather the receptacle for a returning ancestral spirit; the spirit takes possession of the masker. Egungun ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/african-engungun.html · 8.7k |
Cultural Interaction Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Cultural Interaction Introduction Before 1900 20th & 21st cent Fauve colors Cultural interaction Textiles Kente Dufy's light Warhol's Marilyns African Cindy Sherman Mona Hatoum font size: a a a Cultural Interaction Late 19th- and early 20th-century Western art is characterized by bold rejections of naturalism and the depiction of local color. The Fauves and German Expressionists, prioritizing prismatic color within the pictorial vocabulary, asserted the autonomy of visual language. In doing this they were influenced both by modernity in Europe and by examples of non-Western art, particularly the arts of African and Oceania that were brought back to Western countries (Britain, France, Germany) as a result of the imperial policies of the great powers. African sculpture and masks showed Western artists (Gauguin, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Kirschner, ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/african2.html · 8.2k |
Credits: Key Sources & Contributors Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Credits: Key Sources & Contributors About Credits Citations Teacher's Guide Bibliography Press font size: a a a Credits: Key Sources & Contributors Key Sources Marge Livingstone is Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She studies vision using anatomy, physiology, and human perception. Livingstone has a special interest in how the eye and brain use color and luminance information. She is also involved in studies of dyslexia and visual processing. Her research and book provide the foundation for many of the insights presented in this exhibit on luminance and peripheral vision. Semir Zeki is professor of Neurobiology at UCL and co-head of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology. A Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the American Philosophical Society, he specializes in studying the visual brain. Recently, he has extended his work ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/about2.html · 13.0k |
Applying the Paint and the Technique of Color Modeling Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Applying the Paint and the Technique of Color Modeling Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent Tempera & oil The paints Appearance Optics font size: a a a Applying the Paint and the Technique of Color Modeling The artist’s choice of paint affects both the technique of painting and how well a painting endures over time. Egg tempera Wilton Diptych (detail), Unknown Artist, 1395-99 Egg tempera on wood Egg tempera The Wilson Diptych is a small folding altarpiece, which is presumed to have been commissioned by King Richard II of England for his private devotions. The king is portrayed kneeling in prayer and being presented by three Saints to the Virgin and Child. Although the identity of the artist is unknown, the use of egg tempera is associated with Italy and the style of the work is informed by Sienese art. On the other ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/to3.html · 19.9k |
Monet's Colors Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » Monet's Colors Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent font size: a a a Monet's Colors From the Haystack series, c. 1890-91. Meule, Effet de Neige, le Matin (Morning Snow Effect), 1891. From the Haystacks series, c. 1890-91. Until the 19th century, color was thought to be an intrinsic property of an object, like density or melting point. Oranges were intrinsically orange and lemons were intrinsically yellow. The French Impressionists and post-Impressionists change this conception. Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) work around 1890 demonstrates this development. Monet and his contemporaries begin to paint outdoors, as opposed to the traditional settings of a neutral studio environment. Thus, Monet’s series of haystacks are painted under different light conditions at different times of the day. He would rise before dawn, paint the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/dh.html · 8.0k |
What is Color? Webexhibits.org Chapters: Home Light, color and vision Color interactions: Simultaneous contrast Luminance and equiluminance Peripheral vision Museum shop About this exhibit www.webexhibits.org/colorart » What is Color? Introduction Color theory Paints African Art 19th cent 20th & 21st cent What is color? What happens in the eye? Calculating color font size: a a a What is Color? We perceive color just as we perceive taste. When we eat, our taste buds sense four attributes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Point at the foods below and distinguish their different taste attributes. Similarly, when we look at a scene, our visual nerves register color in terms of the attributes of color: the amount of green-or-red; the amount of blue-or-yellow; and the brightness. To see how colors are registered in terms of the attributes of color, point at the painting by Renoir below. Note that these attributes are opposites, like hot and cold. Color nerves sense green or red — but never both; and blue or yellow — but never both. Thus, we never see bluish-yellows or reddish- ... http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/color.html · 8.9k |
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