Colour+in+Art

=Give Your Eyes the Time of Their Lives!= =Exploring Colour: Victor Vasarely and Wassily Kandinsky... and Mrs Nyhof=
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 * ...to this!** ||
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The Making of a Painting....
|| Over the next 3 weeks... Join artist Mrs Nyhof to make a painting and discover how an artist thinks.. . || **Talking Paint....** Intensity, hue, tint, shade, transparency, glaze, contrast, gouache, opaqueness, primary, complementary, analogous, saturation, monochrome, polychrome... || The Artist's Journal || **Day 1**: The first thin layer of colour glaze on the canvas. Track the Workshop here || Left to dry... || The journey in photographs || In progress... || Paint washes **under the microscope** More microscope images **here** . = = ||
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 * Day 2 ...**
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=Exploring Colour: Victor Vasarely and Wassily Kandinsky= //Marc Positive// Victor Vasarely || //Color Study: Squares with Concentric Rings,1913// Wassily Kandinski ||
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=The Artists...=
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|| || =Op Artist Victor Vasarely= geometrical shapes,perspective drawing and special colour combinations, based on the ways our eye sees colour and our brain organizes information. . See some **Vasarely** artworks **[|here]** || . || =Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky= line and colour instead of the real world. shape. could hear colours as well as see them. . Some **Kandinsky** paintings **[|here]** - click on the thumbnails for full screen effect! || = = . //Composition IV// //Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)// Wassily Kandinsky, 1913 Explore this painting **[|here]** || . =Eye - Brain Trickery in the Flower-bed:= A ** Blue ** flower bed next to a ** Red **Flower bed givesan ** Orange ** tint **. ** **Why...?** Two colours side-by-side interact with one another and change the way we see them, especially when the two colours are //**complementary**// colours - pairs of colours opposite each other on the Colour Wheel. This colour "shifting" is called **//simultaneous contrast.//**
 * Born in Hungary, 1908-1997
 * Founder of Optical (Op) Art
 * Created the illusion of 3-D paintings by using simple
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 * Born in Russia, 1866-1944
 * Pioneer of Abstract Art - art which focuses on shape,
 * Famous for his simple composition and use of colour and
 * Believed colour, line and shape expressed an artist's feelings.
 * Suffered from //**synaethesia**//, a nerve disorder which meant he
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 * [|Wassily Kandinsky]** || [[image:kandinsky400.jpg width="290" height="339"]]
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 * Vasarely** and **Kandinsky** played with this idea in their paintings. ||

=It's all in the Mind's Eye:= Learning the Tricks: The Colour Wheel ==== ==== [|Make your own Colour Wheel]
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[|All About Colour] (Seniors) [|Carmine's Colour] (Juniors) || On different coloured backgrounds, colours which are the same appear quite different... **[|Experiment here]** || It looks red - but take it away and a green after -image magically appears - complements of the Colour Wheel! || The orange squares are all the same but see the brightness shift against different coloured backgrounds - Watch it almost shimmer against its complementary, blue! || // Vega-Nor, 1969: Victor Vasarely // Red - Yellow colours appear to advance towards you, Blue - Green colours fade into the distance. The result looks 3-D.
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**Draw and Colour: [|Lines that Move]**
|| //Duo-2, 1967//: //Victor Vasarely//

|| Constructing Colourcube-style illusions || Vasarely brought to life in colour-wheel 3D ||
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**[|Colorcube Illusions]** ===Visit these sites to give your eyes the time of their lives!=== ||  ||
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