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Colour - lecture

Here are my notes from the lecture:

The design below was created by me and I love the gradient of the colours. This was created during a period where I was going through a lost of a loved one. I think my love for colour envolved during this time.

Emotions of blue

I think colour can have a great impact when it comes to emotional use as I know from experience.

Joan Miró - this is the colour of my dreams (1925)

Reflects the interest in dreams and the subconscious - ‘’ceci est la couleur de mes rêves’’ meaning this is the color of my dreams.

1923 - experiment on blind mice to see how they reacted with different light rays. They reacted to the colour blue which is at the end of the spectrum. The reason for this is because this is the colour that we see everyday (sky) and our body clock naturally reacts to this - morning and night.

Ultramarine - is a deep blue color pigment. Originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarinus meaning ‘’beyond the sea’’ as this was the pigment that was imported into Europe from mines in Afghanistan by Italian traders during the 14th and 15th centuries.

‘’Ultramarine blue is a glorious, lovely and absolutely perfect pigment beyond all the pigments. Illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all colours; one could not say anything about it, or do anything with it, that its quality would not surpass’’ - Cennino Cennini

Blue was seen as a luxury colour and here are some examples:

Mater Dolorosa

Giovanni Battista Salvi Sassoferrato

Johannes Vermeer

1820s - french ultramarine was created by Jean-Baptiste Guimet who was a French chemist.

Yves Klein, International Klein Blue (1957) - challenge was to preserve the luminosity that he considered the magic of the colour.

Electric Blue - 3.1% red, 57.3% green and 81.6% blue in RGB. In CMYK it is composed of 96.2% cyan, 29.8% magenta, 0% yellow and 18.4% black.

‘‘I could see a huge beam of projected light flooding up into infinity from the reactor. It was like a laser light, caused by ionisation of the air. It was light bluish, and it was very beautiful.’’ - Sasha Yuvchenko, in New Scientist (2004)

St Elmo’s Fire, electrical discharge phenomena - a luminous plasma which was created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption).

Film

Ryan Gander, On Night at the Museum, (2016) - blue is a colour which is important in Gander’s work as it represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art. The figures are a wide selection of post-war British art showing different styles and periods. Gander disrupts the role of the curator as a mediator between art and the public.As a viewer we are invited to look beyond traditional themes and histories and to consider new narratives and relationships.

The Blue of Distance

Andrea Solario, Crocifissione (1503)

Niccolo Dell’Abate, Moses Saved from the Water (1571)

Joachim Patenier, St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c.1600)

Functions of colours

Symbols can be abstract

Symbols can be colour

Kandinsky believed the following colours communicate the following qualities:

Yellow – warm, exciting, happy.

Blue – deep, peaceful, supernatural.

Green – peace, stillness, nature.

White – harmony, silence, cleanliness.

Black – grief, dark, unknown.Red – glowing, confidence, alive.

Orange – radiant, healthy, serious.

COLOUR TRENDS - I have a passion for interior and interior design, so I am always looking at inspiration, images, blogs and looking at what the industry are doing.

Pantone has announced that Living Coral is the 2019 color of the year.

ADVERTISING - colour that defines brand territories.

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Opinions of this lecture:

I really liked this lecture as I love colour. It was nice to go back to the history of colour and looking at examples that used the colour blue. I learn’t how the colour blue was seen as a luxury colour and precious. Colour is everywhere and plays an important part in our life.

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