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The Moral Power of the Arts
• The experiences of color and music have always been closely intertwined.
• color and music: possess inherent moral powers to influence their viewers and listeners for better or for worse. (Greeks through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance)
Multimedia and Health
• Recent studies of epilepsy concur that some types of seizures can be triggered by the color-music patterns of video games and animated cartoons
The Link Between Colors and Sound: Composers
• Composers liked to relate colors psychology to their
music
Some described their dramatic intentions with
decorative phrases: "More pink here," "This is too black," "I
want it all blue." Beethoven is reported to have
referred to B minor as the black key. Some associated the color of sunlight with the key of C major and red with
the note F#.
The Link Between Colors and Sound: Artists
• Piet Mondrianthe city grid of Manhattan, and the boogie woogie music to which Mondrian loved to dance.
“Bands of stuttering chromatic pulses, paths of red, yellow, and blue interrupted by light gray suggest the city's grid and the movement of traffic, while the disconnected vibration of colors evokes the syncopation of jazz and the blinking electric lights of Broadway.”
Syncopation: Music. A shift of accent in a passage or composition that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Kenneth Noland
• Color field painter• color placement is clearly akin to
musical composition• each color possesses a pitch
• Colors can be placed at higher and lower pitches and "can be composed like chords across the spectrum."
• Colors can also be used in conjunction with each other like major and minor chords, and repeated in varying ways to create visual counterpoint.
Counterpoint: in a piece of music, a melodic line or part that is sung or played at the same time as another
Heat
Color-Music in Psychology
• Color-music has been used by psychologists as a type of moving Rorschach test.
• used with post-WWII veterans suffering from depression and post-traumatic shock
• Aurotone films: abstract forms in pastel colors set to organ music and the singing of Bing Crosby
• The ancient Greeks were the first to construct a scale of colours divided into seven parts, on the analogy of the seven musical notes and the seven known planets.
• Aristotle's theory of color: different colors were associated with various tonal intervals in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• André Félibien, in 1666, was the first to establish yellow, red and blue as the basis of a new color system.
Newton 1672 associated tonal intervals with the color bands of the spectrum,
Isaac Newton
• relationship between color and musical intervals
• People created devices that looked very similar to organs and as they played their keyboards beautiful combinations and harmonies of color were projected through the audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARiIfbnHDA
circle of fifths: it was a thought-out system based on Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks.
Art and Music
Anonymous
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Fausto Zonaro (1854-1929): Greek girl with bagpipe (year unknown)
Pablo Picasso: The Old Guitarist (1903)
Miami Children's Museum, 2007
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Song Inspired by Visual Arts
My Chemical Romance inspired by painting
Saturday, February 17 2007, 12:00pm EST
By Daniel Kilkelly, Entertainment Reporter
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has revealed that many of the songs on the group's latest album were inspired by a spooky painting.
The band moved into Paramour Mansion - which is believed to be haunted - while recording The Black Parade. Way stumbled across a piece of artwork during his stay which gave him the idea for a number of new tracks.
"I had found this painting called March Of The Saints in this dungeon bathroom in the house and [I] thought about processions, Joan Of Arc, stuff from childhood, all this Catholic guilt and doubt," Gerard told WENN. "I started investigating that and soon saw patterns in the songs."
Arnold Bocklin: Isle of the Dead
LISTEN TO ISLE OF THE DEAD : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdXPiqeyFtQ
Art by Musicians
"Drummers"
(Jerry Garcia)
"Exchange of Rings"
(John Lennon)
"Hat Man"
(Ringo Starr)
"Luck Be A Lady Tonight"
(Frank Sinatra)
Color
Chapter 2
Color - Produced by light of various wavelengths, and when light strikes an object and reflects back to the eyes.
3 Properties of Color: (1) hue or tint, the color name, e.g., red, yellow, blue, etc.: (2) intensity, the brightness or dullness of a color, e.g., bright red or dull red; and (3) value, the lightness or darkness of a color.
Color schemes
• A set of colors that are used in an artwork, and the way they are combined in an artwork; sometimes called a palette
Monochromatic Colors
• Consisting of only a single color or hue; may include its tints and shades.
Picasso, The Tragedy 1903
Analogous (ə-năl'ə-gəs) • Any two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are closely
related.• Warm Colors: red, orange and yellow • Cool Colors: green, blue and violet
Lönngatan - Malmö, Sweden. Picasso, Self Portrait
Complementary colors
• Colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split complements
• One color plus the two colors that are on either side of its complement on the color wheel
Van Gogh, Night Cafe 1888 Sept
Color Triads
• Three colors equally spaced on the color wheel.
Red, Yellow, Blue
Orange, Green, Violet
Nature and Use of Color
• Pigment: Finely ground, colored powders that form paint when mixed with a binder.
• Binder- a material that holds together the grains of pigment
Examples:
linseed oil- oil
gum arabic- watercolor
acrylic polymer- acrylic
Solvent- controls the thickness or thinness of paint
Common solvents include water water color) turpentine and paint thinner (oil) (denatured) alcohol, acetone, lacquer thinner
Dyes
• Pigments that dissolve in liquid.. Dyes stain• Textile fibers and fabrics are typically dyed in vats
Magen Martin, Crystal
Magen Martin, Monk, batik on muslin Magen Martin, Nahil, batik on muslin
Primary colors red, yellow, and blue
Secondary colors orange, green, and violet
(two primary colors)
Tertiary colors red-orange, red-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange, blue-green and blue-violet
(a primary color with an adjacent secondary color)
RECAP
Red- emotional and active, danger, love, warmth, life
Blue- passive, soft, cool, watery
Yellow- warm, vibrant, the closest to light and warmth
Complementary colors are opposite on the color wheel. Red and green, yellow and violet, blue and orange, are
the three simple pairs of complementary colors.
These colors always go well with each other, hence the
term complimentary.
The tertiary colors are, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue violet, blue-green, and yellow-green.
A monochromatic color scheme is
based on a single color on the color
wheel. All colors can be chosen except yellow. Yellow can
be tinted but when it is shaded it turns
green.
A triadic color scheme is based on three colors
located equidistant from each other on the color wheel. There are two
colors between each color in this scheme. A color
tetrad is also a complementary color
scheme.
An analogous color scheme is based on three to five colors that are adjacent
(next to each other) on the color wheel.
SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY: A split-complementary color scheme is based on three colors - a key color and its two near
opposites.
TINT HUE SHADE
HUE: Hue is the name given to a color….red, blue, yellow ….
INTENSITY: Intensity is the relative brightness/dullness of a hue.
VALUE: Value is the relative lightness/darkness of a hue. A tint is a color that has been lightened by adding white to it. A shade
is a color that has been darkened by adding black to it.
