{"id":26059,"date":"2019-09-14T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=26059"},"modified":"2019-09-14T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T14:19:54","slug":"the-art-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/the-art-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Color is what we see because of reflected light. Light\ncontains different wavelengths of energy that our eyes and brain\n&#8220;see&#8221; as different colors. When light hits an object, we see the\ncolored light that reflects off the object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors. With paints\nof just these three colors, artists can mix them to create all the other\ncolors. When artists mix pigments of the primary colors, they make secondary\ncolors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red + Blue = Purple<br>\nRed + Yellow = Orange<br>\nBlue + Yellow = Green<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that your computer screen also works by using\nthree primary colors? But here, since the colors are light from the monitor and\nnot paints, the three primaries are not the same. Instead, your computer screen\nmixes other colors from red, blue, and green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One important thing painters know: using complementary\ncolors\u2014the ones across from each other on the color wheel (red-green,\nblue-orange, and yellow-purple)\u2014make both colors seem brighter and more\nintense. They seem to vibrate and pop out at you, the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warm colors\u2014reds, yellows, oranges, and red-violets\u2014are\nthose of fire and the sun. They appear to project. Cool colors\u2014blues,\nblue-greens, and blue-violets\u2014are those of ice and the ocean. They appear to\nrecede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claude\nMonet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French artist Claude Monet liked to paint the same subject\nover and over again, at different times of day and in different types of\nweather. He painted Rouen cathedral in France some thirty times, but what\nfascinated him most was not the building\u2014it was, he said, the surrounding\natmosphere. Rather than quick studies of changing light effects, these\npictures, slowly reworked in the studio, are carefully considered explorations\nof color and mood:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Each painting uses Rouen Cathedral to\nrecord time (morning or late afternoon) and weather (sunlight or mist). Examine\nthe way Monet used color and texture: Can you tell from the shadows in the\ndoorways which painting might have been done in the morning and which in the\nafternoon? (Don&#8217;t forget that the sun rises in the east and these paintings\nshow the west fa\u00e7ade or front of the building.) &nbsp;How do the colors change\nin sunlight, fog, and mist?<\/li><li>Do you see any clear outlines? Is it\npossible to determine exactly where one surface ends and another begins? If\nline does not define the forms in this painting, what does?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Matisse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around\n1905 several artists, including Matisse, exhibited pictures in which heightened\ncolor was used to express a strong emotional response to nature. The painters\nwere called &#8220;<em>fauves<\/em>,&#8221; or wild beasts.\n&nbsp;The freshness and strength of the tones in&nbsp;<em>Open Window, Collioure<\/em>&nbsp;are typical of the fauves;\nMatisse&#8217;s contrasts are subtle, giving this work a sense of serenity and\nradiance. Show students this painting (second to last image in the slideshow)\nto answer the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Would you rather go sailing or stay in your cool room admiring\nthe view?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Describe the colors. How are they different from what you see in\nnature? What color would you usually use to color the ocean? Have you ever seen\na pink sea? (<em>Perhaps if it\u2019s reflecting a sunset\u2026<\/em>)<\/li><li>How big do you think this painting is? It\u2019s actually only 21 3\/4\nx 18 1\/8 inches. See how Matisse transformed the effect of a small canvas into\nexpansive pictorial space through the device of the open window and eye-popping\ncolor.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monet\npainted this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/content\/dam\/ngaweb\/Education\/learning-resources\/lessons-activities\/elements-of-art\/color-rouen-fade%20copy.jpg\">photograph of the west fa\u00e7ade of Rouen Cathedral<\/a>&nbsp;in Paris. He\npainted this shape at different times of day and all types of weather. Students\nwill select a time of day and type of weather and then color over this faded\nimage using appropriate hues in oil pastel (preferable to cover image, but\ncrayons could also be used).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What\ncolors show sunrises?<\/li><li>What\ncolors show fall?<\/li><li>What\ncolors show snowfall?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nUse\none or more photographs to explore how the same shape can show different colors\nat different times. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color is what we see because of reflected light. Light contains different wavelengths of energy that our eyes and brain &#8220;see&#8221; as different colors. When light hits an object, we see the colored light that reflects off the object. Red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors. With paints of just these three colors, artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26060,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions\/26060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}