Chapter 6 Color 09 26 2012 Cai Guo Quian East River Manhattan Queens Project o Temporary Transient Rainbow Explosion art o Rainbow image Designed to heal after 9 11 Goddess Nu Wa sealed healed the sky Stones of color thrown across the heavens Circular symbol PI universe o Gunpowder Fleeting Transitory Momentary Qualities of life Drawing for Transient Rainbow o As a Chinese you are always involved in history it is an obligation I learned from my father who is art historian Cai Guo Qiang Cai Guo Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City China Cai was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 o The Mark of 921 o 90 second seismic wave recorded on 921 o Taichung Taiwan 2000 Gun powder The power to ward off evil Impact from the sound Physicality of the heat o Mystical propertiesGun powder in Chinese means fire medicine Used in alchemy the Taoists discovered it when they were looking for ways to preserve their longevity Borrowing Your Enemy s Arrow 1998 o Guo Qiang o The idea of using the strength of one s opponents to empower oneself o The arrows symbolize wound and pain but at the same time the boat is uplifted the feathers of the arrows enable it to take flight Head On o Berlin Germany Art doesn t have that much influence to shape things Sometimes what artists create helps people see other possibilities which gives them hope But art is nota tool for social transformation otherwise it would be the same as how communists in China used art for propaganda Color Wheel Color a direct function of light Spectrum band of colors resulting from sunlight passing through a prism Color Wheel o Primary Colors Red Yellow Blue o Secondary Colors Orange Green Violet Each primary or secondary color is a Hue Adding white to a Hue results in a Tint Adding black to a hue results in a shade How do we describe color Hue red blue yellow orange etc 12 hues in the color wheel Value pale blue dark green etc relative brightness or dullness Intensity Saturation Impact related to purity of color The Creation of Adam unrestored Michelangelo o Michelangelo s The Creation of Adam 1508 colors were dulled by centuries of dust smoke grease Restored to original palette artist s selected range of colors the colors were found to be more saturated bright and intense and thus more like a color palette we associate with cartoons and illustrations Color is a man element of art and as such color and the optical effects of color relationships have become elements to explore Analogous color schemes color groups closely placed on the color wheel and of similar color temperature Cooll Warm Gifford 1880 October in the Catskills Turner ish painter Jane Hammond Fallen 2005 ongoing Complementary Colors Opposites on the color wheel 3 basic sets o Orange Blue o Yellow Violet o Red Green Effect of simultaneous contrast Afterimage Leon Golub worked to create a sense of the tactile tension of events Visually feeling the explosiveness of the image Mercenaries III Leon Golub A Sunday on La Grande Jatta Georges Seurat Dots of Color o Chuck Close Pointillism Stanley Chuck Close Charles Searles Filas for Sale Local Color What we normally imagine things to be Arbitrary Color the artist selects a color that he sees or feels Pierre Bonnard The Terrace at Vemon o Claude Money Grainstack o Vincent van Gogh The night Caf o o I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity with reds and green everywhere there is a clash and contrast Van Gogh Class Notes 09 26 2012 Color When New York City s Museum of Modern Art closed for an extensive redesign and moved to temporary quarters across the river Cai Guo Qiang to celebrate the move with a famous explosion project Transient Rainbow a massive fireworks display that extended across the East River connecting Manhattan and Queens The rainbow is a sign of hope renewal and promise In Chinese mythology the rainbow is associated with the goddess Nu Wa who sealed the broken sky after a fight among the gods with stones of 7 different colors Basic Color Vocabulary Sunlight passed through a prism breaks into bands of different colors in what is known as the spectrum Color Wheel o Primary colors in this system are Red Yellow Blue o Secondary colors Orange Green Violet o Intermediate colors are a mixtures of a primary and a neighboring secondary Yellow Orange Blue Orange Subtractive process mixing all of the colors together Additive process color mixtures of refracted light Color is described first by reference to its hue as found on the color wheel There are 12 hues in the color wheel Intensity is a function of a color s relative brightness or dullness o One lowers the intensity of a hue by adding to it either gray or the hue opposite it on the color wheel Intensity may also be reduced by adding medium a liquid that makes paint easier to manipulate to the hue Palette the range of colors he preferred to use Color Schemes Colors can be employed by artists in different ways to achieve a wide variety of effects Analogous color schemes are those composed of hues that neighbor each other on the color wheel Such color schemes are often organized on the basis of color temperature Warm o Yellow o Orange o Red Fallen by Jane Hammond Romare Bearden She ba Mixture of cool and warm colors cause tension Complementary color schemes are compositions that employ hues that lie opposite each other on the color wheel Simultaneous contrast is due to the physiology of the eye The cells in the retina that respond to color can only register one complementary color at a time Cara Grande Illustrates how complementary colors can intensify each other Gerhard Richter 256 Farben 256 Colors Color interactions can also cause the retina to produce a spot of color where none exists The painting belongs to a series of color charts painted by the artist from the mid 1960s on La Chahut Georges Seurat Georges Seurat has tried to harmonize his complementary colors rather then create a scene of tension with them Pointillism uses small dots of pure color in a process o Sonia Delaunay Prismes Electriques Robert Delaunay Premier Disque Falas for Sale by Charles Searles Uses open palette in which he employs the entire range of hues in a wide variety of keys and intensities Color in Representational Art There are four different ways of using color in representational art o Local Color Is the color objects viewed close up in even lighting conditions Local color is the color we know o Perceptual color is opposite color we