Color Harmonies

Name: Color Harmonies
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ISBN: 9780226281957

ISBN-10: 0226281957

ISBN-13: 9780226281957

Edition: 1993

Authors: Augusto Garau, Nicola Bruno, Rudolf Arnheim

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Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. Garau, a painter who teaches the psychology of form, pays particular attention to the way colors behave when organized in patterns. His theory of color combination addresses two principal compositional elements: the relations between figure and ground and the phenomenon of transparency. Garau meticulously analyzes the use of…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 100
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword



Preliminary Note


Introduction



Juxtaposing a Pure Color to a Mixture That Contains That Color



Complete Inversion



Partial Inversion



Shared Dominant



Shared Subordinate



Figural Unity and Chromatic Unity



Applications in Painting



Examples of Chromatic Juxtapositions in Pictorial Works by Cezanne, Picasso, and Matisse



Complete Transparency in the Perception of Colored Displays



An Anomalous Case of Perceptual Transparency


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