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The Art of Color-Music
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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 colormusic 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 Mondrian
the 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
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Color field painter
color placement is clearly akin
to musical composition
each color possesses a pitch
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Colors can be placed at higher
and lower pitches and "can be
composed like chords across
the spectrum."
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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.
RIMINGTONS COLOR ORGAN
Rimington (born 1850s)
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."
LISTEN TO ISLE OF THE DEAD : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdXPiqeyFtQ
Arnold Bocklin: Isle of the Dead
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
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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
Red, Yellow, Blue
Orange, Green, Violet
• Three colors equally spaced on the color
wheel.
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, redviolet, yellowgreen, yelloworange, 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, redviolet, 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.
SPLITCOMPLEMENTARY:
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.