optical effects of color part 1

optical effects of color
part 1

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• Chevreul and Albers

• Other Major Colorists

• Impressionists/Pointillists

• Chevreul and Albers

from Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order fr… (Hardcover) by Rolf G. Kuehni

LINK color space and its divisions: chevreul's 72 hue circle (google books)

from Josef & Anni Albers Foundation

LINK josef & anni albers and the foundation

from gogemometry

LINK josef albers, homage to the square and the golden rectangle.

from coloraday february days 2010

LINK talking heads as figure/ground

from Wikipedia

LINK Michel Eugene Chevreul

• Other Major Color Theorists

from color vision & art

LINK goethe's color theory

from color systems

LINK j.w. von goethe

from sensational color

LINK how color theory came about: the theorists at-a-glance
sir isaac newton

from The Muser / Physics and Physiology of Color

LINK James Clerk Maxwell

LINK Thomas Young

LINK Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

from wondering mood

LINK colour wheel & colour systems timeline
colour wheels and colour systems by
• aron sigfrid forsius, finnish astronomer
• isaac newton, english physicist, mathematician, astronomer
• tobias mayer, german astronomer and mathematician
• moses harris, english entomologist and engraver
• michel eugène chevreul, chemist and director of carpet manufacturer, gobelin.
• johann wolfgang von goethe, german poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist
• phillip otto runge, german painter
• johannes itten, swiss painter, textile designer, teacher, writer
• ogden nicholas rood, american physicist
• RGB model