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Project 3 - Color Poetry

The project involves creating a 20 x 20” non-objective painting that explores color relationships using the color wheel as inspiration. Students are encouraged to limit their use of visual vocabulary to non-objective shapes and to experiment with various color phenomena and relationships. The final critique is scheduled for May 2, alongside the submission of Sketchbook 3.

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Project 3 - Color Poetry

The project involves creating a 20 x 20” non-objective painting that explores color relationships using the color wheel as inspiration. Students are encouraged to limit their use of visual vocabulary to non-objective shapes and to experiment with various color phenomena and relationships. The final critique is scheduled for May 2, alongside the submission of Sketchbook 3.

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Project 3: Color Poetry

Objective: create a 20 x 20” painting illuminating color relationships


Due: final critique, May 2 (Sketchbook 3 is due the same day)

Left: Herbert Bayer, Color Intersection, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40”, 1969


Center: Alex Janvier, Morningstar, 418m², 1993
Right: Hilma af Klimt, Group IX/UW, The dove, no 2. 1915. Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 115.5 cm

In a 20 x 20” non-objective painting, take the format of the color wheel as a jumping-off point for
a creative and personal composition. Applying techniques and perspectives learned this
semester, how can you compose color on your canvas as a form of poetry?

In this project, limit your visual vocabulary to non-objective shapes and color relationships – no
representational imagery, symbols, or text. Experiment with the concept of a color wheel / color
diagram and see how you can play expressively with color relationships and color phenomena
through the formal language of intersections, overlaps, boundaries, and/or edges.

Think through your associations with color, and locate a starting point in your own attraction to a
color or a color sequence. Next consider how you can create a dynamic expression by drawing
on specific color relationships we’ve studied this semester.

Choose 2 or 3 themes among the following to explore:


●​ simultaneous contrast (small area of color inside big area of another color)
●​ color assimilation (fine lines / outlines)
●​ vibrating or vanishing boundaries
●​ advancing or receding colors
●​ transparency or opacity of color layers
●​ color texture via optical mixture, intermingling

Artists to explore: Hilma af Klint, Herbert Bayer, Alex Janvier, Gunta Stolzl, Anni Albers, Josef
Albers, WEB du Bois data portraits
Color relationships vocabulary round-up for planning your composition:

HUE / VALUE / CHROMA Color Relationships Color Symbolism (History +


(Visuality) Materiality)

Adjacent hues Vibrating edges Personal meanings / memory

Complementary hues Vanishing edges Cultural significance of hues

Neutrals Law of Addition Color texture (physical)

Value contrast Law of Subtraction Favorite color

Chroma contrast Separated Colors Least favorite color

Warmth or Coolness Color Assimilation History of your color(s) as


materials

Color ‘chords’ – triads or Optical Mixture


tetrads (3 or 4)

Monochrome Layering (transparency /


opacity)

Achromatic Luminescence

Iridescence

Color Texture (optical)

Lighting temperature

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