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Lecture6.pdf
How do you feel today? Thoughts about the election?
Reminder: No sections meet Wed 11/11 School Holiday for Veteran’s Day
1C - Colloquium Artist Speaker Series, 5pm Thursday
Michelle Angela Ortiz
How We Use Color:
pattern, optical phenomena, and using color to give form and importance to
ideas
Slate, Why Democrats Are Blue and Republicans Are Red—and Why It’s the Opposite Everywhere Else
HBO's 'Insecure'/cinematographer Ava Berkofsky on lighting black skin
Some review…
What are the 3 visual properties of color?
1. Hue
2. Saturation (also known as Intensity)
3. Value
The two main color models are?
Additive Color Subtractive Color
Additive color is made from what?
What are its primaries?
RGB CMY(K)
Color: geographies, materials, focus,
attention
Tracey Moffatt, Fourth, 2001, photograph
Barbara Kruger, Installation at Mary Boone gallery, NYC, 1991, silkscreen
Katharina Gross, New Orleans, 2008, acrylic
Color in Use Expression, Meaning, Race, Pleasure
Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972, mixed media 12x8x3” Robbie Conal and Deborah Ross, Stop the Killing poster
David Hammons, How Ya Like Me Now?, 1988, installation
Laylah Ali, Untitled (Greenheads), 1999, gouache and pencil on paper
Kerry James Marshall, Lost Boys, 1993, collage and acrylic 104”x120”
Color in Film Photography is a hybrid process (additive+subtractive)
Cameras use light (additive/RGB) to register an image on film emulsion (subtractive material). Printing emulsion based
photographic prints uses both light and paper.
“Seeing Yosemite from a Saddle” (1932), hand-tinted b/w film
James Clerk Maxwell, Tartan Ribbon, 1861, first permanent color photograph https://vimeo.com/130333096
Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877, subtractive color photo
William Eggleston, Untitled (Car Wreck), from ‘Seventies Vol 2’ c1970, Untitled (Topiary Trees, Hollywood), 2000
Zoe Strauss, from 10 Years, 2001-2010
Color in Printing
Relief printing - raised surface prints
Hans Baldung, The Witches, 1510, Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks, printed in gray and black, 14 15/16 ×
10 5/16 in
Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1968-1970
Linoleum cut. 18 1/2 x 18 15/16 in.
Intaglio printing - recessed surface prints
^ original image is a bit misleading
In intaglio printing, the ink goes into the carved/etched space
(see image on right)
George Cruikshank, The Cholic, 1819, hand colored etching 8x10”
Flat Color, also known as ‘Spot Color’:
printing a solid, or ‘flat’ of a single color
Halftone dot
the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size, in shape or in spacing.
Sten+Lex, Totti-WOLF, 2010; and Lyon, 2010, printed material, stencil and paint, Rome, IT
4 color process printing, also known as ‘full color’, uses CMYK color separation with halftone patterns
Color in the Digital Environment
ink jet stochastic patternhalftone pattern
changes in hue - making monochrome
changes in saturation
changes in value
digital halftone analog halftone
5 min. break
then…Rainbows!
Greenpoint, Brooklyn October 1, 2011
Jiang Zhi, Rainbow #2, 2006, digitally manipulated c print (photo), 120x180cm
Camouflage
Andy Warhol, Self Portrait, 1986, acrylic and silkscreen 80x80
Motif a recurring theme, subject, idea; a distinctive and recurring
form, shape; a dominant idea or feature
Pattern A design or form that contains a repeated element
Max Ernst, The Hat Makes the Man,1920, pencil, ink, water color 14x18”
REve
Willie Cole, Reverse Evidence, 1990
Willie Cole, COMPLEMENTARY SOLES, SUITE, 2012 Screenprint edition, 25 X 18.75 IN. EA. published by HIGHPOINT EDITIONS
Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Tradition, 1977, sculpture/performance documentation
Eleanor Antin, Carving: 45 Years Later, 2017
Gustav Klimt, The Accomplishment, 1905, oil
Takashi Murakami, PO+KO Surrealism (green), 1999, acrylic on canvas and board, 110.25”x165.5”
MC Esher, Circle Limit 2, 1959, 5 color woodcut 16” diameter
Chris Ofili, Open, 1993, oil, polyresin, acrylic, elephant dung
Chris Ofili. Afrodizzia (Second Version), 1996.
Acrylic, oil, polyester resin, paper collage, glitter, map
pins, and elephant dung on linen. 96 x 72 inches.
Fred Tomaselli, New Jerusalem, 1998, leaves, photocollage, acrylic and resin on wood, 60”x60”
Ross Bleckner, Falling Birds, 1994, mixed media
Kim Dingle, United Shapes of America III (Maps of the US Drawn by Las Vegas Teenagers), 1984, oil on panel 48x60”
Carter Potter, unknown title, c.1995, film strips
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room-Love Forever, 1994 installation
Stephanie Syjuco, “Cargo Cults: Basket Woman” (2016), archival Epson pigment print, 40 in. x 30 in.
Cayetano Ferrer, Remnant Recomposition, 2014, casino carpet, seam tape, variable dimensions
Kelly Nipper, Interval (detail A & B), 2000, C-print 40x50” each
Jim Lambie, ZOBOP, 2000, site- specific installation with colored
vinyl tape
Linda Besemer, Fold #9 Section d’or, 1998, acrylic paint and curtain rod 48x72
George Legrady, Making Visible the Invisible, 2005-2014, Seattle Central
Library, 6 LCD Screens on glass wall, 45" x 24'
Lyle Ashton Harris (w/Thomas Allen Harris), Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera #3, 1994, unique Polaroid 24x20
Sister Corita Kent, My People, 1965, silkscreen approx 20x30”
Project 6: Pattern Drawing / Project - Create a pattern-based image of your choice and translate it into a digital or hand- done work.
OR
Potato Pattern Print - Use cut or carved potatoes to make a repeating pattern print on paper
You can do: A painting A drawing A print A collage A movie…. Whatever you like as long as PATTERN is a dominant theme
Things to think about with your pattern project:
• Line quality • Positive and negative space • Maximalism vs. minimalism (or both?) • Visual interest/hierarchy • Relief vs intaglio approach if you have means to
carve/print
Watch this if you want to make a pattern drawing by hand and have access to a copier or scanner:
You can make a drawing/painting/work with a strong pattern in it, something like this:
Louise Despont
