The Color Coursebook - Osborne, Roy

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Résumé :
The Color Coursebook offers a complete manual for the study of color in art and design. In 35,000 words it reviews the most relevant information needed by artists and designers, including relationships between light sources, surfaces, and vision, color measurement and mixing, and illusory, functional, and symbolic aspects of color. In this teaching edition of Color Influencing Form, the theoretical text is supplemented by a 15,000-word appendix of practical assignments, offering a complete color module for universities, colleges, and schools. As a whole, the book creatively explores the interaction of color and form, to include figure-ground division, contour, texture, light-and-shade, opacity and transparency of form, and perspective of color, detail, and shape....

Biographie:
ROY OSBORNE is an artist, educator, and writer on color. After publishing Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists, in 1980, he became one of Britain's leading color theorists, lecturing and teaching at over 200 art institutions worldwide. His other publications include Renaissance Colour Symbolism: Primary Sources and Books on Colour 1495-2025: History and Bibliography. In 2003 he was awarded the first Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain), and in 2019 was awarded the first Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association (AIC CADE)....

Sommaire:
The Color Coursebook offers a complete manual for the study of color in art and design. In 35,000 words it reviews the most relevant information needed by artists and designers, including relationships between light sources, surfaces, and vision, color measurement and mixing, and illusory, functional, and symbolic aspects of color. In this teaching edition of Color Influencing Form, the theoretical text is supplemented by a 15,000-word appendix of practical assignments, offering a complete color module for universities, colleges, and schools. As a whole, the book creatively explores the interaction of color and form, to include figure-ground division, contour, texture, light-and-shade, opacity and transparency of form, and perspective of color, detail, and shape....