Color Fields

Hungry Academy Lightning Talk

color field painting is some of the most experiential art that i've encountered, and i use it to inform my design on the web.

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1. working title: using my degree in art history Color Fields
4. Abstract Expressionism
6. No Me Gusta.
7. Post Painterly Abstraction
11. Mark Rothko aka my favorite artist
12. color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combination.
13. the effects of relative contrast and color saturation on the illusion of transparency
14. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of color or forms... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions -- tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on
15. Color Field painting? I mean, what is color? Painting has to do with a lot of things. Color is among the things it has to do with. It has to do with surface. It has to do with shape, It has to do with feelings which are more difficult to get at
20. It is almost impossible to see a color by itself and not interacting with its surroundings