Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Lutheran Germany

Newton -> the Scientific Revolution -> Enlightenment

French Revolution

Met with Johann Gottfried von Herder, ignition of an interest in Shakespeare

Friends with Friedrich Schiller

Weimer ClassicistsGoethe!

ANDY WARHOL

Color itself is a degree of darkness

light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of colour

Men prefer substituting a general theoretical view, or some system of explanation for the facts themselves...

!Verbs associated with Vision:

!-Separation

!-Contrast

!-Commixture

!-Union

!-Augmentation

!-Neutralization

!-Communication

!-Dissolution

!!!!!The eye sees no form. The eye sees light, shade and color, which together constitutes our vision. Using all three elements we are able to distinguish object from object. !!!color is a law of nature in relation with the sense of sight.

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Color could not exist without the eye !Colors attract our attention by the associations we make with them i.e. emotional associations !We create associations with colors to substances and objects !Counterparts essential to the production of color i.e. light/darkness, brightness/obscurity, light/absence of light You can make any hue or tint with the three primary colors: Red, Yellow, Blue ...with these three colors, the elementary doctrine of color is alone concerned !A lot of the color reception depends on how our audience will make sense of it. It is not wholly on us the painter. !for if the Newtonian doctrine was easily learnt, insurmountable difficulties presented themselves in its application. (Understanding colors is not easy) Our theory is perhaps more difficult to comprehend, but once known, all is accomplished, for it carries its application along with it. !Mathematicians are not fit to come up with a theory for color, neither are scientists nor writers, the only person fit to do so is the artist. !Color is for the eye and the mind which is what constitutes art. !

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Plus Side of the color Wheel

Yellow: Nature of brightness and has a serene, gay, and softly exciting character. Extremely liable to contamination.

Red-yellow: an impression for warmth and gladness.

A yellow-red cloth disturbs and enrages animals.

! The colors on the minus side produce a restless impression.

Blue: has a peculiar effect. As a hue it is powerful but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.

Red-Blue: Its exciting power is, however, of a different kind from that of the red-yellow. It may be said to disturb, rather than enliven. Lilac lively without gladness

Blue-Red: unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red would be intolerable. when it is used for dress, ribbons it is employed in a very attenuated and light state

Red. Prismatic origin of red. this color partly includes all the other colors. An impression of gravity and dignity, and at the same time of grace and attractiveness. the first in its dark deep state, the latter in its light attenuated tint

Green: distinctly grateful impression experienced from this color. If the two elementary colors are mixed in perfect equality so that neither predominates, the eye and the mind repose on the result of this junction as upon simple color. The beholder has neither the wish nor the power to imagine a state beyond it. hence for rooms to live in constantly, the green color is most generally selected.

Wheeling Colors

Jacob Christian Schaffer !

Limitations of the table format !

He gave blue, red, and yellow pride of place in his hierarchy, explaining how

these primary colors could be combined to create a multitude of

shades in between !

(1769)

Ignaz Schiffermller !

Viennesse butterfly expert

1775

1766 Moses Harris

English Naturalist !

Natural Systems of Colors. This particularly fine specimen was the British entomologists attempt to

explain the color interplay he saw in his own favorite kind of bugs,

flies:

First Plate in the theory of Color

!color wheels/

distorted seeing/ color blind landscapes

Goethes Color Coding

Spiritual import

Influenced: Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Rudolf Steiner.