Photograph

“Yellow Wall in Palo Alto” painting: Photographs

01/01/1995

Oil Painting

Photograph of the oil painting on wooden panel.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Work of Art

Yellow Wall in Palo Alto, painting 1995

Personal Work of Art, Painting

Created by:

Christopher Alexander

Oil painting on wooden panel, 13"x20".

References

Scientific Research

Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties

Areas of focus:

Structure of Space

Guiding idea:

Centers and Fields of Centers

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...