Go BackArch. 207, Winter 1980 – Seminar class on Geometry and Color: Preliminary State of Discussing the Color Problematic of the “Nameless Quality”
01/01/198038-page paper on “An attempt to discuss the possibility of establishing properties, rules and process-algorithms for the color problematic of the nameless quality”: 1. Introductory Remarks; 2. The Phenomenon; 3. The Color Problem in General; 4. An Approach to Establish a General Model of Explaining the Phenomenon in Terms of Color; 5. Relative Amount and Hierarchy of Colors; 6. Contrast; 7. Tonal Contrast; 8. Brilliance; 9. Color Contrast Including Complementary Colors; 10. Natural Embedding/ Opposition Flecks; 11. Uneven Field; 12. Roughness; 13. Tectonic; 14. Boundaries and Hairlines; 15. The Bridging – Connectedness of colors to each other (Nili’s rule); 16. Families of Color; 17. The Process; 18. Concluding with the explanation of the concept of having an overall color vision to work with and develop.
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