Elective
Colour: Theory and Practical Applications
Chara Thanou
Theory: Colour theory, colour cycles, colour star, colour sphere, complementary colours, colour-light-texture, colour reality and colour effect, interaction, harmony, balance, symmetry, colour tonality. Colour harmonies. Colour contrasts. Afterimage – optical mixing. Colour and design. Colour and space. Synaesthesia – tone colour. Colour chords. Colour and multisensory aesthetics. Colour semiotics. Colour study in artists and art movements. Digital colours. Art workshop: The workshop will be held in parallel with the theory through colour exercises, colour syntheses, colour charts, colour themes regarding aesthetics of space, clothing and scenography. The assignments will be carried out individually or in groups by pigment mixing/digital processing/mockups/collage. In the end, students will present artistic proposals or a project of a public presentation of a team work, which will be accompanied by a theoretical work.