Children color rainbows. Later on, maybe in eighth-grade general science, you "met" ROY G BIV. Today those colors—red, orange, yellow, green—have morphed into rouge, persimmon, turmeric, parsley. Yet, the mystery of how we recognize and designate any particular color endures. What science enables this extraordinary visual experience? What role does light play in our color perception? How do artists combine and manipulate hues to make their art? How have science and art historically used color to create design harmony or its opposite? We'll see beyond its sheer beauty and decorative properties into the effects color produces.
Jeremiah Patterson has taught painting and drawing for nearly thirty years as a professor of Foundation at Hartford Art School. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in numerous one-person and group shows. His work can be found in over 100 museums, private and corporate collections, including Connecticut's Florence Griswold Museum, and his still-life watercolors have been published in WATERCOLOR Magazine, Plein-Air Magazine, and American Watercolor.
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This course is made possible in part by the generosity of the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
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