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(via Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902))

A chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour: from simple wheels to multi-layered pyramids, from scientific systems to those based on the hues of human emotion.

Progressions

Bruno Fazzolari, Synesthesia painting 2016

#brunofazzolari

design-is-fine

Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27. Block-printed and dyed. Manufactured by Gillet et Fils, France. Via Cooper Hewitt

Altered Palette.

Admixture: Buff Titanium

Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

#ccacolor

Rose Quartz and Serenity

#pantone #2016 color of the year

"The blackest substance in existence: Vantablack, made of carbon nanotubes, absorbing 99.965% of visible light. The below aluminum foil has just a thin coating of it, but is so dark that it appears to eradicate all semblance of form or texture from the material."

#vantablack

Sister Corita Kent

Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an American Catholic nun, an artist, and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston.

She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service's annual "love" stamp.

#color socialjustice printmaking sistercoritakent

Lists and Manifestos

#color socialjustice

Ray Materson

While serving a 15-year prison sentence for drug-related crimes, he salvaged the thread of worn socks to create miniature tapestries depicting life outside prison walls and used needlepoint to stitch his life back together. Under such conditions, his art was both an escape and an act of courage.

#raymaterson embroidery