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The color of the films

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment

Claude Monet

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Adding and Subtracting Color

If you've ever played around with color on any computer program, you’ve probably seen a module that listed RGB or CMYK colors with some numbers next to the letters. Ever wondered what those letters mean?

CMYK 

CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black). Those also happen to be the colors listed on your ink cartridges for your printer. That’s no coincidence. CMYK is the subtractive color model. It’s called that because you have to subtract colors to get to white. That means the opposite is true -- the more colors you add, the closer you get to black.  Think about printing a piece of paper. When you first put a sheet in the printer, you're typically printing on a white piece of paper. By adding color, you're blocking the white wavelengths from getting through. Then, let's say you were to put that printed piece of paper back in the printer, and print something on it again. You'll notice the areas that have been printed on twice tend to colors closer to black. I find it easier to think about CMYK in terms of its corresponding numbers. CMYK works on a scale of 0 to 100. If C=100, M=100, Y=100, and K=100, you end up with a black color. But, if all four colors equal 0, you end up with true white. 

RGB 

RGB color models, on the other hand, are designed for electronic displays, including computers. RGB stands for Red, Green, Blue, and is based on the additive color model of light waves. This means, the more color you add, the closer you get towards white. For computers, RGB is created using scales from 0 to 255. So, black would be R=0, G=0, and B=0. White would be R=255, G=255, and B=255.  When you're creating color on a computer, your color module will usually list both RGB and CMYK numbers. In practice you can use either one to find colors, and the other color model will adjust accordingly. However, many web programs will only give you the RGB values or a HEX code (the code assigned to color for CSS and HTML). So, if you're designing digital images, RGB is probably your best bet for choosing colors.

Written by Bethany Cartwright | @bhopecart

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelFN5rxlwA)

Installation of the Sol LeWitt room

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When the eye sees a colour it is immediately excited and it is its nature, spontaneously and of necessity, at once to produce another, which with the original colour, comprehends the whole chromatic scale.

— Goethe, Theory of Colours

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Il Trattato dei colori Kandinsky

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The first season profiled illustrator Christoph Niemann, Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, stage designer Es Devlin, architect Bjarke Ingels, automotive designer Ralph Gilles, graphic designer Paula Scher, photographer Platon, and interior designer Ilse Crawford.