Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Color

  • Peter Max

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    Peter Max rose to fame at a pop artist and poster artist associated with the mass media image of the 1960’s psychedelic art movement. Max took his influences from the underground psychedelic concert posters and album art of the time, and the graphically simplified echoes of that art pioneered by Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser,…

  • Sergei Bongart

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    Sergei Bongart was a Russian painter who was born in the Ukraine, studied at the Russian Academy of Arts in Kiev, and went on to paint and study in Prague, Vienna and Munich. He emigrated to the U.S. in the middle of the 20th Century, lived, painted and taught in Idaho and then in California,…

  • Big Spanish Castle and
    e-Chalk color perception

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    Here are a couple of interesting diversions that dramatically illustrate the degree to which color perception is controlled by the effect of previous or adjacent colors. The first, Big Spanish Castle, is a simple, but dramatic and fun, color-based optical illusion. Based on the visual effects of complementary colors and the optical/brain phenomenon known as…

  • handprint : watercolors and
    watercolor painting

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    handprint is the personal site of Bruce MacEvoy. The home page displays an unlabeled group of eight graphic symbols reflecting entry points to the sections of the site, which are a rather bizarre amalgam of his personal interests, from literary experiments to essays on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, human evolution and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of…

  • Color Scheme Generator

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    Part of the WellStyled.com web design workshop, the functionality of this color scheme generator is primarily aimed at web designers, but this is fascinating and fun for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in color and color relationships. Click on the color wheel to choose a hue, choose a scheme (Contrast, Triad, Tetrad, etc) below…