More background on competing histories of color harmony , and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2. Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebook Goethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Project Gutenberg ebook Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors, 1816, AbeBooks Spinal Tap, Jazz Odyssey , 1984 Send us a text...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception Colour Literacy Project: Resources Science How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was Pink Martin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): Cyanometer Color categories in thought and language , edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press, New York: 1997 Encyclopedia of Color Science and technology (UC Irvine): World Color Survey Space.com: Parsec Send us a text...
Mar 19, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Sharing a project I designed based upon Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's color methodologies. Try it for yourself, or with a class. Link to project description (Google Doc): Color Project: Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Link to video of presentation on Gartside and Vanderpoel's methodologies (on Vimeo): MCAD 2022 Faculty Biennial Forum Presentation by Ed Charbonneau Send us a text...
Feb 17, 2025•44 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Color and Emotion , the topic of a 5-week online course I have designed and will be teaching in March/April 2025 for the Continuing Education Department of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Color and Emotion: Experience and Aesthetic Awareness Online course, five weeks Wednesday evenings March 5 - April 9 (off March 19) 7-9:30 pm CT Course website Mark Rothko at MoMA Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Doni Tondo , Uffizi Galleries Coca-Cola and Santa Claus Crane bathroom tiles and...
Jan 20, 2025•46 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 4! Lost and Found: Abbott Thayer and The Study of Camouflage . Martin Stevens Dazzle Camouflage . Wikipedia Neuroanatomy, Retina . Navid Mahabadi and Yasir Al Khalil, NIH, Aug. 8, 2023 The Confetti Illusion: This optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors. How does it work? Nicoletta Lanse, Live Science, May 19, 2021 The ‘Confetti Illusion’ Makes Fruit Appear Riper Than It Really Is . Katharina Menne, Scientific American, Aug. 19, 2024 Send us a text...
Dec 16, 2024•51 min•Season 4Ep. 1
The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons. The Book of Colour Concepts , Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard, Taschen 2024 Color Theory: A Critical Introduction , Aaron Fine, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021 Magenta + Green = Blue? Instagram video reel Black Flag, TV Party , 1982 Send us a text...
Jun 11, 2024•59 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Interview with Gamma Jeanne; a departure from our more in-depth discussions of color theory. Jeanne's career as an artist spans over nine decades and includes working with acrylic paints in the 1940s and being at the center of department store design in the 1950s. Our conversation is wide-ranging as it addresses an artist's inner drive to create and form connections with people. Relevant links: The Terrazzo Jungle By Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker March 7, 2004 Victor Gruen; Gruen Associates So...
May 14, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 8
CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse Send us a text
Apr 08, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine). Luanne is a member of the Steering Committee of the global Colour Literacy Project and a visiting lecturer in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin. Cu...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 6
A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this episode here. Send us a text
Feb 13, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 5
A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here . Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing in mixed-media and oil painting. He has shown work locally in the Twin Cities and the greater metro area as well as regionally at venues throughout the Midwest. A graduate of St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts (RIP), He works out of Rock 9 Art Studio, located in the heart of the Creative Enterprise Zone. Jon lives on St. Paul’s East Side with his lovely...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage . Send us a text
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage . Send us a text...
Nov 14, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 2
I interview painter Jeremy Szopinski who is a good friend and longtime studio mate. For more information about the podcast and Jeremy's artworks, check out this website link . Send us a text
Oct 10, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 1
The final episode of Season 2; includes a correction to the Mary Gartside episode from Season 1. The first version of this episode erroneously stated a connection between Mary Gartside and the writing of Johann von Goethe. This new episode was recorded as a correction and published on April 24, 2023. Mary Gartside was a painter, teacher, and color theorist who lived in England from 1755-1819. More information about Gartside can be found at: The Winterthur Museum's Program in American Material Cu...
Apr 25, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Part one of a reading of an essay I am writing, Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction. Human color vision adapts to the changing environment in many ways. Pupils dilate and constrict in order to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. The lens either bunches up or flattens out to change its shape while focusing light wavelengths along the spectral band at different proximities to the retina. Cone cells, and other light sensitive cells, perform plus-or-minus gains in activity to achiev...
Mar 28, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme. Send us a text
Feb 28, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A review of a listener letter. Send us a text
Jan 24, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 6
A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes. Send us a text
Dec 27, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Part 3 of 3: The final installment, A New Canon, places the work of color theorists, Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in historical context so as to examine how their inclusion (and by extension, additional underrepresented color theorists and practitioners) may help us to understand how we may expand our contemporary approaches to color usage in all creative visual fields. Send us a text...
Nov 29, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Part 2 of 3. In this episode, I read the middle portion of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.) Abstract: This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Originating in metaphysics and philosophy in BCE Greece as a method to link the functioning of the five senses, including color vision, the concept entere...
Oct 25, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Part 1 of 3. In this episode, I read the beginning of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.) Abstract: This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Originating in metaphysics and philosophy in BCE Greece as a method to link the functioning of the five senses, including color vision, the concept entered int...
Sep 27, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2! This episode features a correction on the first episode of Season 1, followed by the continued investigation of how red, yellow, and blue became known widely as primary colors. Send us a text
Aug 29, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The final episode of Season 1. I explore whether or not there are more variations of color within the hue of green; more than those of the other hue color families. Thank you for listening to Season 1! Send us a text
Jan 18, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Discussion of the impact of telescopes on the development of color theory. Also linear & aerial perspective in relation to depth and space, and what any of that has to do with the newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope. Send us a text
Jan 11, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Discussion of the work of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and her book, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color , of 1903. Discussion centers on where I see her concepts in relation to those of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Send us a text
Jan 04, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Discussion of additive spectral color mixing and how our perception of purple may be the result of our minds experiencing a negative green . Send us a text
Dec 28, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Discussion of how afterimages occur when the cones of the retina tire and weaken due to overstimulation, allowing other cones to briefly play a more dominant role in vision, and how that lead to the establishment of complementary colors. Send us a text
Dec 21, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Discussion of Arthur Schopenhauer and Phillip Otto Runge's ideas about color vision and color harmonies, and how they may have impacted the teaching of color theory at the Bauhaus art school, in Germany in the early 20th Century. Send us a text
Dec 14, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Discussion of the speed of light, polarization, glare, mirages, and what any of that has to do with Michelangelo. (See cangiantismo and shot silk .) Send us a text
Dec 07, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 12
