FINA10032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Theory, Hilma Af Klint, Piet Mondrian
23 Oct 2018
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Week 6 lecture - coloured futures: constructivism, bauhaus and colour theory. Hand-tinted map of the island of utopia from a fruitful and pleasant work of the best state of public weal, and of the new isle call utopia (cid:472)(cid:433)(cid:437)(cid:433)(cid:438)(cid:473) Utopia perceived as a perfect place, word comes from (cid:434) words that mean (cid:455)no place(cid:456) Fritz lang, metropolis (cid:433)(cid:441)(cid:434)(cid:439) film (cid:455)the city of the future(cid:456) Poor people working like cogs in a machine underground to run the city above. Important role of colours in the (cid:455)new world(cid:456) Different colours would have meanings attached to it. Appears to be abstract but has characters and a narrative hidden in the artwork. Abstract: to draw off to pull off to de-contextualise. Hilma af klint, the ten biggest, no. (cid:435), (cid:433)(cid:441)(cid:432)(cid:439) He was about the universe and the truth. States that yellow, red and blue are the only true colours. Hung these white paintings on walls (cid:455)colour of modern time(cid:456)
