David Bromley

Color Theory

Synopsis of Lecture Topics
and
Excerpts of Slide Presentations

Prehistoric Color Palette - The Ancient World - Color in Hierarchical Social Systems - Revolutionary Colorists: Grünewald and el Greco -
Optical Mixing of Colors
: Delacroix and van Gogh

 

Impressionistic Color Theory - Chevreul’s Colour Theory - Seurat and Pointillism - Subtractive Color Theory and Television

 

Bauhaus School - Complimentary Colors and Context - Hans Hofmann's "Push - Pull Theory" - "Optical" Artists - Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing Theories - Color Temperature

 

The Interaction of Color by Albers - Lateral Inhibition - Ludimar Hermann

 

Successive Contrast - Bezold Effect - Weber-Fechner Law - The Munsell and Ostwald Color Trees - Spectral Energy Distribution - Spectral Transmittance Curve

 

Hero - Ptolemy - Alhazen - Kepler - Descartes - Newton - Snell - Young - Goethe - Wave Particle Duality - von Helmholz

 

Historical Color Wheels - Review of the Visible Spectrum - Review of Additive Color - Electromagnetic Spectrum - Kelvin Scale - Speed of Light - Newton's Rings

 

Camera Obscura and Leonardo - Particle Theory - Wave Theory - Agricola and Color Temperature - Draper and Spectroscope - Janssen, Ramsay and Helium -
Planck, Einstein and Quanta Theory - Niels Bohrs' Atomic Model - Heat and Light

 

Fluorescence and Hennig Brand - Luminous Creatures - Bacterial Lights - Rhodopsin - Atmospheric Refraction - Filament Light Bulb vs. Fluorescent - Geissler Tube - Crookes Tube -
Braun Tube - JJ Thomson
- Electron Optics - Robert Williams Wood and Infrared Photography - Night Vision - Aurora Borealis

 

X-Rays: Röntgen - Diffraction Grating - Braking of Electrons - X-Ray Spectrometers

 

Photography: Schulze and Silver Nitrate - Wedgwood, Davy and Contact Photography - Joseph Niépce and the First Permanent Photograph - Louis Daguerre and the Mercury Process -
Henry Fox Talbot and the Paper Negative - Modern Black and White Film - James Clerk Maxwell and Color Photography

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