This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation and Fine Arts Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
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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 Message. Please find more informa…
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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 an…
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CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm
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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…
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Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience
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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 A…
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Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color
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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 Message. Please find more information to …
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Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour
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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 Message. Please find more informa…
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Interview with Jeremy Szopinski: Abstract Landscape Painting
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Jeremy Szopinski
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Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction
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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 …
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Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1
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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 th…
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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A review of a listener letter. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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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 us…
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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. Orig…
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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. Originati…
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Green: Are There More Greens than Any Other Color?
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Color Theory Wars 2: The Philosopher (Schopenhauer) vs the Poet (Goethe) and the Physicist (Newton)
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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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 Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Discussion of how our perception of blues and greens remain strong in low light, and how that may have impacted the use of lapis lazuli (and other blue pigments) prior to the invention of the electric light bulb. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Why did Homer repeatedly describe the color of the ocean as wine-dark in the Iliad and the Odyssey? Could the sky have been purple or violet in the days when Helen and Achilles lived in mythological Ancient Greece? Discussion will focus on the possible ways in which the ocean could have been similar in color to that of a nice Cabernet Sauvignon or …
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Color Theory Wars 1: The Poet (Goethe) vs the Physicist (Newton)
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In Zur Farbenlehre (A Theory of Colours, or, A Doctrine of Colours) of 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe worked to dismiss Newton’s findings of the nature of spectral light and sought a return to Aristotelian views of color. Why no love for Newton? This episode reviews Goethe's theories and how he introduced psychology to the understanding of human …
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Chromostereopsis: Color Depth Perception & Focal Points
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Also known as vibrating colors or scintillating colors. Discussion of the chromostereopsis effect will explore how colors are perceived in 3-dimensional space, even when located on a 2-dimensional picture plane; how reds advance and blues recede. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Given the properties of color (hue, value & chroma), do value contrasts work to form the most effective focal points? This question is addressed in relation to color vision's adaptability to view contrasts in hue and chroma over those of value and brightness. Also, could our vision as babies affect how we perceive value contrasts today? Send us a T…
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Unique Yellow: How Perception Shifts the Color of Sunlight with the Changing of the Seasons
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Have you ever noticed that the color of sunlight changes throughout the year? It is thought that this is due to our shifting perception of a color known as Unique Yellow. Discussion will center on how this phenomenon occurs. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Is Indigo the Pluto of Hues? - Sir Isaac Newton and the Visible Spectrum
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Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Is black plastic recyclable? Check out the World Economic Forum for more information on how it is recyclable, but rarely recycled. This episode focuses on a potential color theory explanation as to why it is that black plastic is used frequently as food packaging. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosph…
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Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction
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A prior 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 …
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Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly stated the Jacob Christopher Le Blon was the first to identify cyan, magenta, and yellow as the three subtractive primary colors in 1723-26. Le Blon invented three and four color printing, but used red, yellow, and blue as his primaries. It wasn't until 1905 when Thomas A. Lenci of the Eagl…
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Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed
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