🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The course aims to present the properties of Color as a visual phenomenon and the way in which it affects perception. At the same time, in the application of Color in the formation of visual compositions, in terms of the aesthetic effects it creates.

Upon successful completion of the courses, students will be able to:

• understand the properties of Color as a visual formal element that interacts with Design, Tonality, Lighting, Volume, Textures, Sound, its role in visual composition and the way in which it composes and gives meaning to space.
• compose color compositions and color charts, and apply Color aesthetically and practically.
• get to know Color as a vocabulary of different artists and make choices.
• use Color as a semantic element that affects perception.
• apply and support their choices with presentations of color compositions/bibliography/ergography.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Chromatology I
2. Chromatology II
3. Chromatology III
4. Chromatology IV
5. Chromatology V
6. Color and Artists I
7. Color and Artists II
8. Synesthesia - Timbres I
9. Synesthesia - Timbre II
10. Color and Space I
11. Color and Space II
12. Color and Space III
13. Color and Multisensory Aesthetics

Theoretical concepts: Color theory, color circles, color star, color sphere, complementary colors, color-light-texture, color reality and color effect, interaction, harmony, balance, symmetry, tonality of colors. Color harmonies. Color contrasts. After-visual mixing. Color and Design. Color and Space. Synesthesia-Timbre. Color chords. Color and multi-sensory aesthetics. Color semiotics. The study of color in artists and art movements. Digital colors

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Chromatology I
2. Chromatology II
3. Chromatology III
4. Chromatology IV
5. Chromatology V
6. Color and Artists I
7. Color and Artists II
8. Synesthesia - Timbres I
9. Synesthesia - Timbre II
10. Color and Space I
11. Color and Space II
12. Color and Space III
13. Color and Multisensory Education

Explanation of laboratory hours: It will be done in parallel with the theory, with color exercises, color compositions, color charts, color issues related to the aesthetics of the space, the garment, the scenography. The work will be done individually or in groups, mixing pigments/digital processing/models/collages. As a final work, there will be a presentation of visual proposals or a project of public presentation of group work, which will be documented by a short theoretical support work

Language of assessment: Greek and English

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Formative assessment (40%) including:

  1. Presentation of the dossier and Draft of the final work, with a documentation text of 300 words. 10%

  2. Presentation of a dossier and artistic work, with a documentation text of 300 words. 10%

  3. Progress: presentation of the dossier and the development of the initial Draft, with a documentation text of 300 words. 20%

• Final evaluation (60%) which includes: a) the final presentation in digital form or plastic model or project in the space. The final presentation can be group, but will be accompanied by an individual documentation text of 300 words that will include influences/references to artists, bibliography, artists' works, and presentation of the folder.

  Note: *The folder refers to the personal research done by the students in stages, from the beginning of the course and may contain sketches, photographs, videos, notes-remarks, references to artists, collages, and general sketches-drafts (dated), in relation to the processing of the final work. Also all presentations (with presentation date) which precede the final work.

• Face-to-face

• Use of ICT in teaching

• Use of ICT when communicating with students.

• Audiovisual examples, Support of the learning process through eClass by providing audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA174

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• J.W.Goethe (2008) Color Theory, Printa Publications

• D.Batchelor (2008) Romophobia, Agra Publications

• K.St.Clair, (2024) Colors and their Secret Lives, Crete University Press

• Z.Semir, (2002) Esoteric Vision, Crete University Press

• Tsilaga, E.M. (2011) The techniques of Painting. Epikentro Publications

Extra Bibliography

• W. Sargent, Color in Nature and Art, Kalvos Publications, 1987
• John Gage: Colour and Meaning, Thames and Hudson,2000
• John Gage: Colour and Culture, Thames and Hudson,1993/97
• A.Sloan,Colour in decoration, P.F.Lincoln Publications,1990
• A. Schopenhauer, On Vision and Colors, ed. Printa,2017
• Th. Pantos, The Color, Kalvos Publications, 1990.
• V.Finlay, Colour: A Natural History of the Palette, Random House,2003
• Opy Zouni, Adam Publications, 1997
• C. Dorosz: Designing with Color: Concepts and Applications
• E. Opara, J. Cantwell, Color Works: Best Practices for Graphic Designers,Bevery,MA,2014
• C. Zwick, Digital Colour for the Internet and other Media, U.K.,2003
• M. Pastoreau, Blue, Ink Editions
• D. Batcelor, Chromophobia, Agra Publications, 2008
• C.A. Riley II, Colour Codes, UPNE,1995
• E. Thomson, Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception, Routledge,1995
• M. Kalderon & D. Hilbert, Color Perception, Oxford UP,2000
• A. Byrne & D. R. Hilbert, Readings on Color, MIT PRESS,1997