What is Colour?
Colour in art is the fundamental basis of all work and research! One needs to know colour to be able to work with it and to express onself. Colour helps provide the viewer with a message. Colour is not an accident but it is an emotion. This is the project that the Art Students worked on for the first three months of our scholastic year.
All the Art Students had to prepare a project on Colour. This is what one particular student, Hannah Angelone did.
The Colour Theory
The following presentation was prepared by Chloe Grima and Debbie Coleiro
COLOR : WHAT IS IT?
Most of the objects and environments that surround us are colored.
This is because light travels through waves of different length: each wave is a different
NEWTON’S DISCOVERY
Although colour phenomena had been investigated since ancient times, the first complete theory on their origin was expressed in 1672 by the English physicist Isaac Newton, who showed that light, which we see white, is actually made of the seven colours of solar spectrum.
To prove his theory he did an experiment: he projected a ray of light through a crystal prism onto a white wall. The ray got divided into the seven rainbow colours (in a sequence that he called “the light spectrum”). Then, he projected the divided ray of light through a lens and got the white light back, thus proving that white is the sum of those colours.
The same thing happens with the rainbow: the light that passes through the small drops of water, floating in the air after raining, divides into the seven spectrum colours.
This experiment with the prism shows that the objects that reflect all light waves appear white, while the objects that absorb all waves, without returning them to our eyes, are seen as black; the object that absorbs all the waves except one, has the colour of just that wave (for example an object that doesn’t absorb green, is seen green by our eyes).
What is Colour to Art?
Works by Art Students about Colour and Me!
Colour Theory and Johannes Itten
EXPLORING SHAPES AND COLOURS THROUGH THE WORKS OF WASSILY KANDINSKY
MALTESE ART STUDENT - HANNAH ANGELONE
These are the works that the Maltese Students have created after observing Kandinsky's work through Tints and Shades
Maltese Art Students have worked on a number of presentations in relation to colour and artists who have promoted colour a lot in their work either through their style or period. These presentations where carried out as a project to be presented as part of the lesson. The idea was to have a lesson from the students to the students!
The Art Students have reserached Artists and Theories about Warm and Cold colours. They have also used the various colours to create atmosphere or to depict mood in their own paintings. Colour can have a very powerful meaning even to depict and covey our feelings.
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MOODS
Experimenting with colour through the use of Salt and Milk. An Exciting Experience!!
COLOUR can change the way we look at things!!
The Maltese and Dutch students together have worked with colour to redecorate an old piece of furniture that was going to be thrown away! The results where very satisfactory!! Redesigning through colour!
A group of Maltese Art Students have used colour in combination with design and pattern to redesign another old piece of furniture in our school. This is what they did!
Activities Throughout the Scholastic Year with the predominent theme of Colour!
The Colours of Sernity and Peace
These are some of the Christmas Cards that where designed by our school for the office of the Prime Minister. Three of these cards were chosen to be the official Christmas Cards for the Prime Minister for last Christmas.
Numbers and colours!
An Abstract Composition with Numbers
An Art Exhibition within our School's Locality. Wignacourt's Arch in Colour as seen by our young artists!
MAKING PORTRAITS WITH POP ART STUDIO APP