Course: Colour - Light - Shape 2

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Course title Colour - Light - Shape 2
Course code KKTS/BST2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ovčáčková Jana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Content of lectures 1. What is the task of colours in a painting Colour in 19th and 20th century art Colour typology The use of colour associations in marketing 2. Physical effects of colour - achromatic light and surface colour, relationship between coloured light and coloured surface 3. Psychological effects of colour - colour and personality diagnosis, colour and synaesthesia 4. Optical illusions based on the action of colour - after-contrast, simultaneous contrast, irradiation, colour induction, aints with induction, Bezold effect, Op art Visual illusions - linear, image reversibility, kinetic effects - linear, colour kinetic effect 5. Principles of colour mixing - mixing two colours in a circle, mixing three colours in a triangle, mixing four colours in a quare-. 6. Harmony and disharmony of colours, harmony of colours 7. Principles of designing colour combinations - dyads, triads, tetrads, hexads 8. Colour assemblies 9. František Kupka and his The Sense and Feeling of Colour 10. Bauhaus and the introductory course Colour and Shape, Wasilly Kandinsky and his Language of Shapes and Colours Johannes Itten and his colour chords 11. Ulm School and teaching with colour exercises - Tomás Maldonado, Otto Aicher, Max Bill, 12. Colour in design and architecture Colour in graphic design and printing 13. Camouflage, its principles, development How animals see the world Exercise content 1. Exercise on light contrast 2. Colour exercise on simultaneous contrast 3. Colour exercise on the Bezold effect 4. Exercise on op art, optical illusion 5. Exercise on loading transparent colour layers 6. Colour exercise on colour and shape 7. Exercise on balanced complementary colour composition 8. Exercise on monochromatic colour scheme 9. Exercise on analogous colour scheme 10. Colour exercise on temperature contrast

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
  • Participation in classes - 26 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 24 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Prerequisities are not set
Prerequisities are not set
learning outcomes
- explain the use of colors and their properties in various fields: in marketing, in color typology, in the field of psychology, in personality diagnostics, in the field of safety marking
- explain the use of colors and their properties in various fields: in marketing, in color typology, in the field of psychology, in personality diagnostics, in the field of safety marking
- explain the associative, spatial, optical properties of color
- explain the associative, spatial, optical properties of color
- explain the dependence of color on light, time of day and changes in color in different lighting environments
- explain the dependence of color on light, time of day and changes in color in different lighting environments
- list color schemes and color combinations
- list color schemes and color combinations
- define the term optical illusion, list color contrasts
- define the term optical illusion, list color contrasts
- to define the meaning and transformation of the perception of color in art, architecture and design of the 20th century
- to define the meaning and transformation of the perception of color in art, architecture and design of the 20th century
- define the term camouflage, its development and principles
- define the term camouflage, its development and principles
Skills
- apply the acquired information in the field of color, light, and shape to one's study studio art works, to one's private work
- apply the acquired information in the field of color, light, and shape to one's study studio art works, to one's private work
- to implement an artistic color design for the field of marketing
- to implement an artistic color design for the field of marketing
- to realize works of art or artistic forms according to a certain color scheme, color composition
- to realize works of art or artistic forms according to a certain color scheme, color composition
- to implement a surface art task in which color creates an illusion of space, an optical illusion
- to implement a surface art task in which color creates an illusion of space, an optical illusion
- implement camouflage with creative means
- implement camouflage with creative means
teaching methods
Knowledge
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Projection (static, dynamic)
Projection (static, dynamic)
Lecturing
Lecturing
Skills
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
assessment methods
Knowledge
Written examination
Written examination
Recommended literature
  • BROZMAN, Dušan. O barvě. Moravská galerie v Brně, 2009. ISBN 9788070272046.
  • BROŽEK, Jaroslav. Úvod do výtvarné teorie - barvy. Ústí nad Labem: Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, 2009. ISBN 9788074141294.
  • BROŽKOVÁ, Ivana. Dobrodružství barvy. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983. ISBN 1421783.
  • DANNHOFEROVÁ, Jana. Velká kniha barev: kompletní průvodce pro grafiky, fotografy a designéry.. Brno: Computer Press, 2012. ISBN 9788025137857.
  • KANDINSKY, Wassily. O duchovnosti v umění. Praha: Triáda, 2009. ISBN 9788087256084.
  • Klee, Paul. Pedagogický náčrtník. 1. vyd. Praha : Triáda, 1999. ISBN 8086138151.
  • PASTERAU, Michel. Modrá-dějiny jedné barvy. Praha: Argo, 2013. ISBN 9789025708866.
  • PRETTE, M. C. a CAPALDO, A. Tvorivosť, tvar, farba. Bratislava: Mladá léta, 1982. ISBN 6605182.


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