Colour Essays

  • Role of Colour in Impressionism

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    Role of Colour in Impressionism In this essay, I shall try to examine how great a role colour played in the evolution of Impressionism. Impressionism in itself can be seen as a linkage in a long chain of procedures, which led the art to the point it is today. In order to do so, colour in Impressionism needs to be placed within an art-historical context for us to see more clearly the role it has played in the evolution of modern painting. In the late eighteenth century, for example, ancient Greek

  • Racism: Are We Better Off Colour Blind?

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    Racism: Are We Better Off Colour Blind? My background is Italian, so that makes me Italian-Canadian. The only time I have personally experienced racism was when I was called a "wop." This is how it felt: hurtful, degrading, humiliating. This is what it made me feel like as a person: worthless, inferior, powerless. Is this what goes on in the world? Is it truly fair? That is what my experience made me wonder. People who taunt others, in my opinion, are actually insecure about themselves

  • Investigation Into the Colour of Light Needed to Start a Photosynthesis Reaction

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    Investigation Into the Colour of Light Needed to Start a Photosynthesis Reaction Diagrams [IMAGE] Method The apparatus for this experiment will be setup as shown in the diagram, for all the experiments the coloured filter will be 5cm away from the white light bulb, which is a 60watt bulb, and the beaker will be 20cm away from the edge of the coloured filter. Just before the experiment takes place we will place the pond weed (which has been in darkness for at least 24 hours to stop

  • Colour Theory: Properties Of Colour

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    Colour Theory: Properties of Colour HUE The property of light that allows objects to be seen as red, blue or green. Hues are considered pure colours as they are not mixed with black or white pigments which would make them shades or tints. There are six hues, namely red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue or violet. Variations of this spectrum may be the seven colours of the visible light spectrum. (Cotnoir, 2012) COLOUR Colour is what is seen when light waves are reflected off a particular material

  • Color Imagery in Film Cool Runnings

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    Color Imagery in Film Cool Runnings Colour imagery is used in four main ways in the film 'Cool Runnings': 1. To establish the setting. 2. To help define character. 3. To predict potential unity between main characters. 4. To illustrate the growing personalities of the Jamaicans. The film uses colour imagery right from the start. The film opens up with a beautiful back drop of a warm, glowing sun rise. As the film goes on we see the luscious green countryside and the islanders

  • Art Analysis: Safely Contained

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    artist in this piece has reversed this, making the red compliment the subject. We could maybe say this image is a stem of the 'pop art' movement; although it contains the blocked and flat colour elements, it still remains to be painted in a lifelike colour and composition, and so does not possess the vibrant colours usually related with 'pop art.' The size of the image is unknown but I should imagine it would be on a fairly large scale for it to have an impact, I think at such a size, the red

  • View From My Window

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    artist captures your attention by the bright colours and in my opinion the focal point of the picture is the roof of the building as it's red and is the brightest point. I don't think the artist has really used line as such , but he creates line by dabbing the brush to form straight lines. I think the artist has used a wide range of tones from light to dark, the lightest point being the very centre of it which is a light green/yellow colour and the brightest point being the red roof. There

  • COMPOSITION AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

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    symmetry and positive and negative space. By utilising the elements of line, tone, texture, shape, and emphasis, you will achieve visual harmony in your composition and layout. As you develop a working knowledge of the properties of colour, you will apply appropriate colour schemes that reflect the emotions of various consumer markets. PRINCIPLES ========== Balance-an equal distribution of weight. When a design is balanced we tend to feel that it holds together, looks unified and feels harmonious

  • Investigating the Reaction Between Bromine and Cyclohexane

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    mixture of Cyclohexane and water, and placing the mixture under a bright light and shaking from time to time, Hydrogen Bromide is formed. This reaction is shown below: [IMAGE]C6H12 + Br2 C6H11Br + HBr When the bromine has all reacted and the red colour has gone, the hydrogen bromide can be titrated with sodium hydroxide. This reaction is shown below: [IMAGE]HBr + NaOH NaBr + H2O From this titration I can then work out the HBr formed per mole of Bromine. Results of my experiment ------------------------

  • Aesthetic Quality in "The Design" by Robert Frost

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    Aesthetic quality is the most important characteristic of a poem. Poetry is an art form, and as painters use colours and techniques to define their works, a poet uses language. Symbolism, metaphors, and knowledge of past works, are the ingredients in which all forms of art are comprised. No matter what form art chooses it will leave a lasting impression on those considering it. In the case of the poet, the author must paint a picture in our minds, with the intention that we may question, remember

  • The Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate

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    brilliant violet colour. However, this violet colour only results in the presence of iodine, or in other words, when iodine is being produced in the reaction. If sodium thiosulphate is added to reaction (1), than as long as there are two moles of thiosulphate for every mole of iodine, the solution will be colourless because the iodine is being used up in reaction (2). However, as time passes, the thiosulphate must run out at some point, and when it does, the violet colour will appear.

  • Designing and Producing a Logo Graphic

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    galatasaray.co.uk. I must produce the company logo graphic to meet ‘Galatasaray’ design brief: · image must use Colour · image must incorporate text and graphics · image must be no larger than 3 inches square The company is interested in seeing my skills so I should make sure I demonstrate that I can use: · drawing tools (e.g. line, shape, text, brush, Colour, spray) · attribute tools (e.g. fill, line thickness) · manipulation tools (e.g. move, size, copy, paste, flip or

  • gatcolor Color Code in The Great Gatsby

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    The Color Code in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism. Colours, for example, are used to represent many different things; some even represent a theme of the novel. White, yellow, grey, green are just some of the colours which Fitzgerald uses in a special way, because each of these colours has a special meaning, different from the ones we regularly know or use. White is a colour which appears many times throughout the novel. At first, it is used to describe Daisy. The

  • Kandinsky's Art

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    effects. Introduction Upon my first encounter with Kandinsky's painting, my eyes and indeed my mind were overcome with a sense of puzzlement, as it seemed impossible to decipher what lay beneath his passionate use of colour and distorted forms. Kandinsky hoped by freeing colour from its representational restrictions, it, like music could conjure up a series of emotions in the soul of viewer, reinforced by corresponding forms. Throughout this essay, I will follow Kandinsky's quest for a pure

  • Identifying an Organic Unknown

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    identify which one of the groups the sample contains. The flow chart below shows the chemical techniques, which I will use to identify the functional group of the unknown. 1: Test with universal indicator. [IMAGE] Turn red turn And other colour. 2: Test with bromine water 3: test with 2, 4 DNPH [IMAGE][IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE] Decolourises No orange/yellow No [IMAGE][IMAGE]Bromine water Change

  • The Effect Of Looking At A Database Based On Key Stage 4 From High School

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    Qualitative Information. Examples of this data are: · Year Group · Name; Surname, Forename 1 and Forename 2 · Age in Months and Years · Month of Birthday · Gender · Hair Colour · Eye Colour · Left/Right Handed · Favourite Colour · Average number of Hours TV Watched per week · SATS Results etc… In this project I am going to make up several Hypothesises that I will use the data from the Data Base to help me prove

  • Evaluation of Advert

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    started by placing a blue and white gradient background. This is plain and minimalistic but at the same time adding some colour to the advert whereas plain white would have appeared bland. I used blue because it is a very cool colour and is linked with cold colours and ice. I am trying to put across that the product is cool and ‘Smooth’ so cool blues play an important part in the colour scheme. I then added a picture of the product. I placed this in the top right and is quite big. This is to get across

  • Aristotle's Categories

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    again, are present in a subject, but are never predicable of a subject. For instance, a certain point of grammatical knowledge is present in the mind, but is not predicable of any subject; or again, a certain whiteness may be present in the body (for colour requires a material basis), yet it is never predicable of anything. Other things, again, are both predicable of a subject and present in a subject. Thus while knowledge is present in the human mind, it is predicable of grammar. There is, lastly, a

  • Race in Othello and Titus Andronicus

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    conniving and malevolent, while Othello has none of these traits. Othello's fault lies in the fact that he is very gullible and easily led. Aaron within Titus Andronicus is a character that is both bound and not bound to his colour. Though his actions can be "blamed" on his colour, there are two paths to follow in this thinking. First Aaron's actions within the play can be blamed on the fact that he is black and as he is black, he is naturally a bad person as black people are stereotypically people

  • Good and Evil in The Gathering by Anne Enright

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    gathers” (page 84). Evil that gathers in Cheshunt comes in shades of colours: “fire-red” and “uniform-blue”. But each of these evils are defeated by “love-white”. The mental battle of evil and how evil can be abusive, aggressive and violent (fire-red) and the deceptiveness and dishonesty of authority (uniform – blue) can be hard to fight, but the good (love-white) overcomes all and wins against any colour of evil even though every colour makes white and every shade of evil makes up good. In the novel