Line, space and color

Maria Elena Ligory

doi:10.1117/12.464543

6 June 2002 Line, space and color

Maria Elena Ligory

Proceedings Volume 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464543
Event: 9th Congress of the International Color Association, 2001, Rochester, NY, United States

Abstract

Blends and combinations that occur in the world of color are of a great variety. The combinations vary from barely perceptible changes to the most intense contrasts. The vast world of color is explored in search of criteria for its organization, its diversity and complexity being evidenced, identifying three strategic fields for performing work: the surroundings, the object and the perceiver. These fields are recognizable rather than separable as the integration is confirmed in this study. Before this complexity, we decided to begin in a way that contrasts with the nearly most elemental criterion for organizing colors, the criterion of gradation, from complex to simple. The gradual order is a sequential order and of transition between two given color values. In principle, it is an order of linear conceptualization. Let us broaden the approach and consider the line, firstly its single-direction aspect and then in space which is also chromatic, and apply the same criterion of gradation between the structural elements, line and space. We can perceive that the line tends to abandon its limitations, to combine and interact with the surrounding space and shows us with this its freedom, form the simple to the complex.

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Maria Elena Ligory "Line, space and color", Proc. SPIE 4421, 9th Congress of the International Colour Association, (6 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.464543

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