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ARCHIVE
2010

apr days
• color
concept &
theory widgets and apps

mar days
• red:
a portrait of a artist rothko

feb days
• talking
heads as figure/ground

jan days
• tanja's
black light dance party

ARCHIVE
2009

dec days
• tootsie roll pop wrappers colors & flavors

nov days
• stephen vitiello's four color sound

oct days
• atmospheric perspective

sept days
• a rainbow
of antioxidants
colors

aug days
• floor stain colorants

jul days
• minimal colors

jun days
• wildflowers cataloged by color

may days
• tennis court colors

apr days
• morandi's neutral colors

mar days
• grid colorists

feb days
• black as
film noir

jan days
• flood of toxic minerals used in paints

ARCHIVE
2008

dec days
• comple-mentary
colors

nov days
• kettle korn
packaging color change

oct days
• green fluorescent protein

sept days
• red palms - not green

aug days
• blue tunes

jul days
• “blue” - textile museum

jun days
• “fiesta- ware”
colorants

may days
• “blue alchemy” hive gallery

apr days
• “sennelier” selecting
watercolours for travel

Stephen Vitiello's Four Color Sound

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One of the four colors - from the 28-minute audio cycle accompanied by choreographed lighting effects that charge the foggy room with four consecutive color segments.

Vitiello was a guest artist at Mills College Center for Contemporary Music Composers Concert, Oakland, CA on Oct. 13, 2009.

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Artists have always experienced the synesthetic experience of associating color with sound. Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, the first artists to break from representation and enter abstraction, may have been able to make that break because of their connection with sight and sound. Both artists played the violin and were brought up in musical families. See samples of Kandinsky and Klees works below:

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The language of music was readily adapted to visual equivalents: tone, harmony, dynamics, composition, rhythm, pattern, color chords, key, pitch, motif and more.

Kandinsky quote: ”Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

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click to see larger view:Kandinsky and Klees Paintings are in proportion to actual size of each painting.

Left
Paul Klee
Southern (Tunisian) Gardens
1919
Watercolor
9.5 x 7.5 in
Collection
Heinz Berggruen, Paris