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Consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this useful and innovative tool helps designers explore a myriad of harmonious color.
Includes color circles, spheres, and scales as well as suggested exercises.
A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color contrasts.
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Profiles the Basic Course taught by Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany and discusses how it helped students determine their creative talents, choose a career, learn elementary design.
"The artist Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was not only a pioneering art theoretician and teacher, who crucially influenced the Wiemar Bauhaus with this teaching methods, but he also left an extensive and hugely varied oeuvre. The total spectrum of this artistic output is comprehensively honored in this opulently illustrated catalogue raisonne. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphic works, sculptures, carpets and furniture: Johannes Itten was an unusually versatile artist who over the course of six decades occupied himself intensely with matters of color theory and art education. Volume 1 of the three-volume catalogue raisonne documents the paintings, watercolors, and drawings dating from the period 1907-1938. Volume II will follow with the works from 1939 to 1967, while volume III will deal with prints, sculptures, textiles and furniture, along with resources and documents relating to Johanness Itten."--From back cover.
"In this book Itten examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are the two poles which are described in detail and clarified with numerous color reproductions." --P. [2] of cover.
When the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss artist and art theorist Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967) was one of the first teachers to be appointed by Walter Gropius. With his preliminary course, Itten had a considerable effect on the creative training in the Bauhaus; to this day his insights into the theory of colours set standards in art education and in the field of design. Enquiring mind and lecturer, painter and art teacher - Johannes Itten was a very thoughtful artist personality which was reflected in numerous theoretical texts and artworks covering a wide range of styles. Constantly in dialogue with students and colleagues as well as in a study of other cultures and artisti...
The Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto-illumination, the participant's body generating an intense light from within.