You know it's a good assignment when you immediately get up to do it! :D

I got to hear Odita speak back in 2015 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, when his art was featured in an exhibition. His ideas about color are really interesting! Thanks for interviewing him!

Wow, his art is breathtaking! His art reminds me of things I've envisioned in my mind, but haven't yet made. But, he didn't just envision such things, but made them! His art is vivid, larger than life, and beautiful! I LOVE it!

while I'm bittersweet this is the last assignment, I'm glad it's such a great one. going out with a bang :)

As a devoted Vlogbrothers etc viewer, I only just subscribed to the Art Assignment. If this is what the assignments are like, boy have I been missing out. This is so cool!

I wish I had Odili Donald Odita as my teacher! He explains things so well!

I loved the background of this video while the artist was talking. So many different shades of "white."

This might be my favorite assignment.

this reminds me of when I was at art school and had to paint a white Egg against white cloth... that project was soooo frustrating...

@theartassignment

7 жыл бұрын

That could definitely be a way to respond to this one. But I, too, had a frustrating experience in school trying to paint a crumpled piece of kleenex.

Very cool, one of the clearest and most succinct explanations of why colour is downright *scary* to deal with. That sneaky mutability! What's the light source, the time of day, the materials touching it, near it, the light that bounces off other materials onto it... even if you cast a bit of shade onto the object it can really change up, and the slightest tweaks can render something from lovely to unsettling.... ok, apparently I never realized just how much anxiety I had around colour. ;) Needless to say, I love this assignment, very insightful, really opens up awareness, and thought provoking. Sad this is the last one (for now...), but a great one to end on. I'd say GOLD STAR! but now I'm wondering just what gold looks like to me and versus how it looks to others... :)

The animation reminded me of how Hank is seen as the blonde one when he's with john even though his hair is brown. I can't wait to to this for extra credit btw!

Loved this. Honestly it's something that we take for granted - our perception of color and it's shades and hues. We assume because it has the name "blue" that it then is ONLY blue but when you compare generic "blue" things you find that things aren't as they appear. This whole video brought to mind Kazimir Malevich and his Black Square or the White on White. Needless to say, I loved this video and hope its discourse will help to broaden perspectives.

Again, just mesmerizing. His work reminds me of a kaleidoscope with a graphic novel pallette.

This is interesting, I liked what Odita said about color names being abstracted or generalized. There's a lot of snow where I am, and looking at the landscape is a less interactive way of seeing the different shades and tones that white can take on.

I am in a core 2 course and we are embarking in colors. Such a cool thing

This is a great assignment. The contingency of color has long been a fascination of mine in music, so it's great to see that performed by Odili Donald Odita. Thanks for introducing me to the work and thought of this insightful artist!

I like that different cultures even distinguish different colors differently depending on what words their language uses for describing colors. That means that if your language has a word for different shade of color, you can identify it correctly much easier than someone who's language doesn't have those words

I love videos like this that enable me to think more complexly about the world around me. This channel is amazing, thanks for helping me learn and understand better!

The start of the animation reminded me of the start of the song Quiet from Matilda the Musical! It's a concept that always blows my mind so I love that this assignment realises that. Will be posting in AA:EC soon! (Also I think this is a great assignment to start with - to me it doesn't seem as intimidating to attempt as some of the others. Not that I don't think they're all amazing, it's just that I wouldn't know where to start with some! I think this will get me into it nicely!!)

John's intense staring at Sarah at around 5:23 is so funny to me. Adorable.

This one is really intense. I love it!

Great stuff! I love his work.

Hey this applies to dressing outfits-mix matching clothes and cooking. Salads and tomatoes on burgers. Pancake stacks! Yum

This is how I determine the decade of cars. Color and shape

That's an interesting way to look at color, as time periods. In som way then the painting has a totally different meaning to Odita than it would to say someone like me who sees color as a way to express feelings. I guess it can be seen from both viewpoints. When I use to take AP art I'd always find some weird delight in looking at my teachers confused face when I showed up to class with a new painting where I had no boundary as to what colors I was using.

Wow! Mind blown!

I love this! ♡

White eggs in a white bowl on a white table cloth... a study I had to do... humbling...I'll do it again using this and see if I'm still in awe of it

so much fun!

i am in love with that man.

I wish he made animations of his work, it’s so dynamic

Brilliant

Watching this to avoid doing homework and one of my assignments I am avoiding is to read an excerpt of Coates. Is this coincidence a sign?

Is this our extra credit?

@theartassignment

7 жыл бұрын

YES!

@irrelephantnonsense

7 жыл бұрын

I'M EXCITED!

As a web dev, this is quite easy! RGBA all the way! That is an #FFFFFE.

@lovelyhera1314

7 жыл бұрын

That would be a really cool way to do it though - take white object, photograph it or scan it, or even just observe the object and play with hex values in your graphics program until you've identified the right value.You could even use a pure graphic/never existed in reality FFFFFF swatch as comparison.

@theartassignment

7 жыл бұрын

Ok, yes, but how are you going to express, represent, or talk about your findings? That's the hard part, I think!

@Kram1032

7 жыл бұрын

even if you take the RGB colors, you'll still have to be more specific: What color space are you working with? What white point did you pick in your image viewing/editing software? - Is it a different color space and white point than chosen by your camera? And is your screen calibrated? I am currently running f.lux which, since the sun is down where I am right now, gives everything a yellow tinge, yet if I focus on the screen for long enough, it'll still appear white to me. And even if I don't do that, even if I deactivate it, between, say, my phone, my laptop and my PC, all of them will display images slightly differently. Colors on a computer are actually a complexity nightmare.

@HamidrezaParsa

7 жыл бұрын

Good point. You might find Vox's video about colour photography film and how its white point calibration was informed by the social situation in the last decades, interesting. It basically shows how industry's focus on white customers, made their skin tone normal white, to such extent that it would make black people almost appear like a black silhouette in the photos.

@Kram1032

7 жыл бұрын

I can't remember that one but I watch their videos regularly so I'm pretty sure I DID see it unless I somehow missed it. Certainly sounds interesting. And by the way, I think that's two much better approaches if you want to do this assignment with a computer: With a single screen: Try finding various colors you'd classify as "white". Then build an image of uniform areas of each of them and label them according to the descriptions you'd give them now that you see them right next to each other. With multiple screens: Look at the same #FFFFFF white image on each of them, seeing them side by side. Describe the corresponding colors.

I got two towels and put them on top of each other... then I realized I should bleach them when they both looked brown

I'm terrible and want to cross arms with my also very pale brother.

@jennahj_

7 жыл бұрын

radicalbacon do it!

Wish my computer screen had enough colors to make out his color demo.

Why is this the best Shit I've ever seen on KZread rum

6:15 using color and form to think about complex social and political issues...? I don't get that xD I mean... how? Could you please elaborate on that? I'd be happy :)

@ricardogaliano9333

3 жыл бұрын

The last part of the video helps figuring this out. Color can only be identified as a product of its relationships, it does not posses an essential nature that makes it that color and not another. So experience: and naming proccesses are at the end of the day a result of mutual interaction. This approach to color builds on a philosophical perspective, by which we can’t extract an individual from its surrounding elements. Mind and subjectivity aren’t separate from objects, but instead ontologically mutual. Consciousness is on something. The paintings at the end of the day suggest that individuality can’t be understood without the effects of mutual interaction. This neglects any sense of finite and fix truth. Each element is a product of a long series of interactions that can be studied as a social construct. This ultimately points directly to any social construct based on categorization, reminding that identities are the residues of social and historical proccesses. It may seem easy enough to essentialize what is socialy accepted as self-evident by exherting hegemony and power. But mutual horizontal collaboration and the yuxtaposition of perspectives helps to relativize absolute truth and suggest a wide range of possibilities. Reducing labeling to a game, by accepting ineffability is an original artistic, social and political device. Funny enough maybe it is true that what can’t be named doesn’t exist but that might not mean that it can’t be experienced.

Professor Beau Lotto - if you want to know about colour perception he's one of the leading authorities. *Is the red you see, the same as the red I see?* He's designed an experiment to test this and the answer seems to be a loud and clear *No.* Your perception of colour is determined by physical context, socialization, and even language - from his experiments it seems that if you don't have a word for a colour then you can't see that colour. Here are some optical illusions with colour. If you've not seen them before you probably won't believe them www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html

You did notice that you ended this with the word "spacetime" in the last sentence?

No mention of texture or sheen.

Will the official Art Assignment Responses Tumblr go on reposting the responses from everyone, now that the Art Assignments are over? I didn't see a new Response - Repost for months now.

@theartassignment

7 жыл бұрын

We have gotten very behind! Back on it, I promise.

@evaha2016

7 жыл бұрын

great!

Me and my classmates in art studio::👁👄👁

I had to pause to clean my screen and start again

Gah! Nothing is white anymore >_>

You know what the problem is for me? His explanation sounds more like a collection of smart sounding words and phrases which don't make any sense together. I'm confused. Like if he himself didn't know why but was asked and had to explain.

My eyes and brain is lied to me

8:22 My mom on laundry day

He’s not my teacher so idk if he’s great.