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Aug 17, 2012 · By Maria Popova. Color is an essential part of how we experience the world, both biologically and culturally. One of the earliest formal explorations of color theory came from an unlikely source — the German poet, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832), who in 1810 published Theory of Colors ...
1840. OCLC. 318274261. Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1810
Aug 28, 2021 · Violet is unnecessary. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also proposed a symmetric color wheel and put emphasis on the importance of magenta, in contrast to Newton, who counted only spectral colors as fundamental. In his color wheel, Goethe also included several aesthetic qualities titled as “allegorical, symbolic, mystic use of colour “.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe held that yellow ad blue were primary. Newton and Goethe took very different approaches in their study of color. For Newton, color theory was something to be scientifically derived from experimentation in a lab. Goethe, on the other hand, took a more experiential and physiological approach.
This work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Goethe's 1810 work was rejected by many contemporary scientists because it appeared to contradict the physical laws laid down by Newton.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Lock Eastlake
- 2014
Nov 29, 2015 · Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832: Translator: Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865: Uniform Title: Zur Farbenlehre. English Title: Goethe's Theory of Colours Note: Translation of: Zur Farbenlehre Credits: Produced by Annemie Arnst, Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) Language: English ...
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Aug 17, 2012 · One of the earliest formal explorations of color theory came from an unlikely source -- the German poet, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who in 1810 published Theory of Colours ...
