An episode promoting the online Minneapolis College of Art and Design Continuing Education course I will teach Wednesdays, March 25-April 22, 2026 / meeting 7:00-9:30pm CT USA. Please see MCAD CE website for details.

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A reflection on teaching primary color concepts; thoughts on persuasion and the Pantone Color of the Year. 

Resources:

Aristotle, On Sense and the Sensible, MIT website

Da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting, e-book website (see pages 141 and 147; also 178-79)

Ogden Rood, Modern Chromatics, Internet Archive, website

Berlin and Kay, Basic Color Terms, Wikipedia (Search UC Irvine for PDF)

Pantone website

David Batchelor, Chromophobia, University of Chicago Press, website

Mitchell Johnson on Color, Albers versus Itten, website

Jenn White, The enduring legacy of Jane Austen, WAMU / NPR, 1A, Listen

Jane Austen, Persuasion, 2007, IMBD website

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An episode devoted to the color yellow.

Resources:

The St. Olaf Choir

Looney Tunes: Elmer Fudd - Kill the Wabbit

Day Glo Company

David Briggs. Beyond Colour Theory: Understanding and Applying Colour, National Art School, Sydney, Australia, Online course 

Lauren Welbourne. Why we see things differently in winter compared with summer, Phys Org, Aug. 5, 2015

Lauren Welbourne, et al. Human colour perception changes between seasons, Current Biology, Aug. 3, 2015

Mike Webster. Environmental Influences on Color Vision, July 3, 2020

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

Cold Play: Yellow

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A reflection on the past 4 years of the podcast.

Matthew Midwood - Website

Ed Charbonneau - Website

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, USA - Website

Thomas Young - Bakerian Lecture, January 1, 1802, page 20

Barry B. Lee. 2008. The evolution of concepts of color vision. Neurociencias.

David Witt - Colormxr color mixing tool

International Colour Association - AIC 2025 Taipei: Color for Future

Colour Society of Australia - Colour Matrix Sydney 2025

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More background on competing histories of color harmony, and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2.

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher 

Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebook

Goethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Project Gutenberg ebook

Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors, 1816, AbeBooks

Spinal Tap, Jazz Odyssey, 1984

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Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception

Colour Literacy Project: Resources

Science How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was Pink

Martin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): Cyanometer

Color categories in thought and language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press, New York: 1997

Encyclopedia of Color Science and technology (UC Irvine): World Color Survey

Space.com: Parsec

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Sharing a project I designed based upon Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's color methodologies. Try it for yourself, or with a class.

Link to project description (Google Doc):

Color Project: Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel 

Link to video of presentation on Gartside and Vanderpoel's methodologies (on Vimeo):

MCAD 2022 Faculty Biennial Forum Presentation by Ed Charbonneau

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Color and Emotion, the topic of a 5-week online course I have  designed and will be teaching in March/April 2025 for the Continuing Education Department of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Color and Emotion: Experience and Aesthetic Awareness
Online course, five weeks
Wednesday evenings
March 5 - April 9 (off March 19)
7-9:30 pm CT
Course website

Mark Rothko at MoMA

Michelangelo Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo Doni Tondo, Uffizi Galleries

Coca-Cola and Santa Claus

Crane bathroom tiles and fixtures

Auntie Mame, 1958 Movie Trailer

The Velvet Underground, Who Loves the Sun, Loaded, 1970

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Welcome to Season 4!

Lost and Found: Abbott Thayer and The Study of Camouflage. Martin Stevens 

Dazzle Camouflage. Wikipedia

Neuroanatomy, Retina. Navid Mahabadi and Yasir Al Khalil, NIH, Aug. 8, 2023

The Confetti Illusion: This optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors. How does it work? Nicoletta Lanse, Live Science, May 19, 2021

The ‘Confetti Illusion’ Makes Fruit Appear Riper Than It Really Is. Katharina Menne, Scientific American, Aug. 19, 2024 

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The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons.


The Book of Colour Concepts, Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard, Taschen 2024

Color Theory: A Critical Introduction, Aaron Fine, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Magenta + Green = Blue? Instagram video reel

Black Flag, TV Party, 1982

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