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Colour Dynamics II

Painting the twelvefold colour language of Aristotle and Rudolf Steiner
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Colour Dynamics II is based on Aristotle’s categories, extended by Rudolf Steiner. It enables   readers to deepen and extend their own colour insights. This is a useful resource for art students, painters, teachers, art therapists and interior designers. It offers a vivid approach to colour theory that will renew the way you see, experience and interpret the formative forces of colour, and to paint from the heart of each colour.

Angela Lord is an educator, painter, interior colour designer, muralist and art therapist.  She has taught in state and Rudolf Steiner schools, in adult education, in teacher training in China and the Middle East.  She has exhibited in Britain, Switzerland and New Zealand, and her Hawthorn Press titles include Colour Dynamics and Creative Form Drawing with Children

How to use this book. Thinking in colours and forms. Overview of the 12 categories of Aristotle and Rudolf Steiner. The 12 categories as developed by Gerard and Elizabeth Wagner. The categories and the zodiac. Introducing each category, with painting exercises: Being, Appearance, Time, Space, Quantity, Quality Doing/Activity, Suffering/passivity, Conduct, Position, Relation, Substance. References and further reading.

* Outlines a step-by-step, practical guide to painting and painting methods. * Innovative painting exercises supported by insightful guidance, to deepen, extend, and consolidate your experience of colour. * Develops a process for understanding the individuality of each colour, and its unique, formative forces. * Path leading to new perceptions of colour relationships and dynamics. * Unique and stimulating approach to colour, art and aesthetics. * Enlivens Aristotle’s invitation to ‘delight in the senses’, by a renewed aesthetics that, refreshes the soul as a counter to the digital, virtual, screen, world. * Draws on the authors research into the colour theories of Aristotle and Rudolf Steiner so to develop 12 categories as ways of seeing. * Cultivates personal confidence and artistic clarity, and supports independent painting, research.

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