Lecture Summary: 10/22/10

Surrealist Art:
Post WWI
Features:
-Less political?
-New psychological theories of Sigmund Freud
-1899 "The Interpretation of Dreams"
-Access to the subconscious mind

Early Surreal Artists:
-Max Ernst
-Rene Magritte
-Salvador Dali
-Giorgio De Chirico
-Man Ray
-Jean Arp

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Color:
Hue- Location of color wheel
Value- Lightness or darkness
Saturation- Distance from neutral gray purity of color experience
  -Saturation is also known as intensity, chroma, and richness

Contrasts:
-Of light and dark
-Hues
-Saturation
-Color proportion
-Warm and cold
-Complementary colors
Simultaneous color

After the lecture we were given the assignment to make our own color swatches on the Kuler website.