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Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast

Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast

By: Ed Charbonneau
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This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation, Fine Arts, and Creative Entrepreneurship Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)

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Episodes
  • A Sherlock Holmes Color Theory Odyssey

    A Sherlock Holmes Color Theory Odyssey
    Apr 21 2025

    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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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs

    Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs
    Mar 19 2025

    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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    40 mins
  • A Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Project

    A Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Project
    Feb 17 2025

    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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    44 mins
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Great discussions about how we perceive colour and art. I’m really enjoying each episode - I’m an Art and Media teacher in Australia.

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