Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
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)
Episodes
41 episodes
A Sherlock Holmes Color Theory Odyssey
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 Stude...
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1:22:10
Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs
Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perceptionColour Literacy Project:
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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40:27
A Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel Project
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):
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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43:51
Color and Emotion
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.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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45:44
Camouflage
Welcome to Season 4! Lost and Found: Abbott Thayer and The Study of Camouflage. Martin Stevens
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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50:52
TV Party Tonight
The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons.The Book of Colour Concepts, Alexandra Loske and Sarah...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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59:07
Interview with Gamma Jeanne: I Love Blue
Interview with Gamma Jeanne; a departure from our more in-depth discussions of color theory. Jeanne's career as an artist spans over nine decades and includes working with acrylic paints in the 1940s and being at the center of department store ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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50:45
The Eclipse: Purkinje Shift Reprise
CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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27:47
Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm
Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skow...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:17:53
Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color
A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this epi...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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45:10
Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience
A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here.Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:08:18
Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color
Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this epis...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:05:06
Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour
Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources relate...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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49:35
Interview with Jeremy Szopinski: Abstract Landscape Painting
I interview painter Jeremy Szopinski who is a good friend and longtime studio mate. For more information about the podcast and Jeremy's artworks, check out this website link.
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:57
Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction
The final episode of Season 2; includes a correction to the Mary Gartside episode from Season 1. The first version of this episode erroneously stated a connection between Mary Gartside and the writing of Johann von Goethe. This new episode was ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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30:48
Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1
Part one of a reading of an essay I am writing, Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction.Human color vision adapts to the changing environment in many ways. Pupils dilate and constrict in order to regulate the amount of light e...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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33:44
Red, White, Gray, and Black
Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme.
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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29:59
Color Theory and the Grocery Store
A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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19:25
Harmony part 3: A New Canon
Part 3 of 3: The final installment, A New Canon, places the work of color theorists, Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in historical context so as to examine how their inclusion (and by extension, additional underrepresented col...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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16:09
Harmony part 2
Part 2 of 3. In this episode, I read the middle portion of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.)Abstract:This essay charts how the term harmony came to b...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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16:13
Harmony part 1
Part 1 of 3. In this episode, I read the beginning of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.)Abstract:This essay charts how the term harmony came to be use...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:11
Primary Colors part 3
Welcome to Season 2! This episode features a correction on the first episode of Season 1, followed by the continued investigation of how red, yellow, and blue became known widely as primary colors.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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