This color has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful - but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of ColoursLa teoría del color de Goethe y su relación con la personalidad del ser humano. El gran escritor e intelectual Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, con su obra sobre teoría del color, sentó las bases
But four years later, a painter by the name of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe disagreed with Newton. Instead of darkness being the absence of light, it was an active agent in creating color. In the wake of 1810, Goethe published Theory of Color. Despite its lack of mathematical concepts, it became the cornerstone of what we know about color today.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 Published/Created: New York Van Nostrand Reinhold 1971 Digital Collection: Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color Repository: Haas Arts Library Access Restrictions: Yale Community Only oidpointer_isi 10605579 Call number: QC495 G6413 1971 (LC)+ Oversize
Goethe's infers, from the opposing change in the afterimage. colors, a "desire" or effort toward compensation, balance or. "filling in the blank" that is induced when a strong color stimulus a girl in afterimage colors. is encountered by the eye in a situation where color is missing. watercolor by Goethe, c.1810.Renowned poet and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) claimed that his greatest contribution to the world was not his famous Faust (Part I in 1808 and Part II in 1832) or his best-selling 1774 epistolary novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther [Sorrows of Young Werther], the first German novel to achieve international fame, but was instead his scientific treatise on optics and colors
1. Imagination in Goethe's Experimental Critique of Newton. A stereotypical view of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ( 1749-1832) criticisms of the method and results of Isaac Newton's (1643-1727) theory of color might say the following. First, the poet, dedicated to the richness of life, objected to mathematical physics' analytical decomposition
German writer and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived from 1749 to 1832, was clearly a multi-talented individual.A celebrity in his native country by the time he was in his 20s, heFirst published in German in 1810, this detailed volume was translated from the German by Charles Lock Eastlake and, in six parts, examines every aspect of Goethe’s theory of colours, including psychological colours, chemical colours, the moral effect of colour, minerals, plants, insects, mammals and a multitude of further subjects.VKV0J.