[Maths-Education] Maths-Art Seminars at London Knowledge Lab: Roy Osborne, 'Directing the viewer's attention', 10 February

[Phillip Kent]

*** PLEASE CIRCULATE ** ALL WELCOME **

DIRECTING THE VIEWER'S ATTENTION

An LKL Maths-Art seminar by
Roy Osborne
Tuesday 10 February, 6.00 - 7.30pm

This talk will discuss the relationship between realism and abstraction
in painting,  and the relationship between the painted surface and the
illusion of depth created by shadow, overlapping and perspective. A
consistent interest has been the relationship of colour and form,
expressed in terms of ambiguity of form, implied transparency of form,
and repetition of form, as well as controlled and random visual search
patterns. Another interest has been colour theorye expressed by
simultaneous contrast of colour and optical colour mixing, as
well as use of both the classical four-colour palette and the spectral
six-colour palette. Most of Roy's paintings employ geometrical divisions
of the whole, and others are based on grids and regular and irregular
patterns.

Roy Osborne is a painter, educator and writer on colour theory. He
taught printmaking in Brighton, Bradford, and at the Slade School,
before first visiting the USA in 1974. His 'Lights and Pigments' (1980)
was the first artists’ colour book to emphasise vision and link new and
traditional art media. He has since taught and lectured on art at over
100 colleges in the UK and over 50 in Australia, Canada and the USA. His
'Bends', 'Heraldic' and 'Circular Forms' series all explore colour
contrast and geometrical division of the picture area. In 1989 he
curated an exhibition, 'Colour Theory and Practice in Modern British
Painting'. He published 'Color Influencing Form' and 'Books on Colour
1500-2000' in 2004./


TIME: 6.00 - 7.30pm, Tuesday 10 February 2009
PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS
[Travel information / Maps at: http://bit.ly/LKL-MathsArt-venue ]

All welcome. No reservation required, but an email to
lkl.maths.art at gmail.com would be appreciated for planning purposes

Next seminars: March 10th, speaker TBA; April 14, Richard Henry, 'The
Language of Symmetry in Islamic Art'.

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Dr Phillip Kent
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS
p.kent at ioe.ac.uk
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