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Color Theory for the Visual Arts

X403 (2 semester units in Art)

Artists can strengthen their use of color by understanding how colors interact and what conditions create harmony and disharmony. This lecture/studio course is designed as a foundation for basic painting and is a valuable resource for artists and designers. The course includes lectures and projects on perception and color intensity, the value scale and simultaneous contrast, the effects and physics of color, and theories on color psychology.

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Thurs. Sept. 17, San Francisco

EVA BOVENZI, M.F.A., has taught at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco State University, and many other Bay Area institutions. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented in San Francisco by the Toomey-Tourell Gallery.

NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.

• $455 (EDP 011924)

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