Have students volunteer to share their analysis. Their notes should include the color categories (primary, secondary, tertiary) and the various kinds of color harmony (monochromatic, complementary, analogous, triadic) that are used in the costume. Ask students to read the handout, and, drawing upon what they learned, note on a piece of paper the color theory principles of the costume they chose in the previous activity. Distribute Handout 2 – Color Theory to each student.What does the outermost circle show? What are those colors the combination of?.What does the middle circle show? What are those colors combinations of?.What does the innermost circle show? (Students should note the primary colors.).What does this chart seem to be representing?.Have you seen a chart like this before?.Display Image 1 – The Color Wheel, and tell students that the foundation of color theory is represented in the color wheel.Tell students that today they will be examining the role color theory plays in creating visual designs.After completing the handout, have students volunteer to discuss their answers. Distribute Handout 1 – Musician Fashion.Are there any colors you won’t put together? Why?.Do you feel any combinations look particularly well on you?.Do you consider the combinations of colors you wear?.When you get dressed in the morning, how do you choose the various pieces of your outfit?.They then draw upon the color wheel as a tool to design their own album covers. In this lesson, students learn about the color theory, and use the color wheel to analyze musician fashion and album covers. His further investigations led to the creation of the principles of color theory, which today remains an essential tool for artists and designers alike.
Through these experiments, he demonstrated that light is responsible for creating color. In the 1660s, English mathematician, astronomer and scientist Sir Isaac Newton began experimenting with light by holding a prism against a window.
The Dark Side of the Moon album cover is a reference to a scientific discovery that has influenced visual artists for centuries. The design, created by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of the London-based photography and design collective Hipgnosis (with help from George Hardie), has been printed on the packaging of over 50 million recordings, and some suggest more than a billion people have laid eyes upon it. The cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most celebrated pieces of album artwork and commercial art ever created. It’s just an image–there’s no sound involved–yet it has become a visual icon of Rock music. It descends at an even pace until it passes beyond the right border of the canvas and vanishes just as mysteriously as it appeared. Then, from a source unknown, a beam of light shoots in from the left, hitting the triangle at such a precise upward angle that it miraculously travels through it, spilling out the other side in a perfect rainbow of color. A shape is added-three slender white lines merging to form a triangle.