Color in Contemporary Painting: Integrating Practice and Theory [The color experience -- Color as visual idea -- Color theory: what the practicing artist needs to know -- Albers and his legacy -- Structural color: building an image with color blocks -- Figure / ground relationships: making space work for you -- Basic color harmonies: striking the right chord -- Color as gesture -- Color and light -- expressionism -- Advanced color games: transition and counterpoint]

1st ed., 1st printing ; 224 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780823007387, 0823007383 ; OCLC 22763449 ; blue cloth in color dustjacket ; Contents: The color experience -- Color as visual idea -- Color theory: what the practicing artist needs to know -- Albers and his legacy -- Structural color: building an image with color blocks -- Figure / ground relationships: making space work for you -- Basic color harmonies: striking the right chord -- Color as gesture -- Color and light -- expressionism -- Advanced color games: transition and counterpoint ; The joy of color expressed by world-class artists is interpreted as practical advice for professional and student painters. This book explores the ways color is used in art through the work of brilliant 20th-century painters Milton Avery, Jasper Johns, and others. Color theory and history are integrated with how-tos on applying color structurally, spatially, gesturally, and symbolically. ; Born in Columbia, Missouri, Le Clair studied at the University of Wisconsin and went on to teach art at numerous schools, including the University of Alabama, Albright Art School in Buffalo, and Chatham College in Pittsburgh, before becoming dean of Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 1960. One of his most significant contributions to the lives of aspiring artists was establishing Tyler School of Art in Rome in 1966. Le Clair was widely known as a gifted watercolorist and oil painter, and his work has been exhibited at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art inWashington, DC; the Art Institute of Chicago, and other galleries and major museums. ; FINE/FINE.…