Brief: This project incorporates Bauhaus professor Johannes Itten's ideas on color harmony into a mobile light installation.
Keywords: Light installation, lamp, color wheel, ambient, complimentary colors, mobile, Bauhaus.
In his seminal book on color theory "The Art of Color" ("Kunst der Farbe"), Johannes Itten outlined how to find complimentary colors using the red yellow blue (RYB) color wheel.
Itten designed a Color Star for giving students of art and design a means for creating harmonies in their compositions by selecting colors on the wheel that lay in specific relation to one another (120 degrees, 90 degrees, etc.).
This light installation uses Itten's Color Star as a basis for selecting four harmonious colors - each of which will be displayed in one component of a moving lamp. As the lamp slowly rotates, the color wheel will also rotate, selecting four new harmonious colors.
The lamp will have 4 circular bulbs, each of which will display its own unique color. The bulbs will intersect with one-another in the center. The base of the lamp will stand on a motor, rotating the lamp in 360-degrees. The base will be mounted from the ceiling.
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