Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
Ed Charbonneau
This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation, Fine Arts, and Creative Entrepreneurship Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
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Red, White, Gray, and Black
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
02/28/23 • 29 min
Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme.
Color Theory and the Grocery Store
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
12/27/22 • 19 min
A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes.
Harmony part 3: A New Canon
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
11/29/22 • 16 min
Part 3 of 3: The final installment, A New Canon, places the work of color theorists, Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in historical context so as to examine how their inclusion (and by extension, additional underrepresented color theorists and practitioners) may help us to understand how we may expand our contemporary approaches to color usage in all creative visual fields.
Primary Colors part 3
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
08/29/22 • 31 min
Welcome to Season 2!
This episode features a correction on the first episode of Season 1, followed by the continued investigation of how red, yellow, and blue became known widely as primary colors.
Purple: The Color That Doesn't Exist?
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
12/28/21 • 24 min
Discussion of additive spectral color mixing and how our perception of purple may be the result of our minds experiencing a negative green.
Primary Colors part 2: Optical Mixing
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
09/28/21 • 45 min
Turquoise and Yellow: Measuring the Gap in My Knowledge in Parsecs
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
03/19/25 • 40 min
Guardian website: Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception
Colour Literacy Project: Resources
Science How Stuff Works: Earth's Oldest Color was Pink
Martin Bricelj Baraga (cyanometer art installation): Cyanometer
Color categories in thought and language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi. Cambridge University Press, New York: 1997
Encyclopedia of Color Science and technology (UC Irvine): World Color Survey
Space.com: Parsec
Afterimages & Complementary Colors
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
12/21/21 • 22 min
Discussion of how afterimages occur when the cones of the retina tire and weaken due to overstimulation, allowing other cones to briefly play a more dominant role in vision, and how that lead to the establishment of complementary colors.
A Sherlock Holmes Color Theory Odyssey
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast
04/21/25 • 82 min
More background on competing histories of color harmony , and a reprise of episodes from Season 1, Color Theory Wars parts 1 and 2.
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, Sacred Bones Records publisher
Newton's Optiks, 1704, Project Gutenberg ebook
Goethe's Theory of Colors, 1810 (1840 translated by Charles Lock Eastlake) Project Gutenberg ebook
Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors, 1816, AbeBooks
Spinal Tap, Jazz Odyssey, 1984
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FAQ
How many episodes does Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast have?
Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast currently has 41 episodes available.
What topics does Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Art History, Art, Design, Podcasts, Arts and Vision.
What is the most popular episode on Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast?
The episode title 'Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast?
The average episode length on Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast released?
Episodes of Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast are typically released every 27 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast?
The first episode of Chromosphere: The Color Theory Podcast was released on Sep 28, 2021.
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