Description. Though best known for his superlative poetry and plays, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) also produced a sizable body of scientific work that focused on such diverse topics as plants, color, clouds, weather, and geology. Goethe's way of science is highly unusual because it seeks to draw together the intuitive awareness of art
Goethe's theory of colours. by. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Theory of Colours (original German title, Zur Farbenlehre) is a book published by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1810. It contains some of the earliest and most accurate descriptions of coloured shadows, refraction, dioptrical colours, and achromatism / hyperchromatism. A number of philosophers and physicists, including Arthur Schopenhauer
Goethe and Schopenhauer: perceptual colour and colour aesthetics Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poet and artist), published his Theory of Colors in 1810 (Figure 1.9). He was dismissed by many, perhaps because he refuted Newton’s theories of colour by suggesting that colour was subjectively experienced.
Yellow is light which has been dampened by darkness; Blue is a darkness weakened by light. The color spectrum is the overlap between light and dark, the meeting of opposites. Light in a dark room, shadow in a lit room. Red is in between yellow and blue. Goethe's color theory inspired the color wheel of chromatic opposites.
Steiner also completed a study of Goethe’s morphological writings, and was in Weimar between 1890 and 1897 to contribute to the publishing of Goethe’s complete works. During that time, he was also responsible for publishing the Colour Theory, for which he composed a preface and edited the notes.
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