What is Colour?

online course

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‘‘Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and it’s absence, are necessary to the production of colour…1"

Enlarge your personal palettes, knowledge and fabrication of colour. Let Goethe and former Bauhaus’ enthusiasts guide your contemporary mastering of how to employ and articulate colour. Revitalising your perception and use of hue reliant upon colour’s properties, form and application.

Theoretical bases underpin this two-week, online platform to play with colour. The course travels from hands-on experimentation to intensifying hue understanding; expanding potential applications to practice and actioning colour anew.

Addressing the cannon of colour theory (visiting, first hand Goethe’s archive to reviving Bauhaus’, Itten, Klee, Kandinsky, and successor, Albers implementations) with three main contemporary objectives: discovering, colours’ properties, how colour is employed.

An online delivery of demos, group discussions and activity will support individual testing and making with tutor- (and student-) led exercises and feed forward instruction. By the end of this course students will walk away with a personalised colour swatchbook, and have confidently, re-evaluated and re-equipped their own colour comprehension and palettes for practice.

In addition to the class programme, we have prepared a varied social programme for you: Meet participants from all over the world during our gaming night, the international food evening, at a joint free visit to the cinema, on a trip to Berlin or Leipzig or when diving into the vast cultural options that Weimar has to offer.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Course leader

Alexandra Jane Roberts

Target group

The course is designed for architects, artists and designers, as well as creative and curious students of all disciplines.

Course aim

• Individual testing and hands-on experimentation
• Incorporating broad interdisciplinary range of practices - the painter, designer, surface/print maker, textile stylist or stage designer. Methods include: making hues, exercising paint, pigments, dye, staining, projecting tinted light, digital production, compositional play, collage, assembling forms (2D, 3D, scenic), while considering gesture, action, disposition, signals and balance.
• Creating personalised colour swatchbook & re-evaluating their own colour palattes for practice

Fee info

EUR 700: 2 weeks (90 hrs)

The course fee is 700 EUR.

The course fee includes:

• Orientation & Support
• Programme according to description
• Teaching materials
• Bauhaus Summer School ID card
• Certificate
• Internet access at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Free use of library
• Accompanying programme (except excursions)
• Free entrance to museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar
EUR 500: 2 weeks (90 hrs)

The course fee for students & alumni is 500 EUR.
The course fee for BUW students is 300 EUR.

The course fee includes:

• Orientation & Support
• Programme according to description
• Teaching materials
• Bauhaus Summer School ID card
• Free use of buses in Weimar and local trains in Thuringia
• Certificate
• Internet access at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Free use of library
• Accompanying programme (except excursions)
• Free entrance to museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar