Color in the Arts

This is a portal with links to articles on my sites about Color in films and painting.

Film

Film Directors (these articles discuss the directors' color approaches, along with many other aspects of their films):

My list of purple-and-yellow costumes in film and comic books.

My own mystery short story, set against making a film in two-color Technicolor (light-hearted fun):

"If it be true, as veteran Polish director Aleksander Ford once observed, that the cinema of tomorrow is the cinema of wide screen and color, then Sirk's formal achievements will have led the way towards a more sensuous future." Andrew Sarris, "The American Cinema" (1968).

My 10 favorite uses of color in Music Videos:

Gino Vanelli: Black Cars (Derek Burbidge)
ELO: So Serious (Peter Christopherson)
Art of Noise: Peter Gunn Theme (Matt Forrett)
Whitney Houston: How Will I Know? (Brian Grant)
Cyndi Lauper: She-Bop (Edd Griles)
DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night (Peter Heath)
Wham!: Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (Andy Morahan)
Elton John: I'm Still Standing (Russell Mulcahey)
Lionel Richie: All Night Long (Bob Rafelson)
ABC: Poison Arrow (Julien Temple)
Pet Shop Boys: What Have I Done To Deserve This? (Eric Watson)

Painting

Kazimir Malevich, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova

American Still Life Painting

Mystery Fiction

Writers of prose mystery fiction include color imagery in their stories:

Ellery Queen, and the section on his use of color.
Rex Stout, and the section on his use of color.
Edward D. Hoch, and the section on his use of color.
Cornell Woolrich, and the section on his use of light-and-color.
Helen McCloy, and the sections on Color Symbolism, Twilight.
Aaron Marc Stein / George Bagby / Hampton Stone, and the section on his use of color.