Painting: Song of the Nightingale
by Hans Hoffman
1964, Oil on canvas
84 x 72 inches

Class notes on Color, SAIC, 1992

Strive for awareness of movement from:

• warm to cool
• bright to dull
• repetition to change
• quiet to noisy

Know that you are:

• warming or cooling it or dulling it
• giving it more bite or less harshness
• creating a more precise opposition to a color already on the canvas.

Three colors are sufficient to mix.
Avoid mud and brashness (color that go nowhere).

Hue:

• qualities that affect our perception of a patch of color:
• brightness
• coolness
• resonance
• tactility
• directness
• contextual functions, like variations, shift, and climax.