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Hal Rogoff December 30, 1925 - December 13, 2012
Born Seymour Harold Rogoff; was an artist, poet, sculptor, inventor, teacher, and world class art restorer who devoted his life to the study of how human beings perceive color. Color As Light Energy Historical Institute is dedicated to providing an accurate historical record of the important contributions Hal Rogoff made to human color perception and the Op Art Movement. Hal Rogoff, Josef Albers' first protegé at Yale University, was instrumental in the 1950's op art movement. While doing his graduate work with Josef Albers', Rogoff presented a color principle, now known as contrast reversal, that was previously considered impossible to achieve. His original color study of this work, called 'Yellow Diamonds'-1952, was published in the Joseph Albers' book, 'The Interaction of Color'. Today this color concept is easily discovered in many Psych 101 text books.
Combining his own curiosity regarding human color perception, Josef Albers powerful experimental techniques for exploring color and a passion encouraged by his personal mentor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Rogoff became the first artist to successfully paint with the concept of color as light energy. His amazing works noticeably changed even Albers' personal approach to color. This approach resulted from extrapolating the physics of light and human bio-chemistry discoveries of the early twentieth century to better understand how our eyes and our brains interpret color. Rogoff's hard-edge geometric artwork both aesthetically appeals to our senses and intellectually demonstrates his color theory experiments. Using this approach he corrected several existing color principles and discovered many that were previously unknown.
Rogoff believed that his art would provide a road-map by which future artists, and anyone else working with visual media, could make better use of color and learn to master the visual language. His work influenced contemporaries such as: Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanszack. It also led to several changes in our daily lives, including modifying the color of highway safety signs across the nation, saving innumerable lives.
Born Seymour Harold Rogoff; was an artist, poet, sculptor, inventor, teacher, and world class art restorer who devoted his life to the study of how human beings perceive color. Color As Light Energy Historical Institute is dedicated to providing an accurate historical record of the important contributions Hal Rogoff made to human color perception and the Op Art Movement. Hal Rogoff, Josef Albers' first protegé at Yale University, was instrumental in the 1950's op art movement. While doing his graduate work with Josef Albers', Rogoff presented a color principle, now known as contrast reversal, that was previously considered impossible to achieve. His original color study of this work, called 'Yellow Diamonds'-1952, was published in the Joseph Albers' book, 'The Interaction of Color'. Today this color concept is easily discovered in many Psych 101 text books.
Combining his own curiosity regarding human color perception, Josef Albers powerful experimental techniques for exploring color and a passion encouraged by his personal mentor, R. Buckminster Fuller, Rogoff became the first artist to successfully paint with the concept of color as light energy. His amazing works noticeably changed even Albers' personal approach to color. This approach resulted from extrapolating the physics of light and human bio-chemistry discoveries of the early twentieth century to better understand how our eyes and our brains interpret color. Rogoff's hard-edge geometric artwork both aesthetically appeals to our senses and intellectually demonstrates his color theory experiments. Using this approach he corrected several existing color principles and discovered many that were previously unknown.
Rogoff believed that his art would provide a road-map by which future artists, and anyone else working with visual media, could make better use of color and learn to master the visual language. His work influenced contemporaries such as: Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanszack. It also led to several changes in our daily lives, including modifying the color of highway safety signs across the nation, saving innumerable lives.
"What is color? Color is light. What is light? Light is
energy! What is energy? Energy is power! Why not
put that power to work for us? Why not think of color
as energy and work with it as energy?"
Seymour Hal Rogoff
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Color As Light Energy Historical Institute is dedicated to providing an accurate historical record
of the important contributions Hal Rogoff made to human color perception and the Op Art Movement.
of the important contributions Hal Rogoff made to human color perception and the Op Art Movement.
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