Reviews for How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Redesign, Redecorating, and Home Staging Business: With Companion CD-ROM

The average rating for How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Redesign, Redecorating, and Home Staging Business: With Companion CD-ROM based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-28 00:00:00 Margie Schaffer Good information here on color use. Hits lots of topics that I have seen overlooked by other color theory instruction i.e. artistic process, use of grays, impact of quantity/brilliance/hue in color-to-color relationships. The book uses many long and detailed descriptions of processes and relationships. These would be better explained by diagrams and images of the processes. The book also references specific works as illustration of particular color use but does not include photos of these works. Adding the diagrams and images would strengthen the book and ease the communication of key concepts. Philosophically the work is fully immersed in a Modernist school of thought. This is as it should be since the work was written during the heyday of Modernism at the Bauhaus. That said, it is important to keep this in mind while reading the text and critically consider some of the grand narratives and stable meanings that may or may not hold water. This approach will offer the reader the best possible experience. For all the modernist ideas, there is a tip of the hat given to subjectivity and the need for the artist to develop their own sensibilities. This counterpoint is a seedling for post-modernism and contemporary perspectives.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-24 00:00:00 Allen Rogers Parts of this book were completely eye opening for me, and other parts were difficult to understand the first time around. However, I absolutely found it fascinating to see Itten's examples of his history and theory of color in art through listing concrete examples of some of the most famous artist's work through time. After studying the physics of light and color a little more in-depth, Itten's theories made more sense, and his book became easier to understand. Finally, I "get it" - even more so now than when I was studying Color Theory as a fine arts student 20+ years ago. A must-read for anyone interested in Color Theory or the history of color in art.