TRIANGULATED STRUCTURES

"DESIGN AND BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT YOUR OWN WEIGHT FROM A MATERIAL LIKE PAPER, IF IT IS RECYCLED, BETTER"

CHROMATIC CIRCLE

Before beginning to paint by using colors, students from SIES Humanes in Cubas have been experimeting with the chormatic circle. A color circle, based on magenta, yellow and cyan, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666. Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept. A chromatic circle is a visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship.

Some of the students have painted a 36 color wheel and the rest have tried only with 12 colors. In order to paint a chromatic circle you have to begin by positioning primary hues (cyan, yellow and magenta) equidistant from one another, then create a bridge between primary colors using secondary (orange, green and violet) and tertiary colors. In this way you  get a 12 color circle. If you would like to obtain a 36 color circle, you have to mix the obtained colors with white and black and you have it!!!

GOTHIC STAINED GLASSES

In the 12th century, as Gothic cathedrals began popping up all across Europe, those in charge of decorating these fabulous structures were faced with a new challenge: Given the grand scale and great importance of these bildings, how should they be decorated? Gothic artists responded to this challenge in a variety of ways. On the outside, Gothic sculptors decked their cathedrals with an ever-growing array of decorative sculptures. On the inside, Gothic glaziers took advantage of advances in Gothic engineering to build soaring walls of stained glass, flooding the interior with light.

These stained glass windows were the multimedia stories of their day. Since very few people could read at the time, stained glass windows offered illiterate Christians a glimpse into the tales of the Bible. Fitting pieces of glass together in lead frames, Gothic glaziers wrote the stories of the Bible, not in word, but in light.