Color Balance >>
John F. Simon, Jr.
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[Intro] John F. Simon Jr. has transformed the contemporary definition of color in his
work Color Balance through arithmetic and logical operations by attaching
characteristics previously not associated with color. Simon saw a need to
represent or demonstrate a physical balance and the sense of perpetual balance
needed to arrange color in a composition. He suggests with his work Color
Balance that color can be categorized by weight. Color Balance behaves like a
scale, a horizontal bar with weighing pans at either end. Rather than standard
weights, the items placed in the pans are rectangles of color. The balance
shifts back and forth as rectangles are added and removed or the hue of the
colors are altered. It reconciles these seemingly immeasurable sums by
representing color as a number. By digitizing color values, its quality becomes
quantity.
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