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The aim of my thesis on colour theories of the Enlightenment and their influence on avant-garde art, was to show the different approaches of modernist artists to the tradition of colour research at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The starting point of the text is the critical analysis of Newton's colour theory, which was conducted by Goethe. The emphasis on empirical experience, which laid the basis of this new science, had a big influence on the work of painter and friend Philipp Otto Runge. The synesthetic theory of George Field also shows an interesting connection to the work of the fin de siècle. The symbolist colour theories are discussed because of their importance to the artists who opened the path to abstract painting, for example Frantisek Kupka, Pieter Mondrian and Vasilij Kandinskij. A chapter was also dedicated to Robert Delaunay, who developed a very sophisticated explanation of how to represent movement in colour contrasts. The American synchronists, who were very proud of their specific artistic movement, were also inspired by Orphism. An important part of the thesis is the focus on Bauhaus artists. Some of them were influenced by the painter Adolf Hölzel, a native of Olmütz in Moravia, who was very interested in Goethe's Farbenlehre. Johannes Itten, a student of Goethe's, was the...

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Subject of investigation is the name of the colour. Task of investigation: to disclose refinements of using the colour names, the meaning added by colour to collocation of phraseological units and function of the colour in the phraseological units and collocations by comparing Russian and Lithuanian collocations and phraseological units having colour name in their composition. In order to perform the task, 80 prhaseological units in Russian, 135 in Lithuanian and 200 collocations in the both languages were collected. In the practical part we analysed usage of the colour names found in the phraseological units and collocations, established the meaning and connotation granted by colour meaning in a word combination. Phraseological units were allocated into the following four groups: 1. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings and component compositions; 2. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings but differing in component compositions; 3. Phraseological units, different in their meanings but similar with component compositions; 4. Phraseological units, different in their meanings and component compositions. Collocations were allocated as follows: 1. Collocations with the meaning, describing human feelings; 2. Collocations, describing life realities; 3. Collocations, describing appearance of a person; 4. Collocations, describing nature; 5. Collocations, describing historical past or today’s topicalities; 6. The rest collocations (specific to a single language... [to full text]

A good communication is a strategic marketing issue for all companies. This communication can be led through several assets such as logos. A well-built logo allows company’s identification in a world which is surrounded by brands. The logo consists in two key aspects: shape and colour. This paper proposes a reflexion concerning the use of colours in marketing following all the factors that affect it such as trends, culture and values. The study of companies’ logos colours may lead to a model which could help companies to decide on the colours they will use according to the message they want to transmit to the target population. After studying three hundred logos of companies all over the world, some clusters appear which gather companies sharing the same colours usage, values, culture and time vision through their logos. This reflexion leads to a set of colours trends which can be followed by companies afterwards.

The main subject of the master thesis analysing the poetry of K. I. Galczynski. I would like to introduce Polish and foreign readers with his colourfull and imaginated reality of 1940-50th years.

In this thesis, I explore the star formation histories of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. In Part 1,1 present an in-depth study of the star formation histories of spiral galaxies with a wide range of properties. Optical and near-infrared colours are used in conjunction with up-to-date stellar population synthesis models to constrain the ages and metallicities of my sample galaxies. I find that age and metallicity gradients are common in spiral galaxies of all types. The age of a spiral galaxy correlates mainly with its surface brightness, and its metallicity correlates strongly with both its surface brightness and absolute magnitude. Using simple models, I demonstrate that the correlations observed in this thesis show that the star formation history of a region within a galaxy depends primarily on its surface density, and possibly on the dynamical time. Metal- enriched outflow from low mass galaxies seems to be required to reproduce a reasonably strong metallicity-magnitude correlation. These variations in star formation history are a continuous function of the physical parameters: in particular, I find no evidence for a bimodal spiral galaxy surface brightness distribution. In Part 2, I present a short study on the formation epoch of early-type galaxies. I developed a photometric redshift estimator optimised for redshifts z ~ 1. The redshift estimator provides redshifts accurate to ~ 10 per cent. This redshift estimator is then applied to a sample of morphologically-selected early-type galaxies in the northern Hubble Deep Field. Comparison of their colour-magnitude relation with a passively evolved Coma cluster colour-magnitude relation indicates that over half of the sample must form at redshifts greater than two.

This thesis studies the use of colour information for object recognition. A new representation for objects with multiple colours - the colour adjacency graph (CAG) - is proposed. Each node of the CAG represents a single chromatic component of the image defined as a set of pixels forming a unimodal cluster in the chromatic scattergram. Edges encode information about adjacency of colour components and their reflectance ratio. The CAG is related to both the histogram and region adjacency graph representations. It is shown to be preserving and combining the best features of these two approaches while avoiding their drawbacks. The proposed approach is tested on a range of difficult object recognition and localisation problems involving complex imagery of non rigid 3D objects under varied viewing conditions with excellent results.