Light and colour dynamy: the basis of visual and performative design

Abstract

This paper articulates the fundamental currency between theatre arts on the one hand and plastic/visual arts on the other. Although a very common assumption about the phrase, theatre arts, is that it is all about drama. But this paper draws attention to the flaw in this misconception and shows that the term refers to several other ‘arts' of which drama is merely one. Although drama is part of the ‘arts' of the theatre, so also are arts such as painting, sculpture, textile/costume design, scenic design etc, which are fine arts but inseparably subsumed in the practice of performance delivery. Theatre arts, then, is a composite of plastic/visual and performative arts of which light and colour are fundamental currencies. The paper then provides such understandings of the fundamental dynamics between light and colour in the specific context of visual design.

Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 6 (1) 2007: pp. 41-46