Color Wheel Theory

So in recent classes one thing that I had been considering was what the best way to understand what all of the genre's are of any given art form, and how they could be classified amongst other art genre's. Well after trying to just "think" of all of them in relation to how I have thought about them before, I changed the rules a little bit and came up with this:

This is an interesting device that I have been trying to use in the same fashion for what it was designed, with a twist of how it is laid out. The standard color wheel divides up and clarifies where every color visible to the human eye can be placed on a map of how to get there. Thus I concluded it would be wise to try and use it for this same purpose.

The way that the wheel is laid out allows for the most important "heads" of categories to be displayed as new colors that are a result of the combining of other colors on the wheel. This allows for dividing the complicated multi-genric categories in authority position, for when art and music are equally mixed we get Green, or Animation which would be an artistic film with just music.

Then, the next important thing to note is that the Tone qualities of color can be utilized to divide up all of the sub-categories or sub-genre's of the staple title colors. Thus when it is brought up that there are many genre's within "Music" it can be easily clarified that they are just seperate tones, not seperate colors.

What are your thoughts on this concept?

Response to Kim's Post

• In response to the post that Kim put up here: http://kimsartandphlilosophyblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/goodman-and-tolstoy.html?showComment=1301843217055#c3368452113288105104 This is what I hs to say:


• This is an interesting question you have brought up about Tolstoy and Goodman being similar in theories. I would say that they certainly do have similar views, but that Tolstoy isn't where we need to stop this conversation. I think that when it comes down to the synthesis of Goodman's concepts into similarities, there are three pillars that he pulls together into one:


• Tolstoy is certainly the emotion side of his theory,


• Plato's argument of the forms comes back into play,


• and Bell's concepts of aesthetics is the final piece.


• With the three of these theories brought together, we begin to see what the inspiration behind Goodman's work is. So yes, I do think that it is certainly a taste of Tolstoy, but I feel that we can't forget the other two in this discussion, for otherwise we begin to hide away from some of the other important things that are Goodman's philosophies.