Two theories of light: Prismatic and pigment Prismatic: light and how it is reflected Pigment: colors reflected by pigments Color wheel divided into cool and warm tones Cool colors have blue base and warm colors have red base White-purity, cleanliness, used as an accent Black: associated with darkness, evil and night. Sophistication Red: fire, passion, anger, irritation Pink: light sweet and takes away the power of red Yellow: Happiness, sunshine and light, heat and dryness Gold: wealth, luxury and charisma Blue: nature, sky, night and ocean, peace and distance Green: mixture of yellow and blue, nature, growth and freshness Orange: mixture of red and yellow, has passion of red and cheeriness of yellow Peach: a tint of orange, cheery Brown: shade of orange, mother earth, earthy, stable Purple: mixture of red and blue, dignified color, can be very depressing Gray: neutral, can be tinted warm and cool Silver: a variation of gray, neutral Simplify by using color themes and color chords Col...
Art Of Color Color effects are in the eye of the beholder Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration Color theory was not taught but rather thought to be part of the artist In China the sense of color became cultivated as colors become more naturalistic and ceramics evolved new glazes Mosaic artists were able to produce complementary colors Grey light was achieved by bathing the blue mosaic walls of the interior in an orange light, filtered through narrow windows of orange alabaster Orange and blue make grey as they are complementary colors Early stained glass only had few colors Romanesque and early gothic artists wanted very bright colors to use as symbols Giatto and sienese school were the first painters to paint the human figures in color Hubert and Jan Van ecky painted humans realistically Color became a means of characterizing natural objects el Greco was considered a progenitor of non objective categories The art of the empire and classical periods colorati...
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