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The Color Wheel and Color schemes
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Additive color
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Subtractive colors
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Hue: Color The words hue and color can be used interchangeably as the name for a given color. Red is a hue, Red-Orange is a hue. Light green is not a hue. Brownish-pink is not a hue.
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Primary And Secondary Colors RED/ Green BLUE/ Orange Yellow/ Violet
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Tertiary colors: Primary+sec ondary colors Yellow-Green Yellow-Orange Red-Orange Red-Violet Blue-Violet Blue-Green
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Pierre Bonnard: Tertiary colors: yellow orange, blue violet,
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Monochromatic color scheme Uses only one color and a variety of tints (white added) and shades (black or grey added) of that color
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Analogous color schemes Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a very unified design, but with more visual interest than in a monochromatic scheme.
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Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange
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Wolf Kahn: yellow orange, yellow, Red-orange (blue accents)
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Blue violet, violet, blue
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Yellow-orange, orange, red orange, red
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Complementary color scheme Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel are complements. Complementary Color schemes utilize one complementary dyad (pair). Red-----Green Blue-----orange Yellow----purple
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These are very eye-catching designs, but have the potential to be very jarring. Your choice of saturation will be very important.
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Andy Warhol
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Split-complementary color scheme A color combined with the two colors surrounding it’s complement. slightly more sophisticated and less aggressive than a complementary scheme. Purple—Yellow-orange—Yellow-green
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Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange
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Green, red-violet, red-orange
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Kehinde Wiley Red-Orange; Blue; Green
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Red, Blue-green, Yellow-green
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Quadratic Four colors, equally spaced in the color-wheel
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Willem DeKooning Blue-violet---Yellow-Orange Green---Red
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Triadic Color Scheme 3 equally spaced colors
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Triadic Color Scheme: Red-Yellow-Blue
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Fake Mondrian: Red, Yellow, Blue
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Bridget Riley Blue-green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange
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Purple, Orange, Green
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Name this scheme!!
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Name this color scheme!!!
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Color Evocations Color in composition
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Malevich, Suprematist Painting
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Matisse, Icarus
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Vernon Fisher, Observations Observed
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Bacon, Crucifixion
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Emil Nolde, Crucifixion
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Matisse Warm colors : Reds, oranges, yellows, Some violets
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Egon Schiele, Portrait of Paris von Gutersloh Warm Colors: what effect do warm colors have on a composition?
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Cool Helen Frankenthaler Cool colors: Blues, greens, some violets
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TINTS: Color + White Shades: Color + Black
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Mary Cassatt, A kiss for baby Anne, ---How does the use of tints relate to the content of the piece?
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Mark Rothko How does the use of SHADES affect our read of this piece? What is the emotional content?
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Ryan McGinness Full Saturation, aka, HIGH KEY colors
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Gauguin, Nightmare
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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas
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Sandy Skoglund, Radioactive Cats
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Diebenkorn, Interior with View of Sea
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Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World
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Andrew Wyeth, Teel’s Island
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Van Gogh, Night Cafe
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What do these colors suggest?
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What do these colors evoke?
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Candy ColoredEvocations?
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Chaz Maviyane-Davis
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Chaz
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The Guerilla Girls
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Edward Munch, The Scream
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Picasso, the Old Guitarist
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