Color Basics
Color Relationships
The Color Wheel
Artists
100
This is the term for colors made by mixing two primary colors.
What are secondary colors?
100
These colors are associated with fire and heat.
What are warm colors?
100
These colors sit next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
100
This artist explored perception of color through interaction in works like Interaction of Color.
Who was Josef Albers?
200
This refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
200
These are the three properties of color.
What are hue, value, and saturation?
200
Color that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
200
This artists Blue Period focused heavily on monochromatic color schemes.
Who was Picasso?
300
This term refers to the actual color name.
What is hue?
300
The color you get when you mix complimentary colors together.
What is a neutralized (gray or brown)?
300
This color scheme uses one base color plus all its variations in value and saturation.
What is monochromatic?
300
An example of this color scheme.
What is analogous?
400
This term describes the intensity or purity of a color.
What is saturation?
400
Black, white, and gray are known as this type of color.
What is achromatic?
400
This scheme uses three evenly spaced colors on the color wheel.
What is triadic?
400
Credited with the invention of the color wheel.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
500
The range of wavelengths of radiant energy that can be distinguished by the human eye.
What is the visible spectrum?
500
This effect occurs when surrounding colors change how we perceive a color.
What is simultaneous contrast?
500
This more complex scheme uses a base color and two adjacent to its compliment.
What is a split compliment?
500
Known for her op art works.
Who is Bridget Riley?