Mixing and Tinting
Adding white to a color to make it lighter in value
Tinting
Red, Blue, Yellow
An impressionist painting is one that shows the paint strokes.
Painterly
When French and American Impressionism took place (mid to late ***)
Adding black to a color to make it darker in value
Shading
What are the secondary colors?
Green, Purple, and Orange
This amount of detail is left out of impressionist paintings.
The original intention of the term "Impressionist" when coined by a critic.
An insult
Adding gray to a color to neutralize it
Toning
What are the intermediate or tertiary colors?
blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green
The French term for painting outdoors.
En Plein Air
Critics often thought the paintings looked this way due to their painterly quality.
Messy
A smooth transition from one color or value to another.
Gradient
Colors located directly ACROSS from each other on the color wheel.
Complementary colors
The feeling or emotion a painting displays, despite its "messy" appearance
Tone
Artists went outside to paint subjects like sunsets quickly because of this natural phenomenon.
The sky color would change over time.
Very vibrant or “loud” colors (think neon)
Saturated Colors
Colors located NEXT TO each other on the color wheel.
Analogous colors
The two elements the art focused on, not the object itself.
Color and Light
This famous artist painted the same content at different times of the day.
Claude Monet