Color Factoids
Color Schemes
Basic Colors
Color Feelings
Expressionism
100
These are colors between a primary and secondary color on the color wheel
What are tertiary colors?
100
A color scheme in which two colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel is called (Hint: this color scheme 'pops'!)
What are complementary colors?
100
These colors cannot be created by mixing any other colors (red, yellow, and blue)
What are primary colors?
100
This color would make most people feel calm or cold
What is blue?
100
An art movement in which an artist's personal expression of inner experiences was emphasized
What is expressionism?
200
This word beginning with the letter 'S' refers to a color with black added to it
What is a shade?
200
Colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel are called
What are analogous colors?
200
This important element of art is seen by the way that light reflects off a surface
What is color?
200
This color is said to be environmental and it gives a feeling of harmony, balance, and restoration
What is green?
200
This type of art was started in a New York school of painting and is characterized by freely created abstractions
What is abstract expressionism?
300
This word beginning with the letter 'T' refers to a color with white added to it
What is a tint?
300
Colors such as red, yellow, and orange that can 'energize' a piece of art are called
What are warm colors?
300
These colors are the direct result of mixing two primary colors
What are secondary colors?
300
This color is not on the color wheel, but is created by adding white to red
What is pink?
300
This famous artist that helped create expressionism painted the well-known 'Starry, Starry night'
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
400
This art word means 'the brightness or strength of a color.'
What is intensity? (saturation also accepted)
400
These are brown or gray colors created by mixing equal amounts of two complementary colors
What are neutral colors?
400
An image that has no color, and only gray, black, and white is called a ______ scale image
What is a gray scale image?
400
This cool color is said to represent vision, luxury, and authenticity.
What is purple?
400
A famous expressionist artist concerned with matters of human mortality his feelings through works of intense color, semi-abstraction, and mysterious subject matter
Who is Edvard Munch?
500
What was Josef Albers' series of more than 1,000 paintings of colored squares called?
What is Homage to The Square?
500
This famous scientist invented the color wheel?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
You get see this pretty occurence when you shine white light through a prism
What is a rainbow?
500
This color warm color is said to represent optimism, confidence, and self-esteem.
What is yellow?
500
A Czech painter and illustrator who lived most of his life in Paris. He was one of the first artists to paint abstract expressionism.
Who is Frank Kupka?
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