theory
vision
science
schemes
artists and scientists
100
Colors that can not be formed by any combination of other colors
What are primary colors?
100
The difference between white and black creates excessive muscular activity which fatigues the eye
What is color contrast?
100
The color you can't touch, such as a beam of red light and the colors produced by your computer monitor.
What is additive color?
100
Something that is pleasing to the eye.
What is Harmony?
100
Developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666.
What did Isaac Newton do about color theory?
200
A color circle, based on red, yellow and blue, is traditional in the field of art.
What is the color wheel?
200
The color-detecting cell inside an eye.
What is a "cone" in the retina?
200
The smaller wavelength in the color spectrum.
What is ultraviolet light?
200
Any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
200
Van Gogh
What artist use yellow as a main characteristic in all his paintings?
300
Tint
What is color plus white?
300
The inability to distinguish the differences between certain colors.
What is Color-Blindness?
300
All colors mix to yield black
What is subtractive color system?
300
Monochromatic
What is a color blended with it's tones?
300
A style developed in the mid-20th century. It emphasized form and color rather than an actual subject
What is Abstract Expressionism ?
400
Shade
What is color plus black?
400
The eye receives the reflected red light and sends a message to the brain.
How the Eye Sees Color?
400
0.000,000,001 of a metre. Measurement of wavelength
What is a nanometre?
400
Neutrals
What is color harmony uses black, white & gray?
400
Type of painting that shows objects, such as flowers, food, or musical instruments.
What is a still life?
500
colors are made with red, orange, yellow, or some combination of these
What are warm colors?
500
Because humans have three kinds of color receptor cells.
Why we are “trichromats”?
500
System which numerically describes 300 colors.
What is Munsell System?
500
Triad
What are three colors which create a triangle on the color wheel?
500
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who was the first artist that knew intuitively that color came from light?
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