Mixing with Pigments
A hue with some black mixed in.
What is a shade?
This is the color that most powerfully increases attention levels and arousal, enhancing memory performance.
What is red?
This is the color you get when you mix red, green, and blue light together?
What is white?
This is the country where the Bauhaus was located.
What is Germany?
These are the types of wavelengths that most birds can see but humans cannot.
What are UV rays/light?
How many hues are in the split primary color wheel?
What is 15? 6 primaries (warm & cool), 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary.
These are temporary visual perceptions that occur when the eye and brain's visual system continue to process an image after the stimulus is gone.
What is afterimage?
This file format has fewer number of colors, jpg or gif.
What is a gif? Gifs are limited to 256 colors whereas jpegs support millions of colors.
This is the timeframe that the Bauhaus was active. You may name the decade(s).
What is 1919 – 1933? What is the 1920s?
This is the name for the green color in leaves that the breaks down and disappears in the fall allowing the other colors to show.
What is chlorophyll?
These are the type of colors created when you mix complementary hues.
What are neutrals; brown, gray, or black?
This is the visual effect where the perceived hue, brightness, or saturation of a color is altered by the colors surrounding it.
What is simultaneous contrast?
This is what HSB stands for.
What is hue, saturation, and brightness?
This Bauhaus professor and artist focused on the relativity of color and paid homage to the square in his work. Our paper color studies were based on his teachings.
Who is Josef Albers?
This is the name of the first recorded hybrid between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay.
What is a Grue Jay?
This is the word and meaning behind the K in a CMYK mix.
What is key, the key plate in the printing process?
These are the photoreceptor cells in the eye's retina that are responsible for color vision.
What are cones?
This is the color defined by hex value #000000.
What is black?
A core tenet/mantra of the Bauhaus: an object's design should be dictated by its purpose rather than unnecessary ornamentation.
What is form follows function?
This color does not have its own wavelength and is only seen because it is an extra-spectral color that the brain perceives when it detects both red and blue light without any green light.
What is magenta?
The process of creating colors by absorbing or "subtracting" some wavelengths of light while reflecting others, typically using pigments or dyes.
What is subtractive?
This is the chromosome that carries the gene for color blindness, causing men to have the deficiency much more often than women.
What is the X chromosome? 1 in 12 men are affected. 1 in 200 women. Mothers can be carriers and pass to their sons.
This is the term for the special layer in Photoshop that our class used in the mockup files to apply effects and perspective to embedded art.
What is a smart object?
This is the name of one other prominent artists from the Bauhaus.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Johannes Itten, Anni Albers...
This is a natural optical phenomenon where different colors of light focus at different distances, causing a slight blur or color fringing.
What is chromatic aberration?