aspects or properties of color
The name or kind of color. The property of light by which the color of an object is classified in reference to the spectrum.
What is Hue?
An American color theorist whose system of categorizing color is still used widely in industry and design. The precision of his notation system allowed color reproduction to become standardized.
Who is Albert Munsell?
A chemist who contributed to the field of color theory.
Michel Chevreul
Red, Yellow and Blue.
What are the primary colors in subtractive (paint) mixing?
The narrator of the BBC series
Who is Dr. Jaime Fox?
The degree of light or dark in a color; tints and shades.
What is Value?
The author of the first known book on color theory.
Who is Aristotle?
A physicist who contributed to the field of color theory.
Who is JC Maxwell or Sir Issac Newton?
Red, Green and Blue
What are the three primaries in additive (light) mixing?
A system of coating or plating objects with gold. Sometimes called "fool's gold."
What is electroplating?
The purity, strength or depth of a color, especially relative to its freedom from any admixture with other hues.
What is saturation, intensity or chroma?
He created the first color wheel.
Who is Issac Newton?
He concluded that color was not a property of the perceived object, but occurs in the eye of the beholder.
Who was the Greek philosopher Empedocles? Plato also believed this.
He wrote that colors operated on a linear scale, with black and white on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Who was Aristotle?
Who used 8 types of gold leaf and many types if gold paint to make his painting 'The Kiss' during "The Gilded Age"?
Who is Gustav Klimt?
The warmth or coolness in a color.
What is temperature?
A German poet and thinker who published lots of ideas and theories on color, including a color wheel and a color triangle that attempted to reveal color relationships.
Who is Goethe?
An Italian artist who developed systems and techniques about "sfumato" and "atmospheric perspective" that painters still use today.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Yellow- Violet
Blue- Orange
Red-Green
What are complementary (opposite) colors?
The "gold center" of Reanissance Italy.
What is the Ponte Vecchio?
Name the three most prominent categories by which we define color.
Hue, Value, Saturation or Intensity
He was a teacher at the Bauhaus who later taught in the US, developed a system of teaching color and wrote a book with his students called 'Interaction of Color'? He is widely considered the "father" of modern color theory.
Who is Josef Albers?
A German painter who created the first 3D color wheel or "color sphere."
Who was Philip Otto Runge?
Groups of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Example: Red, Red-orange and Orange.
What are analogous colors?
Gold was used by the Egyptians to represent the sun and immortality, by early Christians to represent the divine light of God and the heavens, in the Renaissance to represent worldly power and wealth and by 20th c. artists to represent romantic love.
What does each culture hold sacred?