COLORS , COlORS , COLORs Light & COLORS

COLORS, COlORS, COLORs Light & COLORS By DaylynWeppner Julie Brown and Caitlin Friess

Introduction: • Color and Lightare interconnected • Color is made of wavelengths of Light • If there is no light, there is no color • Color can elude definition; it is tough to pin down • The definition of color is based on how it is felt • Color informs, influences, attracts, and compels through countless visual and emotional channels (PII) • It is a basic human instinct to notice color (PII)

Hue a colors Hue attributes to these artistic functions Common name we use to identify colors (Yellow, Blue, Red etc.) Helps us to place what we experience visually Helps to distinguish object • Identifying an object or subject • Organizing a composition • Creating the illusion of space • Symbolizing learned, cultural conventions and associations • Creating mood • Reflecting and emotion

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wavelength Discovered By sir Isaac Newton: All color lights create white light • Every color has its own wavelength • We see each color differently through the various sizes of Wavelengths • The shortest wavelengths are bent the most and the longest are bent to the least

Pigment • Primary colors – • Red,Yellow, Blue • All colors derive from primary colors • Secondary colors are created when two primary colors are mixed-orange, green, violet • Tertiary colors are created by mixing a primary color with a secondary color next to it yellowgreen, blue-violet, etc. • A colors pigment can soothe irritate, and calm a person (PII)

Analogous Color Colors found close to each other on the color wheel- create a peaceful affect due to the fact that they complement each other

Complementary color: colors that are found on the opposing side of color wheel from each other create an antagonistic and disruptive nature

Colors • Warm and Cool Colors • Warm- Yellow, Orange and Red • Cool-Blue, Green and Violet • Complimentary Colors involve one warm and one cool color

Value • The lightness or Darkness of a Color • Light=High • Dark=Low

Value: the lightness or Darkness of a color Navaho Weavers Prior to the 1850s natural wool colors (white, brown) were used to weave Blankets would be divided into different values of brown (light to dark) Repetition of patterns and colors to emphasize the values • Light colors: Higher Scale- tints • Dark colors: Lower Scale- shades

Intensity: the relative brightness or dullness of a color • Aka: “Chroma” or “Saturation” • Edward Hopperand Stuart Davis • The intensity of any color is the most ducked when it is mixed with its color compliment

MarthRothka: “Abstract Expressionist” Color & Contrast to Evoke Mood

Light: color does not exist physically separate from light • *Chiaroscuro: • Modeling a form through gradual tonal modulations

Forms Become Light The end of the 19th Century Joseph MallorD • The idea of reversing the practice of manipulating light to emphasize the three-dimensional impression of volumes in illusionistic or actual space

Marc Chagall. Issachar Window • Point to several examples of varying degrees of color value and color intensity? • What effect does he use of analogous color have on your emotional response to this image?

COLORS , COlORS , COLORs Light & COLORS