Color Review

1. Color Review Color Quiz TOMORROW!

2. Principles of Design – Concepts that govern how artists organize the Elements of Art THE PRINCIPLES OF ART/DESIGN Harmony Variety Economy Movement Proportion Balance Emphasis

3. Variety in art refers to the use of contrasting or different types of Elements in a work of art. Using Variety adds interest.

4. Variety creates… • Contrast – extreme or pronounced variation

6. Color – the visual response to the wavelengths of sunlight identified as hues

7. Hue • Hue designates the common name of a color and indicates its position on the spectrum or on the color wheel.

8. Primary Colors • Red, blue, and yellow comprise the three primary colors. • The preliminary hues that cannot be broken down or reduced. These are the hues from which all other colors on the spectrum can be made.

9. Secondary Colors • Orange, violet, and green are the secondary colors. – • a color produced by mixing two primary colors.

10. Primary & Secondary Colors

11. Intermediate Colors – colors resulting from mixing a primary and a secondary color. (Red-orange, red-violet, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet) Notice the primary color is always listed first… red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet

12. Warm Colors • Warm, or advancing colors, are those that resemble fire and heat. Red, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange are examples of warm colors. • Warm colors appear closer and are more eye catching than cool colors.

13. Cool Colors • Cool, or receding colors, are associated with peace and calm. Blue, blue-green, and blue-violets represent cool colors. • Cool colors in a composition tend to visually recede and look smaller. They are not easily seen from a distance.

14. Intensity – the saturation or purity of a hue. A vivid color is high intensity and a dull color is low intensity.

15. Local Color – the color as seen in the objective world (green grass, blue sky, red barn) Local Color Not Local Color

16. Complementary • Complementary color: two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel. A primary color is complementary to a secondary color. (Red and Green, Blue and Orange, Violet and Yellow)

17. COLOR Wheel

18. Value Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue achieved by adding white, gray, or black. • Tint - adding white to a hue • Shade – adding black to a hue Tint

19. Split Complementary • A color and two colors on either side of its complement.

20. Monochromatic • Monochromatic: colors having only one hue; The complete range of color from white to black.

21. Analogous: Colors that neighbors on the color wheel

22. Color is one of the most expressive elements in art because its quality affects our emotions directly. When we view a work of art we do not have to rationalize what we are supposed to feel about its color; we have an immediate, emotional reaction to it.

23. Color begins with and is derived from light. • Where there is light there is some color. • Where there is no light there is no color.

24. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (1881 – 1973) • born in Malaga, Spain Home where he was born

25. ABSTRACTION • “The process or result of generalization by reducing simplifying the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon “ - - Wikipedia IN ART – Abstraction Means To: • Simplify, reduce and/or rearrange imagery in a composition

26. Realistic to Abstract

27. best known for co-founding the Cubistmovement (with Georges Braque) • Cubism: • objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form • the artist depictsthe subject from multiple viewpoints

28. went through a “Blue Period” in his art after the death of a friend The Old Guitarist 1903, oil on Panel And Femme aux bras Croises 1902

29. Blue Period” was followed by a “Rose Period” as he was coming out of his depression Boy with a Pipe, 1905

30. Les Demoiselle d’ Avignon • Oil on Canvas; completed in 1907 • Cubist style • Influenced by African Masks • Controversial – originally rejected by the art world

31. Guernica – painted for the World’s Fair - 1937 • depicts the bombing of Guernica, Spain by Germans during the Spanish Civil War