Understanding Color

Color is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects emits or light.  Triad is a group of three connected people or things.  Chairoscuro is the the treatment of light and shade in a drawing and painting.  Secondary colors are a color of resulting from the mixing of two primary colors green, orange, pink.  Tertiary colors are colors made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color, in a given color space such as RGB or RYB.  Hue is a color or shade: “her face lost its golden hue”.  Intermediates is an act of mediating.  Monochromatic is containing or using only one color.  Value is the relative lightness or darkness of a picture.  Color intensity is the overall shading of the colors.  a complimentary color is either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments).  Warm colors are (Warm color) In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color.  Soft colors are colors that don’t reflect light as well as warm colors.

 

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Vincent Van Goh’s painting of the Starry Night uses colors in a blended form.  This painting is used with many brush strokes.  It incorporates mainly the primary colors blue, yellow, and black.  Also this painting is unique in the sense that most of the brush strokes are in curved lines.  These strokes are used to combine the colors used in his painting in a way where they combine to create new colors and darken others.