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The Art of Color
Color harmony | Developing a visual relationship and structure between colors that are capable of serving as a basis for composition and revealing content.
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Color Impression
Colored light reflected from colored objects modifies the colors of other objects.
Full Light Medium Light Shadow
William Eggleston Joel Sternfeld Paul Graham
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Hue name and properties/mixture of a color that enables it to be perceived.Brilliance how light or dark a color is.Saturation the level and mixture of white, black, grey or complimentary included in color.Extension proportions of colorSimultaneous shifting of colors to their complementary
Color Altered or Varied in 5 Modes
Paintings by Mark Rothko
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Color Agent is the physically or definable colorant.
Color Effect is the psychophysiological color reality.
On a white background,
the yellow square looks darker
and warmer.
On a black background,
the yellow square acquires
extreme brilliance and is cooler.
On white, the red square looks
darker .
On a white background,
the blue square looks darker
and suggests depth.
On black, the red square radiates
warmth.
On a black background,
the blue square acquires
extreme brilliance with deepluminescence of hue.
Color Agent and Color Effect
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Color Expression
Color is not only experienced and understood visually, but also psychologically and emotionally
Gregory Crewdson Philip Lorca diCorcia
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12 Hue Color Circle
Yellow
RedBlue
Orange
Violet
Green
Yellow
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Green
Red
Orange
Red
Violet
Blue
Violet
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Yellow
Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and
generates muscle energy.
Shades of yellow (when gray is added) are visually unappealing because they lose cheerfulness and become dingy.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy.
Philip Lorca diCorcia
William Eggleston
Nan Goldin
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Red
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.
Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.
Philip Lorca diCorcia
William Eggleston William Eggleston
Stephen Shore
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Blue
Passive from the point of view of material space. Always cool and shadowy. Atmospheric.
Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
When dimmed, blue suggests fear, grief, and perdition.
Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
Richard Misrach
Stephen Shore
Alec Soth
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Green
Intermediate between yellow and blue. Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.
If the green inclines towards yellow, an energetic sense of nature is felt. Activated by orange, it assumes vulgar cast. If it inclines towards blue, cold and vigorous aggressiveness.
Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, jealousy and is also commonly associated with money.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
Stephen Shore
William Eggleston
Cindy Sherman
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Orange
Mixture of yellow and red. Maximum radiant activity and solar luminosity. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity,
determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.
Suggests a range from festive to when whitened, a loss of character. When diluted with black, declines into dull and withered brown. By lightening the brown, beige tones achieved suggestingwarmth and quiet atmospheric quality.
Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust.
Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
Edward Burtynsky
Joel Sternfeld
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Violet
Violet combines the stability of blue and the energy of red and is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance.
Violet is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic as well as chaos, death and exaltation.
Solitude and dedication in blue-violet. Divine love and spirituality in red-violet.
Light violet evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Dark violet evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.
Christian Patterson
Tim Davis
Mitch Epstein
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Seven Color Contrasts
1. Contrast of Hue
2. Light - Dark Contrast
3. Cold - Warm Contrast
4 . Complementary Contrast
5 . S imul taneous Contrast
6 . Contrast o f Saturat ion
7. Cont rast of Extension
William Eggleston Henry Wessel
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Contrast of Hue
At least three (3) clearly differentiated hues are necessary.
Some obvious combinations include:
red yellow blue
red blue green
blue yellow violet
green red violet
blue green orange
orange yellow red
William Eggleston
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Light - Dark Contrast
Strongest expressions of light and dark are the colors white and black.
The effects of of black and white are in all respects opposite, with the realm of of grays and chromatic colors between them.
Difference between level of brilliance and illumination. Obscured v. Revealed.
Yellow and Violet have the strongest light - dark contrast.
Alec Soth
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Cold - Warm Contrast
Contrast that is both physical and psychological.
Red - orange represents is at the warmest range of colors, while blue - green is at the coolest.
Cold - Warm properties can be described as: shadow / sun ; transparent / opaque ; sedative / stimulant ; airy / earthy ; far / near ; wet / dry.
Yellow
RedBlue
Orange
Violet
Green
YellowOrange
YellowGreen
BlueGreen
RedOrange
RedViolet
BlueViolet
Cold Colors Warm Colors
Martin Parr
Gregory Crewdson
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Complementary Contrast
Two colors are called complementary when mixed together they produce a neutral gray. Complementary colors are opposite each other on the Color Wheel.
Analogous colors are any three colors which are side by side on a 12 Hue Color Wheel.
Some examples of complementary colors include:
Yellow | Violet Orange | Blue Red | Green
Christian Patterson William Eggleston William Christenberry
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Simultaneous Contrast
Results from the fact that for any given color, the eye simultaneously requires the complementary color, and generates it spontaneously if it is not already present.
The simultaneously generated complementary color occurs as a sensation in the eye of the beholder, and is not objectively present.
It cannot be photographed.
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Contrast of Saturation
Relates to the degree of purity of a color.
Contrast between pure, intense colors and dull, diluted colors.
Pure colors may be diluted in four different ways:
1. Color diluted with white 2. Color diluted with black 3. Color diluted with gray 4. Color diluted by a mixture of corresponding complementary colors
Stephen Shore Stephen Shore
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Contrast of Extension
Involves the relative size of two or more areas of color. It is the contrast between large and small areas.
Colors may be assembled in areas of any size, but the proportion between two or more colors may be said to be in balance or harmony so that no one of the colors is used
more prominently than the other.
Christian Patterson William ChristenberryMartin Parr