Colors (analysis)

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Colors(analysis)
Natural light spectrum, a continuum
Color wheel 3 primary, 3 secondary, 6 tertiary
Color star
Color sphere
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Colors(production)
Additive color mixing (slide, projection, etc.)
Subtractive color mixing (pigment, paint, print,
etc.)
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Colors(production in printing)
The Pantone system
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Printing colors
Positive / RGB system
Negative / CMY system
The 4-color process
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Mire de calage des couleurs dans limprimerie
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Printing colors
Addition of CMJK (kblack) dots produce a color
picture in a 4-color process
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Photography(autochrome process)
Georges Seurat, Le Pont de Courbevoie, 1886-87,
Institut Courtauld
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Oil (traditional)
Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Professor Nicolaes
Tulp, 1632 (The Hague)
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Oil (Alla Prima)
Claude Monet, Impression au soleil levant, 1872
(musée Marmottan)
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Tempera
Grant Wood, Fall Plowing(1931)
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Watercolor
John Singer Sargent (18561925), Florence
Fountain, Boboli Gardens about 190607
John Singer Sargent, Torre Galli, Wine Bag,1910
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Color effects
You may visit and study http//webexhibits.org/c
olorart/contrast.html
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Use of color in painting
El Greco, Vue de Tolède, 1600 New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Georges de la Tour, La Madeleine repentante,
1640-1645 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georges de la Tour, Ladoration des bergers,1644
Musée du Louvre
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Use of color in painting
Yves Klein, Nu couché bleu, 1955 Collection
particulière
Hans Hofmann, Equinox, 1958 (push pull effect)
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929
Victor Vasarely, Vonal Stri, 1975
Nicolas de Stael, Parc des Princes (Les Grands
Footballeurs), 1952 Collection particulière
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J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great
Western Railway, 1844
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Sites

• Color theory (wikipedia)
• Couleur complémentaire
• Color site (nuances, vocabulary, etc.)
• Color site 2
• Victoria Albert Museum on oil painting
  technique
• Victoria Albert Museum on watercolor technique
• Color symbolism
• Color tutorial