Light and Color

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Light and Color
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Chiaroscuro

• gradual transitions of key or color, produces
  modeling

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Chiaroscuro

• one hue blends into another

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Laura Kislowski, 2006, graphite
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atmospheric perspective objects appear
blue/gray at great distances

• Image by Michael Whelan

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Downtown from U of H
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Hues have their own language or vocabulary.
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2 primaries make a secondary
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Primary Secondary Intermediate (or Tertiary)
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Intermediate (Blue-Green)
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Optical Mixture (Analogous)What color is this?
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Optical Mixture (Analogous)What color is this?
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Optical Mixture (Analogous)What color is this?
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Optical Mixture (Complementary)What color is
this?
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Optical Mixture (Split-complements)What color is
this?
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Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886
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key lightness or darkness of a color or picture
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Key Scale
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Simultaneous Contrast Complementary colors
appear brighter when placed next to each other.
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• Check out Josef Albers color research!

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Neutralsare not colors.
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Warm Colors Cool Colors
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local color the actual hue as seen with the eye
or with a camera (for instance blue sky, green
grass, brown tree trunk, etc.)arbitrary color
no realistic relation to the object (for
instance brown sky, red grass, and purple tree
trunk)
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Pierre Bonnard, The Terrace at Vernon, 1920-1939
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Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke,
Northampton, Massachusetts, after a
ThunderstormThe Oxbow, 1836
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Polychromatic Color Scheme
Charles Searles, Filas for Sale, 1972

• Charles Searles, Filàs skullcap hats for Sale,
  1972

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Cultural Conventions of Color
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Pink is for ?What color is for boys?
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lavender
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The End