wut Flashcards
(23 cards)
Additive vs. subtractive color?
Additive is colors made by lights. When mixed, become lighter in value. Subtractive- Colors made by pigments. When mixed, become darker in value.
Meaning of analogous
Neighboring 3 colors
What’s the material in paint that serves to create the actual color?
Pigment
Who invented color star?
Johannes Itten
Meaning of contrast
Difference in value
With contrast of extension, what degree of color contrast can one get?
A metric fuckton, like Y and P, B and O, etc
What is the relative purity of a color?
Saturation, or Intensity.
What is the expressive nature of a color?
Color Symbolism.
Isaac Newton used a prism to discover…
The visible spectrum.
Meaning of tetradic
Creates a rectangle or square
What are the three attributes of color?
Hue, value, saturation.
Meaning of neutral
Fall into earth tone, muted, made from complements
Afterimage?
The illusion of color and shape after staring at at a color or shape for a long time. It can appear as complementary or in the negative.
Meaning of tone
color and gray
The seven contrasts?
Value, Contrast of Hue, Contrast of Complements, Cold/Warm, Saturation, Extension, Simultaneous
Meaning of shade
Color and black
Meaning of complementary
Opposite colors
What are the two design principles that govern the use of the formal elements and that are primary in the artist’s decision making process?
Unity and Variety.
Meaning of triadic
Creates a triangle, equal and isosceles.
Meaning of color discord
Lack harmony
What is used in art to imply depth and mass, and is created by a range of values?
Gradation.
What does monochromatic mean?
One color with B and W.
Meaning of tint
Color and white
