Colors(analysis)

Color star

Color sphere

Color wheel3 primary, 3 secondary, 6 tertiary

Natural light spectrum, a continuum

Colors(production)

Additive color mixing (slide, projection, etc.) Subtractive color mixing (pigment, paint, print, etc.)

Colors(production in printing)

The Pantone® system

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Printing colors

The 4-color process

Positive / RGB system Negative / CMY system

Printing colors

Addition of CMJK (k=black) dots produce a color picture in a 4-color process

Photography(autochrome process)

Georges Seurat, Le Pont de Courbevoie, 1886-87, Institut Courtauld

Oil (traditional)

Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Professor Nicolaes Tulp, 1632 (The Hague)

Oil (Alla Prima)

Claude Monet, Impression au soleil levant, 1872 (musée Marmottan)

Tempera

Grant Wood, Fall Plowing(1931)

Watercolor

John Singer Sargent, Torre Galli, Wine Bag,1910

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Florence: Fountain, Boboli Gardensabout 1906–07

Color effects

You may visit and study : http://webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html

Use of color in painting

Georges de la Tour,La Madeleine repentante, 1640-1645 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

El Greco, Vue de Tolède, 1600New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georges de la Tour, L’adoration des bergers,1644 Musée du Louvre

Use of color in painting

Victor Vasarely, Vonal Stri, 1975

Yves Klein, Nu couché bleu, 1955Collection particulière

Nicolas de Stael, Parc des Princes (Les Grands Footballeurs), 1952Collection particulière

Hans Hofmann, Equinox, 1958(push pull effect) Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929

J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844

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