ART OF COLOR - Shane · PDF file- Johannes Itten, from The Art of Color. LIGHT IMPRESSION....

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Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As aflame produces light, light produces color. As intonation

lends color to the spoken word, color lends spirituallyrealized sound to form. Harmony implies balance,

symmetry of forces.

- Johannes Itten, from The Art of Color

LIGHT IMPRESSION

ALTERING COLOR

• HUE• SATURATION• BRILLIANCE• EXTENSION• SIMULTANEOUS

HUE• Gradation of Color• Name and properties

or mixture of a colorthat enables it to beperceived

• White, gray, andblack have no hue

hue / saturation / value

SATURATION

• The level and mixture of white, black, grey orcomplimentary included in color

BRILLIANCE / VALUE

• Lightness or darkness of a color

• Lightened values are tints,darkened values are shades andmedium value colors aredescribed as midtones

BRILLIANCE / VALUE

• HOW LIGHT OR DARK A COLOR IS

COLORS OF EQUAL BRILLIANCE

EXTENSION• PROPORTIONS OF COLOR

• SHIFTING OF COLORS TO COMPLIMENTARY

SIMULTANEOUS

COLOR AGENT AND COLOR EFFECT

COLOR EXPRESSION

12 HUE COLOR CIRCLE

PRIMARY / SECONDARY / TERTIARY

Analogous ColorsColors that are adjacent to each other

on the color wheel.

Seven Color Contrasts

1. Contrast of Hue

2. Light – Dark Contrast

3. Cold – Warm Contrast

4. Complementary Contrast

5. Simultaneous Contrast

6. Contrast of Saturation

7. Contrast of Extension

Contrast of HueAt least three clearly differentiated hues

are necessary

Light – Dark Contrast

Alec Soth

Cold - Warm Contrast

Martin Parr and Gregory Crewdson

COLD - WARM PROPERTIES

•Shadow / Sun•Transparent / Opaque•Sedative / Stimulant•Airy / Earthy•Far / Near•Wet / Dry

Complimentary ContrastComplementary colors are opposite

each other on the Color Wheel.

Christian Patterson / William Eggleston / William Christenberry

SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST

— The appearance of something beingaffected by the appearance of thingssurrounding it

— The simultaneously generatedcomplementary color occurs as asensation in the eye of the beholder, andis not objectively present.

— Refers to the manner in which thecolors of two different objects affect eachother

CONTRAST OF SATURATION

Pure colors may be diluted in four different ways:1. Color diluted with white2. Color diluted with black3. Color diluted with gray4. Color diluted by a mixture of corresponding complementarycolors

CONTRAST OF EXTENSION

Involves the relative size of two or more areas of color. It is the contrastbetween large and small areas.

YELLOW

Martin Parr Dakar (yellow dress), 2001

YELLOW

Tim Davis McDonalds 1, Forsythia from Retail

YELLOW

Andrew Bush

YELLOW

Alec Soth from Sleeping Along the Mississippi

YELLOW

William Eggleston Untitled (Yellow Gas Station Restroom)

YELLOW

Martin Parr from Great Britain

YELLOW

Liz Kuball from California Vernacular

YELLOW

Amir Zaki Untitled (Tower 42)

YELLOW

Andreas Gursky

Pieter Hugo Gabazzini Zuo. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Martin Parr

Richard Misrach from Desert Cantos (Violent Legacies)

Brian Ulrich

Alec Soth from Niagara

Alec Soth

John Pfahl, B-58 Hustler Pd / Galisteo Basin Petroglyphs

David Lachapelle

Alec Soth

Andrew Bush Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, atapproximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997

Martin Parr

Cara Phillips

Martin Parr Essex Girl

JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Tess and Her Pink Things

JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Yealin Ham and Her Pink Things 2005

JeongMee Yoon The Blue Project - Jeonghoon and His Blue Things

Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Michael Light from 100 Suns

Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites

Martina Mullaney from Turn In

Alec Soth

Cara Philips

Cara Philips from Singular Beauty

Olaf Breuning

Brad Moore

Andreas Gursky

William Eggleston

Richard Renaldi from Touching Strangers

William Eggleston

Stephen Shore

Helen Levitt New York City, 1980

Larry Sultan from Pictures from Home

Thomas Demand

Catherine Wagner A Narrative History of the Lightbulb: Green Energy

Martin Parr

Will Steacy from The Price We Pay

ORANGE

Michael Light Sun City, AZ

ORANGE

Liz Kuball

ORANGE

Joel Sternfeld

ORANGE

Michael Light GRABLE, 15 Kilotons, Nevada 1953 from 100 Suns

ORANGE

Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #34

ORANGE

Alec Soth

ORANGE

Martin Parr

ORANGE

Brian Ulrich

VIOLET

Christian Patterson Lamplighter Jukebox, 2005

VIOLET

Tim Davis

VIOLET

Christian Patterson

VIOLET

Andreas Gursky Hong Kong Stock Exchange II

VIOLET

Mitch Epstein Liquidation Sale

VIOLET

Alec Soth

VIOLET

Candida H öfer

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