Art Theory 101 - Color
Color is a powerful element along with the other elements. It has very extensive features and impressive qualities. It is very important to know the effective composition involved in the design and fine arts. Color is the well known term that is applicable to the entire subject—-red, yellow, orange, green, violet, blue, white and black and all the other combinations present.
Hue is the correct word to apply to refer to just the pure spectrum colors. Any given color can be expressed in terms of its value and hue. In addition, the various physical phenomena and psychological effects combine to affect our perceptions of a color.
‘Value’ is the term used to describe the darkness or lightness of a color. It indeed is a vital for an artist or a designer in the way it designs the spatial illusions. The contrast of a value isolates the objects in the space, while the value gradation suggests contour and mass of the contiguous surface.
Hue is term generally referred for yellow, orange, red, violet, green, blue those appear in hue circle collectively called as pure spectrum colors. In theory, all the other hues can be formed from the primary hues. When the primaries are all mixed collectively, the resultant color would be black. Hence this pigment mixture is sometimes called as the subtractive mixture.
These basic colors involve three hues that can be theoretically mixed with the other hues. Yellow, blue and red constitute Painter primaries, yellow, cyan and magenta constitute Printer Primaries; and green, blue and red constitute Light primaries.
Complements are colors that are contrary one another on the hue circle. When complements are mixed with one another in paint, the resulting muted tones desaturate or dull the hues. Such opposite pairs can also be judged in terms of their relative warmth and coolness. Warm-cool contrast of hue can cause images to appear to advance or recede. In a 15th century painting, for example, the warm reds of the man’s doublet and his son’s cap reinforce the cues of placement to make these figures seem very close. On the other hand, the cool tones of the sea and sky suggest great distance.
Few color effects happen only in the eye as well as on the brain of a percipient and not by the properties of the light waves and pigments. However, these illusions appear dominant and show a big impact on our responses to a color.
When tiny particles of various colors are mixed, optical mixture occurs; this kind of combination differs from the pigment mixture based on the light primaries. Optical mixture, however, vary from a light mixture where the primaries will combine to white, and from the pigment combination the primaries combine to black.
Optical mixture is experienced when examining many textiles. It can also be perceived in natural objects, color television, and printed color pictures.
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