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24 Cards in this Set
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As stated in the textbook, seeing color is a direct function of...
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Light
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What english scientist did experiments with prisms and invented the color wheel?
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Sir Isaac Newton
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The italian word for light and dark
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Chiaroscuro
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When light passes through a prism, the light is broken into bands of color called the...
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Color Spectrum
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What percent of yellow is used to make orange
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50 percent
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What other color is needed?
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Red
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Colors that lie adjacent to or next to each other on the color wheel are called?
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Analogous
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Colors opposite eachother on the color wheel are called?
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Complementary colors
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The range from dark to light is called?
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value scale
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Adding white to a color results in a?
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Tint
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Adding black to a color results in a?
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Shade
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What does monochromatic mean?
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Use of 1 color
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What does polychromatic mean?
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Use of many colors
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Seucrat placed yellow dots next to blue dots with the intent that the viewers eye would blend the colors to form green. The technique is called?
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Optical Mixing
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What us pointillism?
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Using tiny dots of color to make a picture
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If you stare intensely at a primary color for 30 seconds then shift your vision to a field of pure white, you will see its opposite color. This is called?
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Simultaneous contrast
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This term refers to a "spotlight effect" creating intense lights and darks and comes from the italian word of murky
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Tenebrism
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Opposite of red?
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green
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Opposite of yellow?
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Violet
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Opposite of blue?
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Orange
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What artist struggled for 4 years painting the ceiling of the sistine chapel?
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Michangelo
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What is the term for the method of mural painting in which the paint is allowed to go into wet plaster, so that it becomes one with the wall?
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Fresco verra
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What is the term for the process of mural painting in which the paint is done on dry plaster?
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Fresco a serco
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What is the term for the life sized drawings that are traced on to a wall in preparation for a mural painting?
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Cartoon
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