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What is color? |
Property possessed by an object producing different sensations of the eye, resulting in reflection or emit of light. |
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Hue: |
Name of color |
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Value: |
Levels of light and dark in a color from white to black. |
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Saturation: |
intensity/purity of a color |
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Color + White = |
Tint |
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Color + gray = |
Tone |
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Color + black = |
Shade |
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Primary colors: |
Cannot be mixed to form; in a pure state |
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Subtractive primary colors: |
Magenta, yellow, cyan |
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Cyan + yellow = |
Green |
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magenta + yellow = |
red |
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magenta + cyan = |
Blue |
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Additive color is created by mixing ______ |
light |
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Color not in the color spectrum: |
Magenta |
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Additive primary colors: |
Red, green, blue |
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blue + green = |
cyan |
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red + green = |
yellow |
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red + blue = |
magenta |
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After image: |
ghostly image that continues to linger after image is gone |
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Basis of why color is symbolic: |
Culture |
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Optical mixing: |
seeing colors mixed by their proximity to each other without them actually being mixed |
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Abstraction: |
moving away from realistic, but still representational |
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Color field paintings: |
a style of American abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s that features large expanses of color covering the greater part of the canvas. Example: Rothko |
