Studio Art - Chapter 4

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Color

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The effect on our eyes of different wavelengths or frequencies of an electromagnetic spectrum that is infinite and continuous. Color consists of hue, intensity, and value.

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Color Spectrum

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The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

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Spectral Colors

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Colors that become visible when white light passes through a prism: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

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Subtractive Color Process

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The mixing of pigments and dyes so that all colors of light except the desired color are absorbed (subtracted).

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Primary Colors

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In a color system, the basic colors that cannot be broken down into other colors and that can be combines to create other colors.

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Secondary Colors

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The colors created from mixing two primary colors.

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Additive Color Process

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The mixing of colored lights so that when some colored lights shine on a surface, they combine (add) to make other colors.

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Optical Color Mixing

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Placement of different colors in such a way that the human eye mixes them to form new colors.

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Color Wheel

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A circular arrangement of the colors of the visible spectrum.

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Hue

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A name of a color family or an area on the color spectrum.

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Value (of Color)

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The degree of lightness or darkness in a color.

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Value Scale

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A series of progressively changing values from light to dark or dark to light.

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Key

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Used synonymously with value. In a scale of values, high-key colors are lighter than colors in the middle of the scale; low-key colors are darker than colors in the middle of the scale.

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Intensity, Saturation, Chroma

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The strength or weakness of a color.

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Tint

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A color that has white added to it.

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Shade

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A color that has black added to it.

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Tone

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A color that has gray added to it.

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Neutrals

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Blacks, whites, grays made from mixing black and white. In some media, earth tones are also considered to be neutrals.

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Pigments

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Ground-up color materials, such as powdered minerals, that are suspended in a medium such as oil or acrylic to make paint.

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Dye

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An intensely colored compound that dissolves in a medium (usually water) and is absorbed by the material it touches.

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Opaque

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Impenetrable to light; preventing underlying images and colors from showing through, or the illusion of this phenomenon.

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Transparent

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Able to transmit light and underlying colors and images, or the illusion of this phenomenon.

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Tertiary Colors, Intermediates

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The products of mixing a primary and a secondary color.

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Monochromatic Color Scheme

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Variations in color based on one color.

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Analogous Color Scheme

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Variations in color based on colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel.

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Complementary Color Scheme

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Variations in color based on colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

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Triad

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Three colors that are equidistant from one another (form an equilateral triangle) on the color wheel.

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Tetrad

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Four colors that are equidistant from one another (form a square or rectangle) on the color whell.

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Hexad

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Six colors obtained by choosing every other color on the color wheel.

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Chromatic Gray

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A neutral gray produced by mixing complementary colors in order to change intensity and value.

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Polychromatic

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Many different colors in one composition.

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Simultaneous Contrast

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An effect achieved by placing highly contrasting colors, values, and intensities next to each other; the contrast between colors increases when they are placed next to each other.

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Afterimage

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An image that appears after looking away from a strong stimulus, such as seeing a halo after looking at a bright light.

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Local Color

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The color that an object reflects in the real world.

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Arbitrary Color

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A color chosen for expressive qualities other than representational qualities that correspond to the world.

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Symbolic Color

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Color that invokes cultural meanings, which can vary with time and place.