Transcript Colors (definition and classification)

Colors
(analysis)
Natural light spectrum, a continuum
Color wheel
3 primary, 3 secondary, 6 tertiary
Color star
Color sphere
Colors
(production)
Additive color mixing (slide, projection, etc.)
Subtractive color mixing
(pigment, paint, print, etc.)
Colors
(production in printing)
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The Pantone® system
Printing colors
Positive / RGB system
Negative / CMY system
The 4-color process
Mire de calage des couleurs dans l’imprimerie
Printing colors
Addition of CMJK (k=black) dots produce a color picture in a 4-color process
Photography
(autochrome process)
Georges Seurat, Le Pont de Courbevoie, 1886-87, Institut Courtauld
Oil (traditional)
Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Professor Nicolaes Tulp, 1632 (The Hague)
Oil (Alla Prima)
Claude Monet, Impression au soleil levant, 1872 (musée Marmottan)
Tempera
Grant Wood, Fall Plowing(1931)
Watercolor
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Florence: Fountain, Boboli Gardens
about 1906–07
John Singer Sargent, Torre Galli, Wine Bag,1910
Color effects
You may visit and study : http://webexhibits.org/colorart/contrast.html
Use of color in painting
El Greco, Vue de Tolède, 1600
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Georges de la Tour,
La Madeleine repentante, 1640-1645
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georges de la Tour, L’adoration des bergers,1644
Musée du Louvre
Use of color in painting
Yves Klein, Nu couché bleu, 1955
Collection particulière
Hans Hofmann, Equinox, 1958
(push pull effect)
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929
Nicolas de Stael, Parc des Princes (Les Grands Footballeurs), 1952
Collection particulière
Victor Vasarely, Vonal Stri, 1975
J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844
Sites
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Color theory (wikipedia)
Couleur complémentaire
Color site (nuances, vocabulary, etc.)
Color site 2
Victoria & Albert Museum on oil painting technique
Victoria & Albert Museum on watercolor technique
Color symbolism
Color tutorial