Color theory, color harmonies and definitions, examples of famous and contemporary artworks

1. COLOR THEORY

2. COLOR WHEEL
• THE
MODERN
COLOR
WHEEL
HAS 12
COLORS
• ROY G. BiV
+
TERTIARY

3. COLOR HARMONY
• HARMONY DEFINED: a pleasing
arrangement of parts
• COLOR RELATIONSHIP: the fixed
relationship between colors based on the
color wheel
• COLOR SCHEMES: Complementary,
analogous, triadic, split-complementary,
monochromatic, warm/cool, tetradic
(rectangle), square

4. COMPLEMENTARY
Colors opposite each other on the color
wheel

5. ANALOGOUS
Colors that are next to
each other on the color
wheel

6. TRIADIC
Colors that are
evenly spaced
around the wheel

7. SPLIT-
COMPLEMENTARY
A color and the
two colors
adjacent to it’s
complement

8. MONOCHROMATIC
• Variation in lightness or saturation of a
single color

9. WARM/COOL
The color wheel is divided in two – warm
and cool

10. SQUARE: four colors
spaced evenly around the
color wheel
RECTANGLE (tetradic):
two sets of complementary
colors

11. GEORGE
BASELITZ

12. ALEX
PRAGER

13. JEAN
MICHEL
BASQUIAT

14. MERELLO

15. EDVARD
MUNCH

16. GRANT
WOOD