This document discusses color theory and relationships. It begins by defining primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Primary colors cannot be made from any other colors and include red, yellow, and blue. Secondary colors are made by mixing two primary colors, and tertiary colors mix a primary and secondary. Complementary colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel and have high contrast. The document then discusses color relationships using a color wheel or triangle model and defines hue, tint, shade and tone. It provides examples of complementary colors used by artists like Van Gogh and Monet. Finally, it discusses the Fauves artistic movement in the early 20th century that embraced vibrant color expression over realistic representation.

1. The Colour
"The purest and most thoughtful
minds are those which love color the
most."
— John Ruskin

2. THE COLOUR WHEEL
What type of colours are these?

3. Primary Colours

4. Primary Colours

5. Primary Colours
•Cannot be made from any other colours
•All other colours are made from these
•Equal distance from each other on colour wheel

6. Secondary Colours

7. Secondary Colours

8. Secondary Colours
•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours
•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel

9. Tertiary Colours
Made by mixing equal amounts of adjoining primary and secondary colours.

10. The whole colour wheel

11. Complementary Colours
This colour scheme uses opposite
colours on the colour wheel. These
colours are across from each other on
the wheel and have great contrast.

12. "Complementary colors make a
strange pair. They are opposite, yet
they require each other. They incite
each other to maximum vividness
when together; and annihilate each
other when mixed.“
— Johannes Itten

13. Complementary colours used by
Van Gogh
BLUE + ORANGE

14. Complementary colours used by
Monet
RED + GREEN

15. COLOUR RELATIONSHIPS:
Color relationships may be displayed as a color wheel
or a color triangle.
The Painter's color triangle consists of
colors we would often use in art class—those
colors we learn about as children. The
primary hues are red, blue and yellow.
The Printers' color triangle is
the set of colors used in the
printing process. The primaries
are magenta, cyan, and yellow.
Nine-part harmonic triangle of Goethe begins
with the printer's primaries; the secondaries
formed are the painter's primaries; and the
resulting tertiaries formed are dark neutrals.

16. Describing colours:
hue, tint, shade and tone
Hue as one of the twelve colors on the mixing wheel.
Every individual color on the Basic Colour Wheel can
be altered in three ways by Tinting, Shading or
Toning.

17. Understanding colour terms
Let’s start with Lightening the twelve basic colors to
create Tints. A Tint is sometimes called a Pastel. Basically
it’s simply any color with white added.
A Shade is simply any color with black added.
A Tone is created by adding both White and Black which
is grey. Any color that is “greyed down” is considered a
Tone.

18. The Fauves
With respect to the arts, color was part of the realistic, visual
representation of form, but one group of painters abandoned the
traditional practices regarding color in painting. This group of artists were
influenced by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Led by Henri Matisse, they
were known as the Fauves, or "the wild beasts." Their exuberant use of
brilliant hues seem to disregard imitative color. Whereas other artists had
used color as the description of an object, the Fauves let color become the
subject of their painting. A painting in the "Fauvist Manner" was one that
related color shapes; rather than unifying a design with line, compositions
sought an expressiveness within the relationships of the whole. This turn
from tradition brought an integrity to color in that color was regarded on its
own merit.
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
— Pablo Picasso
Read more about the Fauves at the National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/fauve/index.htm

19. QUOTATIONS BY HENRI MATISSE
“When I put a green, it it not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the
sky.”
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon
me.
“Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no
importance”.
Exactitude is not truth.

20. "Colour is life; for a world
without colours appears to
us as dead."—
Johannes Itten
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