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COLOR

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Color

Definition

The visual response to the wavelengths ofsunlight identified as red, green, blue, etc.

Having the physical properties of hue,

intensity and value .

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Hue

Designates the common name of acolor and indicates its position on the

color wheel or on the spectrum. Hue isdetermined by the specific wavelengthof the color in a ray of light.

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Color Wheel

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Value

The characteristic of color determined bylight or dark or the quantity of lightreflected by the color.

The relative degree of light and dark.

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Primary Colors

Primary colors are sets of colors that canbe combined to make a useful range(gamut) of colors. RED, BLUE, YELLOW

Secondary colors

Intermediate colors

Complementary colors Analogous colors

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Colour

All colours in the chart can either berelatively warm or cool

BLUE in varying degrees = COOLER

YELLOW /RED in varying degrees =WARMER

WARM colours can appear to be strongerthan COOL ones

e.g. yellow-orange against blue backdrop

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Colour

Can give spatial quality in a pictorial field

A 3 dimensional quality is resulted placedon a flat surface (e.g. a spot of yellow-orange)

COUNTERBALANCE = forward orbackward movement

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Colour

Can create a mood & symbolize ideas andexpress personal emotions

Light, bright colours =happy

Cool, sombre = sad

Hues can have varying emotional impacts

Hues can symbolize ideas or abstractqualities like virtue, loyalty, evil andcowardice

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RED

Power

Anger

Love Intense

Exciting

Danger Passion

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Colours

Yellow cowardice

Black death

White purity or innocence Purple wealth or royalty

Green life and hope

Pink feminine Gray masculine

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Colour

In art forms colour & their arrangementscan give meaning or a feeling tone

ARCHITECTURE = design takes colourinto consideration for expressive andfunctional aspects; esp. in interior design

SCULPTURE = colour is linked to materialchosen; can enhance depth of shallowareas, dramatize sections; purelydecorative

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