Color Theory and Composition

by Lauren Champlin

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Color is a language with the unique ability to communicate both meanings and direct sensations. Picture a row of flags: color information of striped bands is used to distinguish country affiliation. Now, on the other hand, imagine standing in front of a Rothko painting: entering fields of red and orange raises your heart rate slightly, makes you feel warm, excited, complex emotions. We are immersed in the language of color. From rainbows to stop signs to paint, color can function as code, sensa

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Rio Hondo College
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Humanities
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Introduction
  7. 1.1: Color Systems
  8. 1.2: Painting - Color Wheel
  9. 2: Hue
  10. 2.1: Understanding Hue
  11. 2.2: Collage - Polychrome
  12. 2.3: Matisse Video
  13. 2.4: Organizing Art Elements
  14. 3: Value
  15. 3.1: Understanding Value
  16. 3.2: Painting - Create a Greyscale Tool
  17. 3.3: Collages - Value Pattern
  18. 4: Temperature
  19. 4.1: Understanding Temperature
  20. 4.2: Introduction to Impressionism
  21. 4.3: Collages - Shifting Light
  22. 5: Complementary Contrast
  23. 5.1: Understanding Complementary Contrast
  24. 5.2: Project 5- Complementary Collages
  25. 6: Saturation
  26. 6.1: Understanding Saturation
  27. 6.2: Collage - Saturation as Light, Space, and Sound
  28. 6.3: Painting - Saturation Grid
  29. 7: Color Perception
  30. 7.1: Understanding Color Perception
  31. 7.2: Understanding Simultaneous Contrast
  32. 7.3: Josef Albers, Homage to the Square
  33. 8: Color Symbolism
  34. 8.1: Understanding Color Symbolism
  35. 8.2: Abstract art and Theosophy
  36. 8.3: Australia
  37. 9: Extension and Composition
  38. 9.1: Understanding Extension
  39. 9.2: Hannah Höch,Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany (essay)
  40. Back Matter
  41. Index
  42. Glossary
  43. Detailed Licensing