Matakuliah : U0094/Color Theory
Tahun
: 2008
Color Image, Light & Dark
Pertemuan 7 s.d 8
Contrast Light & Dark
Light = White | Dark = Black
Pure white & pure black produce the
greatest clarity, sharp contrast.
Produce the effect of precision,
firmness, objectivity, & alertness
Contrast in value can be used to
create emphasis.
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Contrast Light & Dark
contrast of value
high contrast >> using combination of dark
background colors & primary color for object.
middle contrast >> using combination of the
middle
value gray | tone colors for object &
background
colors.
low contrast >> using combination of tints for
background & object colors.
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Contrast Light & Dark
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Contrast Light & Dark
contrast & toning
When black & white alone appear on a surface,
mixing may take over.
optical
When a composition is worked on a mid-value surface, as
opposed to a very dark or very light surface, it is called
TONING.
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Contrast Light & Dark
complimentary contrast
complementary colors:
Yellow-Purple, Blue-Orange, Red-Green
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Optical Effect
Optical Art is a mathematically-oriented form of (usually)
Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to
create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, an exaggerated sense
of depth, foreground-background confusion, and other visual
effects.
In a sense all painting is based on tricks of visual perception:
using rules of perspective to give the illusion of threedimensional space, mixing colors to give the impression of light
and shadow, and so on.
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Optical Effect
With Optical Art, the rules that the eye applies to
makes sense of a visual image are themselves the
"subject" of the artwork.
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Optical Effect
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Optical Effect
 Contrast in value can be used to create
emphasis.
 Change in value delineate objects in the
same way that line defines the edges
an object.
 The greater the contrast of the values
used, the more pronounced the
delineation.
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