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Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to form. Harmony implies balance, symmetry of forces. - Johannes Itten, from The Art of Color LIGHT IMPRESSION ALTERING COLOR • • • • • HUE SATURATION BRILLIANCE EXTENSION SIMULTANEOUS HUE • Gradation of Color • Name and properties or mixture of a color that enables it to be perceived • White, gray, and black have no hue hue / saturation / value SATURATION • The level and mixture of white, black, grey or complimentary included in color BRILLIANCE / VALUE • Lightness or darkness of a color • Lightened values are tints, darkened values are shades and medium value colors are described as midtones BRILLIANCE / VALUE • HOW LIGHT OR DARK A COLOR IS COLORS OF EQUAL BRILLIANCE EXTENSION • PROPORTIONS OF COLOR SIMULTANEOUS • SHIFTING OF COLORS TO COMPLIMENTARY COLOR AGENT AND COLOR EFFECT COLOR EXPRESSION 12 HUE COLOR CIRCLE PRIMARY / SECONDARY / TERTIARY Analogous Colors Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Seven Color Contrasts 1. Contrast of Hue 2. Light – Dark Contrast 3. Cold – Warm Contrast 4. Complementary Contrast 5. Simultaneous Contrast 6. Contrast of Saturation 7. Contrast of Extension Contrast of Hue At least three clearly differentiated hues are necessary Light – Dark Contrast Alec Soth Cold - Warm Contrast Martin Parr and Gregory Crewdson COLD - WARM PROPERTIES •Shadow / Sun •Transparent / Opaque •Sedative / Stimulant •Airy / Earthy •Far / Near •Wet / Dry Complimentary Contrast Complementary colors are opposite each other on the Color Wheel. Christian Patterson / William Eggleston / William Christenberry SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST — The appearance of something being affected by the appearance of things surrounding it — The simultaneously generated complementary color occurs as a sensation in the eye of the beholder, and is not objectively present. — Refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other CONTRAST OF SATURATION Pure colors may be diluted in four different ways: 1. Color diluted with white 2. Color diluted with black 3. Color diluted with gray 4. Color diluted by a mixture of corresponding complementary colors CONTRAST OF EXTENSION Involves the relative size of two or more areas of color. It is the contrast between large and small areas. YELLOW YELLOW Martin Parr Dakar (yellow dress), 2001 YELLOW Tim Davis McDonalds 1, Forsythia from Retail YELLOW Andrew Bush YELLOW Alec Soth from Sleeping Along the Mississippi YELLOW William Eggleston Untitled (Yellow Gas Station Restroom) YELLOW Martin Parr from Great Britain YELLOW Liz Kuball from California Vernacular YELLOW Amir Zaki Untitled (Tower 42) YELLOW Andreas Gursky RED Pieter Hugo Gabazzini Zuo. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008 RED RED Martin Parr RED Richard Misrach from Desert Cantos (Violent Legacies) RED Brian Ulrich RED Alec Soth from Niagara RED Alec Soth RED Alec Soth from Niagara RED John Pfahl, B-58 Hustler Pd / Galisteo Basin Petroglyphs RED RED David Lachapelle RED Alec Soth RED Andrew Bush Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997 RED Martin Parr Cara Phillips RED Martin Parr Essex Girl RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Tess and Her Pink Things RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Yealin Ham and Her Pink Things 2005 BLUE JeongMee Yoon The Blue Project - Jeonghoon and His Blue Things BLUE BLUE Alec Soth from Niagara BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar BLUE Michael Light from 100 Suns BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In BLUE Alec Soth BLUE Cara Philips BLUE Cara Philips from Singular Beauty BLUE Olaf Breuning GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar GREEN Brad Moore GREEN Andreas Gursky GREEN William Eggleston GREEN Richard Renaldi from Touching Strangers GREEN William Eggleston GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar GREEN Stephen Shore GREEN Helen Levitt New York City, 1980 GREEN Larry Sultan from Pictures from Home GREEN Thomas Demand GREEN Catherine Wagner A Narrative History of the Lightbulb: Green Energy GREEN GREEN Martin Parr GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay ORANGE Michael Light Sun City, AZ ORANGE Liz Kuball ORANGE Joel Sternfeld ORANGE Michael Light GRABLE, 15 Kilotons, Nevada 1953 from 100 Suns ORANGE Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #34 ORANGE Alec Soth ORANGE Martin Parr ORANGE Brian Ulrich VIOLET Christian Patterson Lamplighter Jukebox, 2005 VIOLET Tim Davis VIOLET Christian Patterson VIOLET Andreas Gursky Hong Kong Stock Exchange II VIOLET Mitch Epstein Liquidation Sale VIOLET Alec Soth VIOLET Candida Höfer
