COLOR THEORY
COLOR WHEEL THE MODERN COLOR WHEEL HAS 12 COLORS ROY G. BiV + TERTIARY
COLOR HARMONY HARMONY DEFINED: a pleasing arrangement of parts COLOR RELATIONSHIP: the fixed relationship between colors based on the color wheel COLOR SCHEMES: Complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, monochromatic, warm/cool, tetradic (rectangle), square
COMPLEMENTARY Colors opposite each other on the color wheel
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel ANALOGOUS Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
Colors that are evenly spaced around the wheel TRIADIC Colors that are evenly spaced around the wheel
A color and the two colors adjacent to it’s complement SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY A color and the two colors adjacent to it’s complement
MONOCHROMATIC Variation in lightness or saturation of a single color
WARM/COOL The color wheel is divided in two – warm and cool
SQUARE: four colors spaced evenly around the color wheel RECTANGLE (tetradic): two sets of complementary colors
GEORGE BASELITZ
ALEX PRAGER
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
MERELLO
EDVARD MUNCH
GRANT WOOD