1. Mark Rothko

2. Complementary Colors

3. What are Complementary Colors?
Colors which lie directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Also called Color Dyads, since they’re in pairs.

4. Red  Green Yellow  Violet Blue  Orange
The major Complementary Colors consist of
the three Primaries and their Secondaries:
(Primary) (Secondary)
Red  Green
Yellow  Violet
Blue  Orange

5. Every color has a complement.
Complementary Colors can complement, enhance and balance each other. They produce the highest color contrast (after Black & White). Their INTENSITY is heightened when paired alongside each other.
BUT…

6. Andy Warhol
commissioned work of Muhammed Ali

7. Katy Grannan’s Cassandra

8. Persian Miniature Painting
Hindu Deities Krishna and Radha in a Grove, (gouache on paper)
Persian Miniature Painting

9. 3 Properties of Color
VALUE
HUE
SATURATION / INTENSITY

10. 3 Properties of Color
3) SATURATION / INTENSITY

11. Complementary Colors can also neutralize or cancel each other out
Complementary Colors can also neutralize or cancel each other out. When mixed together, their original INTENSITY is suppressed, leading us to Chromatic Neutral Grays…
Soon Y. Warren (watercolor)

12. Willem de Kooning
Seated Woman oil and charcoal / board    
54" x 36" 1940

13. La Fenetre Ouverte, 1921

14. Complementary Color combinations found outside the Fine Art world…

15. Jack Lenor Larsen’s Red Garden

16. Ad for Havaianas sandals 2008

17. And in sports!

18. ALBERS’ COLOR RELATIVITY:
The 3 Principles of Color Interaction
1. Light/Dark Value Contrast
2. Complementary Reaction or Effect
3. Subtraction

19. ALBERS’ COLOR RELATIVITY:
The 3rd Principle of Color Interaction
3. Subtraction

20. Principle 1: LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST

21. LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST & SUBTRACTION
Principle 1 & 2:
LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST & SUBTRACTION

22. COMPLEMENTARY REACTION/EFFECT
Principle 3
COMPLEMENTARY REACTION/EFFECT

23. Principle 3: COMPLEMENTARY REACTION OR EFFECT Our eye “seeks” the complement of any given color. For example, you’re staring at a red stop sign for a long period of time…your RGB photoreceptors grow tired, namely the R-receptor. Therefore, G-receptor comes to the rescue and “appears” to give the R-receptor a break.

25. Jessica Stockholder
Interview Art:21

26. Exercises: Work time on 2 RE-Master Paintings
*Collect Apocalypstick written responses…
DUE NEXT WEEK:
-2 RE-MASTER Painting / Collage: Achromatic & Monochromatic