1.4 Color

Color associations can be both culturally specific and universal. Red is a color that can arouse universal feelings, such as these three:

Aggression, passion, eroticism

________ in particular is an element of art that can engage the viewer and express a wide range of emotions.

Color

Most commercial color printing is achieved using three primary colors and black. These primaries are ________.

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow

An artwork that uses many hues but only one value is called monochromatic.

False

Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could.

Fauve

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors, ________ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color.

Josef Albers

The traditional primary colors are ________.

Red, Yellow, Blue

The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors, which cannot be mixed from any other color combination.

True

By using ________ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

a complementary

The American artist Mark Tansey used ________ color palette when he painted his homage to Cubism titled Picasso and Braque.

a monochromatic

Physicists have explained that when we see a color, it is the portion of the light spectrum that a surface fails to ________.

absorb

Colors that do not contrast strongly with each other, and which are similar in wavelength, are ________ colors.

analogous

This is the most vivid element of art and design.

color

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

complementary colors

The use of strong chromatic color in The Turning Road, L'Estaque by André Derain gives the work a feeling of ________.

energy

Analogous color combinations can be used to create unity and steer viewers toward a particular attitude or emotion. Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party uses yellow, green, and blue hues to create a ________ and ________ composition.

harmonious...relaxed

The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.

hue

The varying color tones in Ancient Sound by Paul Klee were intended to be associated with ________.

music

We see this type of color when the brain receives so much color information that it is forced to simplify what we perceive.

optical color

Cecilia Beaux's strong use of the color red in her self-portrait, which was commissioned for the prestigious Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, may have been an expression of ________, related to an event that had happened before she started the project.

pain

The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing ________.

pink polka-dot trash bags

The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.

pointillism

This object can be used to separate white light into the colors of the spectrum.

prism

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange, what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

red

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

saturation

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

shade

When ________ colors are mixed, they make a duller and darker color because more of the visible spectrum is absorbed.

subtractive

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby. For example, violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red, or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

temperature

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

temperature

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

value

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

vibrate

Paul Gauguin's use of the color ________ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons, and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

yellow