The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of ColorReinhold, 1961 - 155 pages In this book, the world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions. |
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12-hue color circle artist background blue-green blue-violet Braun & Cie Cézanne chord chromatic colors cold and warm cold-warm contrast color areas color circle color combinations color composition color effect color sphere color theory complementary colors complementary pairs contrast of extension contrast of hue contrast of proportion darkened depth effect diagonal diluted dull El Greco Enguerrand Charonton Etablissements Braun expressive values figures form and color Georges Seurat Greco green Grünewald Henri Matisse horizontal Impressionists intense Isenheim altarpiece Konrad Witz light and dark light-dark contrast luminous mixed mixture modulations Mulhouse Mulhouse Plate Musée nature neutral gray objective orange painters painting pair of complementary Paris Paul Cézanne pictorial picture pink plane polytones principles produced pure colors red-orange red-violet Rembrandt shadow shapes shows simultaneous contrast square subjective color symbolic tetrad tints and shades tonal tones triad triangle vertical violet white and black yellow yellow-green yellowish zone