The Elements of ColorA useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten's major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten's color circle and color contrasts. |
Contents
Foreword and evaluation | 6 |
Color Physics | 15 |
Subjective Timbre | 26 |
The Seven Color Contrasts | 33 |
Color Mixing | 64 |
Color Harmony | 72 |
Theory of Color Impression | 79 |
Composition 91 | |
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The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten ... Johannes Itten No preview available - 1970 |
Common terms and phrases
12-hue color circle afterimage artist background Bauhaus blue-green blue-violet bluish Cézanne character chromatic colors cold and warm cold-warm contrast color areas color combinations color composition color contrast color effect color expression color harmony color sphere color theory colors of objects complementary colors complementary pairs Contrast of extension contrast of hue contrast of saturation Delacroix depth effect diagonal diluted El Greco exercises form and color given color Goethe gradations gray square Greco Grünewald horizontal Impressionists intense Isenheim altarpiece Jan van Eyck Johannes Itten Kandinsky light and dark light-dark contrast luminous Matthias Grünewald mixtures modulations nature neutral gray orange painters painting pairs of complementaries Philipp Otto Runge pigments proportions pure colors radiant red-orange red-violet Rembrandt shows simultaneous contrast simultaneous effect spectrum subjective color symbolic tetrads tints and shades tion tonal tones trast triad triangle vertical violet visual vivid wave lengths white and black yellow yellow-green yellow-orange