Exam 5: Color

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.

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 ________.

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 ________.

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

In a digital display, color is created when light cells called ________ illuminate.

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

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

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

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

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

Most commercial color printing is achieved using four separate colors, represented by the matrix ________.

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

When Matisse executed the work Icarus, he could no longer hold a brush for long periods of time. Instead he created it using this process:

If the artist had used a different color palette for his scene Interior with Figures, how might the emotional response of the viewer change?

If you were to choose the color scheme for a health retreat, red would be a good color to pick.

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

Why did the ceramist who created the underglaze-painted lamp from the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, use green as one of the main colors?

In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh wrote about The Night Café: "I have tried to express with red and green the terrible passions of human nature." Discuss what van Gogh meant by this statement, and how color helps communicate this idea.

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

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