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color wheel
The first ________ was developed by Sir Isaac Newton around the start of the 17th century.
Color theory
________: a body of principles which provide guidance on the relationship between colors and the physiological impacts of certain color combinations.
Color theory
a body of principles which provide guidance on the relationship between colors and the physiological impacts of certain color combinations
Tertiary colors are made by
mixing primary and secondary colors
General principals of color theory were evident in
writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490)
Isaac Newton's color wheel was
an arrangement of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet on a rotating disk.
Since the origination of the color wheel by Newton,
it has become one of the most powerful tools available to artists for explaining the relationship between colors.
There are ___ tertiary colors
six
Color theory is one of the most
fundamental areas of painting.
The importance of understanding color theory
far exceeds simply knowing how to mix colors together
Using the primary colors,
you could mix pretty much any color in the spectrum.
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