Art - Color Wheel

landscape

a picture of the outdoors

foreground

area closest to the viewer (bottom third of the picture)

middle ground

area in the middle (middle third of the picture)

background

area farthest away from the viewer (top third of the picture)

paul cezanne

A French, Post-Impressionist, Painter (Post-Impressionists’ explored color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the development of expressionism.)

hue

color

primary colors

yellow, red, blue

secondary colors

orange, green, violet

tertiary colors

red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet

shade

color plus black

tint

color plus white

value

a scale of tints and shades from light to dark