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50 playing with color
Challenge: Explore color contrast using Goethe’s theory of light value
Materials: Color-aid paper; gouache on watercolor paper
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the eminent German artist, writer, biologist,
and physicist, was the first to explain the relationship between color
and perception. He realized that our definition of color depends on how our
brains process the sensations caused by light.
Goethe was interested in color harmony. He devised a system of
proportion based on the brilliance, or light value, of primary and ...