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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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017 Color Theory

Color theory offers a conceptual framework for understanding color perception.

In 1839, a standard color wheel was implemented by Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) in which primary colors stand opposite each other and are known as “complementaries.” This relatively crude understanding was superseded by the work of the American scientist Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918).

Munsell identified three properties of color:

• Lightness (how light or dark a color is)

• Chroma (the amount of color)

• Hue (the position on the color wheel)

To model color relationships, Munsell proposed a sphere in which the hues of the color wheel form the equator. Lightness is represented by the north and south poles, with white at the top and black at ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431