56ITTEN’S THE ART OF COLOR
An influential book written by Johannes Itten, a Swiss artist, designer, educator, and color theorist
Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was appointed as one of the first teachers at the Bauhaus school in Germany, where he taught from 1919 to 1923. He played a key role in the development of the “preliminary course,” which was designed to teach students the basic foundational concepts about composition, materials, and color.
In 1961 Itten published The Art of Color, a book on color theory that expanded on his earlier ideas. This influential book promoted a twelve-hue color wheel based on perceptually “pure” red, yellow, and ...
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