Professor Betsy Lohrer Hall
Art 101, Gateways to Art
Consolidated Notes, Ch 1.4
Gateways to Art, 2nd edition
Chapter One: 1.4 pp. 101 - 118 topics covered in this chapter:
• COLOR, LIGHT, AND PIGMENT
• ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
• COLOR WHEELS
• SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OF COLOR
• KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF COLOR
• THE SENSATION OF COLOR
• INTERPRETING COLOR
• THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR vocabulary to focus on in this chapter: wavelength prism pigment additive color subtractive color primary colors secondary colors tertiary colors complementary colors analogous colors impressionist, impressionism
tint shade monochromatic cubism, cubist palette chroma Fauves temperature optical color pointillism figures for closer study: Vasily Kandinsky, Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party, 1893 Kane Kwei, Coffin in the shape of a Cocoa Pod, c. 1970 Mark Tansey, Picasso and Braque, 1992 Andre Derain, The Turning Road, L’Estaque, 1906 Georges Seurat, The Circus, 1890 – 1891 Vincent van Gogh, The Night Café, 1888
Professor Betsy Lohrer Hall
Art 101, Gateways to Art
Consolidated Notes, Ch 1.4 significant quotes/concepts to consider: “we cannot perceive color without light. Light consists of energy that travels in waves, much as water forms waves. The distance between the peak of each wave of this energy is its wavelength.” p. 101 “…the colors we see in objects are those portions of the light spectrum that a surface fails to absorb, and reflects instead. So, if the surface…contains blue pigment, when white light reaches that surface, all ...
