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Composing With Color

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Composing With Color

Dana Schutz, Bad Instincts

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Spatial effects of colorsBrighter, more saturated (high keyed)

colors will seem to pull closer to the viewer than duller colors.

Colors that are lighter at pure saturation seem (yellows) will seem to take up more space when covering the same area than darker saturated colors (blues)

Full saturation colors will seem closer than dark keyed colors (shades)

Larger areas of brighter colors appear closer

Smaller shapes appear farther

Peter Halley

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Hans Hoffmann

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Luminosity: The appearance of Light in an image

Lighter colors placed within darker colors will create an illusion of luminosity, as will warm colors contrasted with cool colors.

Tobey Archer

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LIGHTER HEAVIER

Achromatic Colors

High Value (light)Colors

Medium-value Cool Colors

Low SaturationLight Colors

Inherently Light Hues

High SaturationColors

Dark ValueColors

High SaturationWarm Colors

High SaturationDark Colors

InherentlyDark Hues

Color weight: color’s tendency to seem to rise or fall in a composition (depending on it’s relationships)

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Traditional Color Contrasts, thought to balance a composition

Light/DarkContrast

Cool/WarmContrast

Hue Contrast

ComplementaryContrast

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Light/Dark Contrast

JWM Turner, Storm at Sea

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Graham Nickson

Warm/Cool Contrast

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Hue Contrast

Stuart Davis

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Complementary Contrast

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Compositional Tools to create harmony

Harmony: compositional oneness and cohesion. The following elements help create harmony:

• Repetition: The use of the same visual element (in this case, colors) to create unity

• Continuity: degree of flow between parts of a composition

• Focal points: Parts of the composition that command the viewer’s attention and allow them to look closer

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Ben Vautier, Store Repetition

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Romare Bearden

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Romare Bearden

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Henri Matisse

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Dana Schutz

As these colors blend into one another (white to yellow, blue to grey to yellow) they create continuity, allowing the viewer’s eye to travel from one section and one element to another

Continuity: elements that lead the viewer’s eye from one part of the composition to the next.

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James Rosenquist

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James Rosenquist

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Kaye Donachie

Emphasis will depend on a contrast of value, color, or saturation, causing one color-area to stand out.

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Van Gogh

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Focal Point: Contrast of complements

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Balance

• The equal distribution of weight or force among elements of a composition

• Symmetry: mirror imaging across an axis• Asymmetrical balance: uneven yet balanced

components to a composition (think of balance like a scale—it needn’t be

identical to be balanced—one ten lb. brick weights the same as ten one lb. bricks)

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Henri Matisse

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Elizabeth Murray

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Wassily Kandinsky

How is this painting balanced through color?

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Bruno Paul

This book jacket is not based on any color scheme. However, it ‘works’. The blue/green and red are similar values, as are the pink and yellow. The black stands out in contrast. Red, pink, and yellow are all warm, so the blue/green adds additional contrast.

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