Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Colour - Johannes Itten


-  Great master colourists possessed a science of colour. 
- Colour acquires human meaning and perception. 
- The eye and the mind achieve distinctive perception through comparison and contrast.
- The value of chromatic colour may be determined in relation to achromatic colour.

Chromatic Colour - Colour with many hues and values.

Achromatic Colour -  Colour that lacks hues and values, black and white, grey.

- Colour perception is the psychophysiological reality. 
- A yellow square on white and black, on white the yellow looks darker, on black yellow looks bright and cold tones. 
- Colour is the chief vehicle of expression. 
- Colour has to be added first. 'He who first draws lines then adds colour, will never succeed in producing a clear, intense, colour effect. 
- Colours have dimensions and reality of their own. 
- Colour harmony is the joint effect of two or more colours. 
- Colour combinations are subjective and people differ in their judgements of harmony and discord. 
- Harmonious colours are usually of similar chromatic values or the same shades. 
- The harmony of colours is judged on a scale of agreeable/disagreeable and attractive/unattractive. 
- Harmony within colour, implies balance, and symmetry of forces. 
- Any pair of complementary colours contains the three primary colours. 
- Two or more colours are mutually harmonious if their mixture produces a yield of neutral grey. 









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