Exam 4: Color

When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.

Because additive color mixtures are made using light,they rely heavily on pigment.

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

Cecilia Beaux's strong use of the color red in her self-portrait,which was commissioned for the prestigious Uffizi Gallery in Florence,Italy,may have been an expression of ________,related to an event that had happened before she started the project.

The artist Adrian Kondratowicz was able to elicit a positive emotion from his Harlem community by distributing ________.

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

By using ________ color scheme in his painting Twilight in the Wilderness,Frederic Edwin Church intensified the drama of the vast natural landscape.

Paul Gauguin's use of the color ________ in his depiction of a crucified Christ enhances the work's connection with the seasons,and expresses a message of optimism and rebirth.

Most commercial color printing is achieved using three primary colors and black.These primaries are ________.

When he experimented with the relationship between adjacent colors,________ showed that the human eye can be deceived by color.

Color associations vary by culture.For example,an American bride would probably wear white,while her Asian counterpart might wear ________.

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue,compared to another hue,is known as ________.

The use of strong chromatic color in The Turning Road,L'Estaque by André Derain gives the work a feeling of ________.

Color can be used for healing purposes.The ancient Persian philosopher Avicenna believed that looking at the color ________ had beneficial effects.

Color ________ can be relative to the other colors nearby.For example,violet can be warm if we see it next to a hot color like red,or cool if we see it next to a colder color like blue.

If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet,blue,green,yellow,and orange,what color would the t-shirt appear to be?

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint.A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

The artist Vasily Kandinsky advocated the use of primary colors,which cannot be mixed from any other color combination.

In a letter to his brother Theo,Vincent van Gogh wrote about The Night Café: "I have tried to express with red and green the terrible passions of human nature." Discuss what Van Gogh meant by this statement,and how color helps communicate this idea.

We generally associate a color with its purest,most intense state,or its highest level of ________.