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CROMATIC CIRCLE

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” ― [|Oscar Wilde]

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CURIOUS FACTS Sir Isaac Newton first represented the relationship of colors to one another in the form of a circle after he observed a beam of sunlight passing through a prism, producing a rainbow.

What do you think the rainbow has to do with the color wheel?/How did Isaac Newton make the color wheel out of a rainbow? [By joining the two ends of the visible spectrum; i.e. red and violet, to create a circle.]

One hundred years later, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German writer and scientist, studied how colors make us feel. He discovered that blue evoked quiet moods and that red evoked cheerfulness.

EXERCISE : Each student will create their own wheel of color in their research notebook to have it always as a reference when they have color decisions



VOCABULARY Color Wheel — a chart that shows the relationship of different colors to each other. Achromatic - free of color Analogous - hues that are next to one another on the color wheel Chromatic - having color Complementary - the colors opposite to each other on the color wheel Cool - the colors on the green-blue side of the color wheel / Hue another word for color

Monochromatic - having one color Polychromatic having many colors

Primary Colors  colors from which all other colors are made red, blue and yellow

Secondary Colors - olors that are created from equal amounts of a pair of primary colors orange, green and purple.

Symmetry - similarity on both sides of a dividing line. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tertiary Colors <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">colors made from equal amounts of a pair of primary and secondary colors(red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange)

Analogous colors — hues that are next to each other on the color wheel

Monochromatic — having one color (or using different tints and shades of the same color in

Polychromatic — having more than one color

Achromatic — free of color

Cool Colors — the hues on the green/blue/violet side of the color wheel

Warm Colors — the hues on the red/orange/yellow side of the color wheel

Symmetry — similarity on both sides of a dividing line

Composition — the arrangement of elements (including color!) in an artwork