Color is a property of light, not objects.
	White light contains all wave lengths. Black objects absorb all wave lengths.
	Objects absorb the wave lengths of light that we do not see. They reflect the wave lengths that we do see.

When you see blue, the red and yellow light is absorbed. When you see red, the blue and yellow light is absorbed.

	Sunlight is made up of all colors that the human eye can see.
	Light of different colors is refracted by different amounts when it passes from one medium into another .

	Incandescent lighting has a red-orange color.
	It is thought to produce light that is more flattering to human skin tones.
	It is less energy efficient.

	Fluorescent light has a green-blue cast.
	It is more efficient, but considered less flattering.

	Help us to match and identify color.
	The simplest system is sometimes referred to as the elementary color system.

It has three primary and three secondary colors on a basic 12 hue color wheel.

	Has 5 primary colors and 5 secondary colors.
	Colors are defined in three dimensions.

The lightness or darkness of a color.

	The brightness or dullness of a color.
	It is changed by adding the complimentary color.

Ostwald

two dimensional: hue and value

Complimentary

Varying values and intensities of two colors opposite on the color wheel.

	Triadic
	Monochromatic

Varying values and intensities of one color.

Analogous

Three hues adjacent on the color wheel.

From the 1492 Exhibit, Library of Congress

Marc Chagall

Erte

	Realistic - Winslow Homer
	Optical - Claude Monet
	Arbitrary - Matisse & Munch

	Considered a warm color, an advancing color.
	Passage of time is overestimated in a red surround.
	It is an active color.
	Used in fast food restaurants
	Red cars are considered faster. We have a greater urge to pass them.

	Considered a restful color.
	It is a receding color.
	Time is underestimated in a blue surround.

	Blue was considered weak.
	Yellow too harsh.

	The color of Madmen-Kandinsky
	A visually fatiguing color

Juan Miro & Munch