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I will be sharing the lecture i took during the 'Color Theory' class (my notes at least) as a form of a tutorial. This way i can remember them more easily, and help people who might be skimming thru this blog.



•Aristotle (Ancient Greece): color is light reflected by the gods.

•Aquilonius: Reneissance, between 15th and 16th centuryin Europe. Studied how colors change from dawn to dusk.

•Issac Newton: (year 1666 - scientific approach) introduced a beam of light into glass prism and collected the resulting spectrum using lens to form white light again (to prove that the spectrum caused by the refraction of light is not found in the prism) He believed in the presence of 7 colors: ROYGBIV = red,

•Goethe: (year 1800- psychological study) psychological effect of colors, how to use colors in art. he used the equilateral triangle to demonstrate the colors.

•Philip Otto Runge: German painter and theorist. Influenced by Isaac Newton's color wheel which he used on the axis of a sphere. the color degraded into tints ( = color mixed with white) leading to the white color and shades (= color mixed with balck) leading to black.- this model was used to show volume.

•Sir James Maxwell: (year 1872) Scottish physicist impressed by Goethe's model. he worked with light rather than pigments.

•Albert Munsell: american art teacher, inspired by Otto's sphere. criticized it saying all colors are on the same level which is wrong. Did a chart depending on the color's value.

NOTES:

with Pigments:

1.primary colors: can't get them thru mixture, but can get all colors by mixing them with other colors. REG, BLUE, YELLOW.
2.secondary colors: we get them by mixing two primary colors: ORANGE,GREEN, VIOLET
3.intermediate colors: mixing one primary and one secondary color.
4.tertiary colors: mixing secondary colors with each other.

with Light:

1.primary colors: Red, Green, Blue (RGB)
2.secondary colors: magenta (blue + red), cyan( Green + blue) , yellow (green + red), white (R+G+B)