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Color and Art Midterm
Midterm GLossary
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/26/2011

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Additive mixing (light)
Definition
adding light to make colors
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Appearance
Definition
how your brain interprets things
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Distal Stimulus
Definition
stuff thats in the distance
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Evocation
Definition
what color makes us feel
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Fugitive color
Definition
colors go away, fade with ultraviolet light, degrades over time
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Gray Scale
Definition
Even perceptual steps between light and dark
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Hue
Definition
Position on a color wheel
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Inherent value
Definition
the gray of a black and white photo; Value it starts out with is max saturation; white has highest inherent value, which is 1;
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Icon
Definition
Resembles something else
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Index
Definition
has a causal relationship (alot of smoke= big fire)
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Itten's Contrasts
Definition
Hue, value, saturation vs. unsaturation, cool vs. warm, simultaneous, complementary, extension
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Muted Color
Definition
distinct hue family, but not prismatic
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Opponent theory
Definition
How your brain makes sense of opponent colors (there can't be a red-green)
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Partitive mixing
Definition
Little dots from far away that look like a different color- failure of mechanism.
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Prismatic colors
Definition
The most saturated of a paint color from a hue family
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Proximal stimulus
Definition
Within our mechanism (eye) giving a stimulation
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Sign
Definition
something that stands for something else
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Stable color
Definition
more permanent, lasts for a long time
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Stroop test
Definition
Names of colors written in different colrs (language wins over color)
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Subtractive mixing (paint)
Definition
Mixing paints, gets less saturated, subtracting light
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Symbol
Definition
Code, it has to be learned
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Synesthesia
Definition
A comparison of music and color; hear-color; taste-sound
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Thought forms and theosophy
Definition
Does a color want to be a shape; theosophy- study whats true
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Tristimulus Theory
Definition
theory that we have three color receptors in our eyes; red blue green cons
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Value
Definition
light or dark
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