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 * This wiki is designed for students and educators to use as a resource for information regarding color theory and artists who incorporate color into their works of art. **

**What is Color Theory?** media type="custom" key="11891978" **Color Theory is. . .**

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"Color Theory is a set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations. Color relationships can be visually represented with a color wheel — the color spectrum wrapped onto a circle." "According to color theory, harmonious color combinations use any two colors opposite each other on the color wheel, any three colors equally spaced around the color wheel forming a triangle, or any four colors forming a rectangle (actually, two pairs of colors opposite each other). The harmonious color combinations are called color schemes – sometimes the term 'color harmonies' is also used. Color schemes remain harmonious regardless of the rotation angle." []


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In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combination. There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the color wheel: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors. Although color theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), a tradition of "colory theory" began in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of color (//Opticks//, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colors. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only superficial reference to colorimetry and vision science. []

**** Hans_Hofmann's_painting_'The_Gate',_1959–60.jpg‎ (368 × 573 pixels, file size: 66 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Hans Hofmann's oil on canvas painting 'The Gate', 1959–60. , 75 x 48.5 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum media type="custom" key="11891784"
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Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.[]

=The art of color: the subjective experience and objective rationale of color= By Johannes Itten [|http://books.google.com/books?id=D-skaDZAumIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=color+theory+books&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gpHvTvOzHaTi0QGrtdTICQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=color%20theory%20books&f=false]

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=Degas and Pastels: Part I= December 20, 2011 by [|Karen Schneider]