MODULE 1: Introduction to Color Theory

Question 1

is a function of light. If you isolate a bit of landscape or objects in the distance, view them first in full sunlight and then at nightfall, your perception of their colors will be very different.

The brains pick up these spectrum variations and turn them into the process we call ______.

Answer 1

Color

Question 2

is both the study and the practice of color use. This describes how people interpret colour; and the visual effects of how colors blend, complement or contrast with each other. It also includes the exchange of light messages; and the techniques used to replicate color.

Answer 2

Color Theory

Question 3

In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.By scientifically establishing our visible spectrum (the colors we see in a rainbow), Newton laid the path for others to experiment with color in a scientific manner. His work led to
breakthroughs in optics, physics, chemistry, perception, and the study of color in nature.

Answer 3

Newton’s Rainbow

Question 4

developed the first known theory of color believing it was sent by God from heaven through celestial rays of light. He suggested that all colors came from white and black (lightness and darkness) and related them to the four elements; water, air, earth, and fire.

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

Opticks, one of the great works in the history of science, documents Newton’s discoveries from his experiments passing light through a prism. He identified the ROYGBIV colors (_________) that make up the visible spectrum.

Answer 5

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet

Question 6

is best known for his poetry and prose, he consideredTheory of Colorshis most important work.Like Newton, _____ attempted to “conceive nature in her simplest, most conspicuous creations,” although he proposed to do so “without the aid of mathematics”.

Answer 6

Goethe

Question 7

_____, although not strictly scientific, was monumental in its breadth of data and investigation. Goethe conducted numerous experiments with color to address the gaps he perceived in Newton’s theory, a holistically scientific approach similar to the rigor of Newton’s prism experiments

Answer 7

The 1810 publication Theory of Colours

Question 8

The ______ is the narrow portion within the electromagnetic spectrum that can be seen by the human eye.

Answer 8

visible spectrum

Question 9

Other forms of electromagnetic radiation, waves of energy, that we cannot see include ______

Answer 9

radio, gamma and microwaves.