Part Four: Beginning Color Studies

Question 1

T/F? The names of specific colors are the most important information when understanding
color.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

T/F? We often see prismatic color in Western paintings between the fifteenth and twentieth
centuries.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

List five ways in which chromatic grays and muted colors can be mixed from a highly
saturated color straight from a tube.

Answer 3

Add white; add black; add its complement; add chromatic

gray; add achromatic gray

Question 4

According to Munsell’s color system, each hue is linked to _______ values and _______ levels
of saturation.

Answer 4

10; 14

Question 5

What does it mean if a group of colors is “keyed”?

Answer 5

They are tightly unified in one or more of their three

structural parts.

Question 6

Keyed

Answer 6

when a group of colors are tightly unified in either hue, saturation, value, or combinations of them.

Question 7

Low Key

Answer 7

colors are predominantly dark by value

Question 8

High Key

Answer 8

colors are predominantly light by value

Question 9

Explain Muncell’s color notation.

Answer 9

Albert H. Muncell was dissatisfied with color names, which he regarded as unreliable and “foolish”, so he devised a naming system based on hue, value, and saturation. He broke the color wheel down into 5 hues, and 5 intermediate hues. The hues were divided again into 10. Each hue is linked to 10 values and 14 levels of saturation.