Color theory exam review ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
hue, value, and intensity (saturation) - Correct answers✔✔What are the physical properties of
color?
-the generic name of a color (red, blue, green, etc.)
-designated a color's position on the color wheel
-is determined by the specific wavelength of the color in a ray of light - Correct answers✔✔hue
-the relative degree of lightness or darkness in an image
-chromatic value;lightness or darkness in a color - Correct answers✔✔value
-the saturation, strength, or purity of a hue (quality of light in a color)
-vivid colors= high intensity
-dull colors= low intensity
-(also referred to as saturation, brightness, or chroma) - Correct answers✔✔intensity
-color created by superimposing light rays (light and perception)
-adding together (or superimposing) the three primary colors of light (red, blue, green) will
produce white - Correct answers✔✔additive color
-the sensation of color that is produced when wavelengths of light are reflected back to the
viewer after all the other wavelengths have been subtracted/ absorbed
-secondary colors of light= cyan, yellow, magenta
-adding together ^^^ will create a dark, muddy black - Correct answers✔✔subtractive color
, - He investigated the physical nature of color around 1660. Having separated color into
spectrum- red on top and violet on the bottom- he was the first to conceive of it as a color wheel.
Ingeniously, he twisted what was a straight-line spectrum, joined the ends, and inserted purple, a
color leaning to red-violet and not found in the spectrum. This red violet he saw as a transition
between violet and red. Newton's wheel contained seven colors, which he related to the seven
known planets and the seven notes of the diatonic scale in music (the standard major scale
without chromatic half steps) -red corresponding to the note C, orange to D, yellow to E, green to
F, blue to G, indigo to A, and violet to B.
-projected white sunlight through a prism and a spectrum of colors was cast on a white surface
-the color spectrum appeared because a prism refracts light, bending the light rays and sorting the
colors of white light - Correct answers✔✔Why is Isaac Newton important? What did he do?
(during the early 19th century) he wanted to discover why the Gobelin tapestry works were
receiving complaints about the color stability of certain blues, browns, light violets, and blacks.
In charge of tints and dyed, he discovered that the problem was not a question of the dyestuffs,
but rather a phenomenon of color contrast. The appearance of these colors varied depending on
which color they were placed beside. The discoveries were the starting point for the Law of
Simultaneous Contrast of Colors, published in 1839. With this publication, Chevreul became the
"technical prophet" of two schools of painting that followed—Impressionism and Post-
Impressionism. Both groups of painters often juxtaposed complements that increased the
intensity of each other through simultaneous contrast. - Correct answers✔✔Why is M.E.
Chevreul important? What did he do?
around 1936, the American artist formulated a system to show the relationships between different
color tints and shades based on hue, value, and intensity. This system was an attempt to give
names to the many varieties of hues that result from mixing different colors with each other or
with the neutrals. American industry adopted the Munsell system in 1943 as its material standard
for naming different colors. The system was also adopted by the United States Bureau of
Standards in Washington, DC. In the Munsell system, the five basic hues on the color wheel are
red, yellow, green, blue, and purple (violet). The mixture of any two adjacent colors on this color
wheel is called an intermediate color. For example, the mixture of red and yellow is the
intermediate color yellow-red. To clarify color relationships, Munsell devised a 3D system (in
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
hue, value, and intensity (saturation) - Correct answers✔✔What are the physical properties of
color?
-the generic name of a color (red, blue, green, etc.)
-designated a color's position on the color wheel
-is determined by the specific wavelength of the color in a ray of light - Correct answers✔✔hue
-the relative degree of lightness or darkness in an image
-chromatic value;lightness or darkness in a color - Correct answers✔✔value
-the saturation, strength, or purity of a hue (quality of light in a color)
-vivid colors= high intensity
-dull colors= low intensity
-(also referred to as saturation, brightness, or chroma) - Correct answers✔✔intensity
-color created by superimposing light rays (light and perception)
-adding together (or superimposing) the three primary colors of light (red, blue, green) will
produce white - Correct answers✔✔additive color
-the sensation of color that is produced when wavelengths of light are reflected back to the
viewer after all the other wavelengths have been subtracted/ absorbed
-secondary colors of light= cyan, yellow, magenta
-adding together ^^^ will create a dark, muddy black - Correct answers✔✔subtractive color
, - He investigated the physical nature of color around 1660. Having separated color into
spectrum- red on top and violet on the bottom- he was the first to conceive of it as a color wheel.
Ingeniously, he twisted what was a straight-line spectrum, joined the ends, and inserted purple, a
color leaning to red-violet and not found in the spectrum. This red violet he saw as a transition
between violet and red. Newton's wheel contained seven colors, which he related to the seven
known planets and the seven notes of the diatonic scale in music (the standard major scale
without chromatic half steps) -red corresponding to the note C, orange to D, yellow to E, green to
F, blue to G, indigo to A, and violet to B.
-projected white sunlight through a prism and a spectrum of colors was cast on a white surface
-the color spectrum appeared because a prism refracts light, bending the light rays and sorting the
colors of white light - Correct answers✔✔Why is Isaac Newton important? What did he do?
(during the early 19th century) he wanted to discover why the Gobelin tapestry works were
receiving complaints about the color stability of certain blues, browns, light violets, and blacks.
In charge of tints and dyed, he discovered that the problem was not a question of the dyestuffs,
but rather a phenomenon of color contrast. The appearance of these colors varied depending on
which color they were placed beside. The discoveries were the starting point for the Law of
Simultaneous Contrast of Colors, published in 1839. With this publication, Chevreul became the
"technical prophet" of two schools of painting that followed—Impressionism and Post-
Impressionism. Both groups of painters often juxtaposed complements that increased the
intensity of each other through simultaneous contrast. - Correct answers✔✔Why is M.E.
Chevreul important? What did he do?
around 1936, the American artist formulated a system to show the relationships between different
color tints and shades based on hue, value, and intensity. This system was an attempt to give
names to the many varieties of hues that result from mixing different colors with each other or
with the neutrals. American industry adopted the Munsell system in 1943 as its material standard
for naming different colors. The system was also adopted by the United States Bureau of
Standards in Washington, DC. In the Munsell system, the five basic hues on the color wheel are
red, yellow, green, blue, and purple (violet). The mixture of any two adjacent colors on this color
wheel is called an intermediate color. For example, the mixture of red and yellow is the
intermediate color yellow-red. To clarify color relationships, Munsell devised a 3D system (in
