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Mark Rothko

Complementary Colors

What are Complementary Colors?Colors which lie directly across from each other on the color wheel.

Also called Color Dyads, since they’re in pairs.

The major Complementary Colors consist of the three Primaries and their Secondaries:

(Primary) (Secondary)

Red Green

Yellow Violet

Blue Orange

Every color has a complement.Complementary Colors can complement, enhance and balance each other. They produce the highest color contrast (after Black & White). Their INTENSITY is heightened when paired alongside each other.

BUT…

Andy Warholcommissioned work of Muhammed Ali

Katy Grannan’s Cassandra

Hindu Deities Krishna and Radha in a Grove, 1780. (gouache on paper)Persian Miniature Painting

3 Properties of Color

1) VALUE2) HUE3) SATURATION / INTENSITY

3 Properties of Color

3) SATURATION / INTENSITY

Complementary Colors can also neutralize or cancel each other out. When mixed together, their original INTENSITY is suppressed, leading us to

Chromatic Neutral Grays…

Soon Y. Warren (watercolor)

Seated Womanoil and charcoal / board 54" x 36"1940

Willem de Kooning

La Fenetre Ouverte, 1921

Complementary Color combinationsfound outside the Fine Art world…

Jack Lenor Larsen’s Red Garden

Ad for Havaianas sandals 2008

And in sports!

ALBERS’ COLOR RELATIVITY:

The 3 Principles of Color Interaction1. Light/Dark Value Contrast2. Complementary Reaction or Effect3. Subtraction

ALBERS’ COLOR RELATIVITY:

The 3rd Principle of Color Interaction

3. Subtraction

Principle 1:LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST

Principle 1 & 2:LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST & SUBTRACTION

Principle 3COMPLEMENTARY REACTION/EFFECT

Principle 3:COMPLEMENTARY REACTION

OR EFFECT

Our eye “seeks” the complement of any given color. For example, you’re staring at a red stop sign for a long period of

time…your RGB photoreceptors grow tired, namely the R-receptor. Therefore, G-receptor comes to the rescue and

“appears” to give the R-receptor a break.

Exercises:

Work time on 2 RE-Master Paintings

*Collect Apocalypstick written responses…

DUE NEXT WEEK:-2 RE-MASTER Painting / Collage: Achromatic & Monochromatic