The Importance Of Color In Art

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There are some basic elements in the art was very important. These elements such as line, shape, form, space, value, texture, and last but not least, colour. Colour can be considered as the most generally appreciated things in the world . Everything that we see, consist of colours, actually, there is no colours. The colours that we see with our eyes are actually the process of reflection of light on a certain surface. As we know, the colours of the rainbow are the refraction of the sunlight from the water droplets in the atmosphere. If there is no light, there is no colour. Thus, light is the source of colour. When there is a sufficient of light source, colours will have a sharper and stronger visual appearance to our naked eyes; in a contrast,…show more content…
Another name known for value is chromatic value. Value is the quantity of colour that was reflected by light, in other word, it is known as the brightness and darkness of the colour (Ocvirk et al., 2009). Changes will occur in value when the colour is mixed with white pigments or black pigments in various proportions. Singh (2003) says that any colour that has the highest value shows white colour whereas any colour with the lowest value shows black colour. For example, white color will be visible in light red while black color will be visible in dark red. Value continuum includes many values; grayscale is the full gamut of values that simplified into a graduated scale. (Homung, 2005) Apart from that, the higher the amount of contrast in value the easier the object to be seen, on the other hand, objects are harder to detect when the contrast value appears low (Holtzshue, 2002). Changes in value can remain the maximum intensity or reduce the intensity (Bellamy, 2005). Furthermore, value able to creates space, turns shape into form and imparts emotion. Feisner (2006) mentioned that contrast in value is the product of different in value, then shapes and spaces are delineated by contrast. Feisner and Redd (2006) indicate that close values can create feelings of haziness, softness, vagueness, indeterminacy, quiet and brooding while sharp contrast in value creates effect of precision, firmness and objectivity. Colour value is used by artists…show more content…
Itten (1970) pointed out that intensity, saturation or chroma is the purity of light. Intensity can vary from zero to around one hundred percent. As mentioned by Homung (2005), intensity has four categories; these four categories are prismatic colours, muted colours, chromatic grays and achromatic grays. Prismatic colours are pure in hue. Muted colours is the range from rich colours exactly outside of the prismatic zone, muted colours can be produced from prismatic colour mixing with black, white or gray. Chromatic grays possess a subtle but discernible hue. To create chromatic grays, larger quantities of black, white and gray are needed. Achromatic grays compose the inner circle of the colour wheel. Grays which resulted in the mixture of black and white are achromatic because both colours lacking of perceptible hue and intensity. The effective was to produce gray is mixing two contrasting hue or three primary hues equally, the gray will be warmer and deeper than the results in mixture of black and white (Bellamy, 2005). Feisner. 2006 claims that colour is achromatic and has the lowest intensity when no hue is present. Gray are achromatic and considered more bright than black and more intense than white. Intensity is similar with brilliance but there is a difference between intensity and brilliance, intensity focus on the quantity of hue in colour while brilliance focus on the amount of grayness present in colour. In the same hue,

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