ARTS AND CRAFS

COLOURS

1.- What is the difference between value and a hue's pure value?

- Value: describes the lightness or darkness of a colour.

- Hue: is the name for each pure colour found in the colour spectrum.

2.- Write a definition of primary and secondary colours. List each and describe how we obtain them.

- Primary colours: There are the colours that do not come from a mix of colours but all others colours come from them.

- Secondary colours: We obtain these colours by mixing the same of two primary colours.

3.- What are the warm colours? Why are they called like this?

Convey a sensation of warmth.

4.- Give one example of how we can contrast colours in a composition.

- The sensation of size: A colour can make a form seem bigger or smaller.

- The sensation of distance: A colour can appear close or further away.

- The sensation of weight: A colour can make a form seem heavier or lighter in weight.

5.- Choose a work of art from the links and analyse the meaning of its colours.

This is the bedroom of Van Gogh. It is painted with hue colours.

6.- Look for Claude Monet's "Notre Dame Cathedral" and Henri Matisse's "Sorrow of the king" 1952. In one of the paintings there is analogy of colours and in the other one, there is contrast. Explain what you find in each one.

- Notre Dame Cathedral is painted with value colours.

- Sorrow of the king is painted with hue colours.