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Andy Warhol

Within what art genre did Warhol work?

Pop art

Define the genre?
an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reachedits peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography inAmerican life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products,and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.

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During what years was he alive?

1928-1927

Post 2 samples of his art. Answer the following questions for each piece.

Campbell's Soup

He uses read, whites, and golds.

He does not use and particular color scheme.

This piece of work looks very old fashioned and straight to the point.

Marilyn Monroe

He used the bright yellow color for the hair different blues. He could have used the split complementary color scheme, or the triadic color scheme.

This work is well know, and it is very bright and outspoken.

Title of the piece?

Describe the color that he utilizes. Does he use any particular color scheme?

What do you notice about the artwork itself?

Color Schemes

  
Triadic color scheme
 
Analogous color scheme

Monochromatic color scheme

Warm colors

Split complementary color scheme 

Review Week 9

Compare and contrast vector graphics and pixel images.Pixel images are broken into small squares that together make an image. Vector graphics are lines, curves, and shapes that together make a picture. they both create an image.

What resolution is necessary to print raster images?
300 DPI

What resolution is necessary to display raster images on the internet?




72 DPI

"Steve Jobs"

Who is Steve Jobs?
Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

What company was he CEO for many years?
Apple

What did he do for the computer industry?
He helped invent new and improved technology that everyone could use for many different things.

How did this man impact the graphic design industry?

He invented new things that could be used throughout the industry to accomplish the work

Review Week 8

Why must designers pay close attention to how color is utilized within a composition?
It impacts all visual communications

Why is the color wheel an important tool for graphic designers?

It shows the relationships between different colors

Find an example of neutral colors utilized within a design (hint: google poster design). Near the sample, discuss why you feel the designer included neutral colors within the composition.

The neutral colors are used to show relaxation.

Briefly describe how we "see" the color of an object?

We can see them when they absorb and reflect the colors of the visible light spectrum

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The right use of color can do what? 

-maximize productivity

-minimize visual fatigue

relax the body

Within the electromagnetic spectrum, which waves allow us to see color?
-Visible light

Describe white light?
-Equal part of all colors in a visible spectrum

How do we see color if objects "have no color of their own"?
-They are in color when the absorb or reflect the colors in the visible light specrum

What is a glass prism?
-Transparent triangular object that breaks white light into all the colors of the visible light spectrum

What seven colors result when white light is refracted through a prism?
-Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet

Describe hue?
-each different hue is a different reflected wavelength

When does white light occur?
-All wavelengths are reflected back to your eye

When does black light occur?
-no light is reflected to your eye

How color is perceived depends on what?
-Depends on the type of light it is seen with

What is a color wheel?
-Visual tool that shows the relationship between primary and secondary tertiary colors

What are primary colors? Name them? 

-Base of all colors

-Red, yellow, and blue

What are secondary colors? Name them?
-2 primary colors are mixed together

-Orange, green, and violet

What are tertiary colors? Name them? 

-When a primary and secondary colors are mixed

- Red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet

What are neutral colors? How can they be created? 

-Colors of very low saturation

-Blacks, grays, whites and browns

How can a neutral color help a design?

-Help put the focus on the other colors or serve to tone down overpowering colors

What are complementary colors? Name them? 

-Positioned opposite of each other on the color wheel

-Red and green; Orange and blue; Yellow and violet

What is color value?
-Lightness or darkness of a hue or color

What is a shade?
-Adding black to a hue that produces a low value color

What is a tint?
-Adding white to a hue produces a high-value color

What is saturation/intensity?
-Brightness of a color

What happens when you mix complementary colors together?
-Changes the intensity or tone

Describe color harmony?
-a pleasing arrangement of parts

What is a color scheme?
-Used to create style and appeal to the eye

Describe a monochromatic color scheme? 

-Uses tints and shades of one color

Describe an analogous color scheme?
-Uses 3 colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel

Describe a complementary color scheme?
-2 colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel

Describe a split-complementary color scheme?
-Uses 3 colors 2 adjacent to its compliment

Describe a triadic color scheme?
-3 colors equally spaced around the color wheel

What colors are considered to be warm colors?
-Yellows oranges and reds

Describe a warm color scheme?
-Bold and energetic

What colors are considered to be cool colors?
-Greens, blues, and violets

Describe a cool color scheme?
-Gives and impression if calm and rarely overpowers the message of a design

Why is important to consider which colors are being used within a design?

-It impacts all visual communications