Color StudiesMid-term Exam

1. Is color an abstraction/idea, or is it an actual sensory event?

2. The beginning of every color experience is a physiological response to a stimulus of ___________.

3. As you look at your computer screen, are you looking at an example of direct of reflected light?

4. Name the three attributes of color:

5. What does the word “achromatic” mean?

6. What are complementary colors?

7. What are analogous colors?

8. What are tertiary colors?

9. What is the difference between a tint and a shade?

10. In the example above, which color is figure and which color is ground?

11. What type of ground subtraction ishappening here:

hue or value?

12. What type of ground subtraction ishappening here:

hue or value?

13. Which of these two grounds will make this chromatic gray appear more orange?

A. B.

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14. Which of these two grounds will make thegreen appear darker in value?

A. B.

15. Which of these two grounds will make thechromatic gray appear to be more saturated?

A. B.

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16. What are all of the colors between the orange

and blue called?

17. Assign names to the different saturationsusing these terms:

chromatic gray, prismatic, achromatic gray, muted.

A. A.B. B.C. C.D.

18. Which of the above color schemes is prismatic?

A. B.

19. Would you call the above compositionchromatic or achromatic gray?

20. If you wanted to make this violet appear both darker and bluer, which of the above grounds would you pair it with?

A. B. C.