Explore some sites
• Vandelay Design (Links to an external site.): In this site, you will explore the use of color in web design.
• Incredible Art “Color Symbolism and Culture” (Links to an external site.): Explores the symbolic nature of color.
• In the image, are the two brown squares actually two different hues? Click on the image to see an animation that will show the concept of simultaneous contrast visually. Try to understand how the two squares appear different at first.
Format for Delivery: Now that you have thoroughly read the text (Art Fundamentals 12th edition) and explored the web sites above, answer the following questions in your discussion thread:
1. Discuss why you would choose certain hues (colors) when designing a website.
2. There is much symbolism in color, what did you find that related to you from the Incredible Art site?
3. After looking at the Simultaneous Contrast animation, explain how the two hues actually appear different at the beginning.
4. In the textbook in the chapter on color, there is a painting by Emil Nolde, The Last Supper, 1909. How has the artist used color? If this painting was achromatic, would the values of the hues be successful?
