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cool colors. Colors suggesting coolness: blue, green, and violet.
curvature. The act of curving or bending. One of the characteristics of line.
curvilinear. Formed or enclosed by curved lines.

 


Cool colors
Color often associated with water, sky, spring, and foliage, and suggest coolness. These are the colors which contain blue and green and appear on one side of the color wheel opposite the warm colors.

cool colors - In color theory, colors are described as either warm, cool, or neutral. A cool color generally is one which contains a large amount of blue, as opposed to a warm color, which will contain more yellow.

cool colors: a color group associated with blue that includes blue-green, blue-violet, green, yellow-green, and violet. Cool colors appear to recede in space and have a general psychological association with coolness.
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cool colors Colors whose relative visual temperature makes them seem cool. Cool colors generally include green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, and violet.

COOL COLORS
Those that suggest a sense of coolness. Blue , Green , Violet
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cool colors Colors whose relative visual temperatures make them seem cool. Cool colors generally include green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, and violet. The quality of warmness or coolness is relative to adjacent hues. See also warm colors.

cool colors - colors that make you feel cool - blue, green, violet
hue - colors found on a color wheel
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Cool colors
Colors that suggest a cool, soothing feeling or mood. Cool colors are blues, some greens, and some violets. Cool colors appear to recede spatially in artwork.

cool colors - Colors are often described as having temperature - as warm (reds, oranges, and yellows) or cool (greens, blues, and violets). Purple (red-violet) and yellow-green are between warm and cool.

Neoclassical paintings have sharp outlines, reserved emotions, deliberate (often mathematical) composition, and cool colors. 2.

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Also see chroma key, contrast key, cool colors, tonal key, warm colors, and temperature key.

There is a deliberate serenity to his paintings, by presenting the viewer with cool colors, his work captivates. In composition he is at his best with landscapes. In groups the separate figures are always in harmonious unity.

You can have warm colors reflected in cool shadows and cool colors reflected in warm highlights. And because she sees the shadows as dark areas with many colors reflected in them, she never uses a neutral black.

Warm Colors
In color theory, warm colors are those that contain a large amount of yellow, as opposed to cool colors, which contain more blue.

Families of analogous colors include the warm colors (red, orange and yellow) and the cool colors (green, blue and violet). Analogous colors are sometimes referred to as adjacent colors. Return to top ...

For example, blue, blue-green, and green all have the color blue in common. Families of analogous colors include the warm colors (red, orange and yellow) and the cool colors (green, blue and violet).

- "New" classicism - a style in 19th century Western art that referred back to the classical styles of Greece and Rome. Neoclassical paintings have sharp outlines, reserved emotions,deliberate (often mathematical) composition, and cool colors.

Initially influenced by French Barbizon painting by way of American exponents George Inness (1825-1894), William Morris Hunt (1824-1879), American tonalist painters tended to use a neutral palette of predominantly cool colors: green, blue, mauve, ...

Neutral-complementary colors mixed to produce a dull, subdued color (variations of gray); the non-colors of black and white.
Receding-cool colors which we generally perceive to be moving away in a field of color ...

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