Color star

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A color star is the visualization of the ratio of the basic colors ( primary colors ) to the mixed colors ( secondary colors ) in the form of a star, with the complementary color opposite in each corner .

Example of a six-part color star

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, Adolf Hölzel created a color wheel based on the theory of harmony in music. He named seven opposites in relation to color: light and dark, cold and warm, complementary, luminous and matt, quantity, intensity, colorful and neutral. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe created a color wheel beforehand . Isaac Newton was the first to create a circular arrangement of colors. Well-known painters of the modern age who developed their own color theories were u. a. Wassily Kandinsky , Johannes Itten and Paul Klee . All three worked as teachers at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

In 1921 Itten published his color star . This color star was based on the color ball from Philipp Otto Runge and the color system from Goethe. Itten folded Runge's color ball into the surface. The basic and mixed colors develop from pure white in the center to pure black on the edge. On the middle of seven levels, the pure colors are shown. The opposite segments are each complementary color .

literature

  • Basic colors and color mixing. In: Thomas Walter: MediaFotografie - analogue and digital. Terms, techniques, web. Springer-Verlag, 2006, p. 162. ISBN 978-3-540-27371-4 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • The six-part color star. In: Jost J. Marchesi: Photo Collegium 6. Color Printing & Color Management in Digital Photography. Verlag Photographie, 2012, p. 35. ISBN 978-3-943-12559-7 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Monika Holfeld: Light and color: planning and execution in building design. German Institute for Standardization eV, Beuth, Berlin et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-410-20655-2 , chap. 1.2: Historical development of the color star , pp. 19–24; limited preview in Google Book search
  • Martin Hahn: Color systems . In: web design. The Web Design Guide . Galileo Design, 2015, p. 368-371 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vroni Enzler-Engler: From the fascination of color . In: St. Galler Tagblatt . March 22, 2016, p. 30 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Sabine Schimma: The eccentric color yellow . In: The world . Issue 167, July 19, 2009, p. 10 ( online ).

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