The Elements of Color

Itten, J. (1970). The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color. John Wiley & Sons.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1970

ISBN

9780471289296

Link

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=The+Elements+of+Color+Itten

Cited from

art_aesthetics, cognitive_science

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Color Harmony
  • The creation of visual unity through color repetition, variation, and harmonic intervals

    This sourceCondensation of The Art of Color covering the color circle, the seven color contrasts, harmony, form, and composition; supports the structural-signature claim about visual unity through harmonic relationships and intervals.

• Emphasis (Focal Point)
  • The creation of visual contrast (color, size, position, sharpness, isolation, texture, movement) distinguishing focal elements from background

    This sourceCondensation of Itten's The Art of Color; examines the seven color contrasts (hue, light-dark, cold-warm, complementary, simultaneous, saturation, extension) as means of distinguishing elements from their surroundings — supports creation of visual contrast (color, etc.) at the focal element (D36-078). [Renamed from 'itten-1975': the canonical Wiley edition of this title is 1970, and the prior key name conflated it with Itten's separate 'Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus' (1975).]

• Figure-Ground

  • This sourceCondensation of Itten's color theory. Bibliography-only (never cited in the body of this prime); listed twice in References. NOTE: standard publication year is 1970, not 1975 as printed.

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• https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elements_of_Color/ofvRhNBgoCoC ×1

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