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Color 6 - The hard color by Johannes Itten Color

Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967) painter, designer and writer who was part of the Swiss school of the Bauhaus.
His best known work, The Art of Color, is a real guide for anyone working with the world of colors and their combinations.
The text is rich in illustrative tables represents the colors and their various combinations (colors hot / cold, the various gradations of color, complementary colors, etc.).
Having obtained the seven colors from the breakdown of white light in a circular shape in this way we get a hard color. "

The colors are employed irreversible and follow each other in the order of the rainbow and the spectrum.
Those inside the central triangle (yellow / blue / red) are the primary colors, primary colors make other colors associated with each such secondary (those that form the hexagon). All colors that are within the circle of the twelve sections are the sum of all other colors and are on the opposite side of the diameter (eg red and green) are called complementary colors, ie those which have the greatest contrast between them.

The main work of Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967) The Art of Color is the so-called chromatic disc. In this disc in the center are the three primary colors: red, blue and yellow. The triangles that form the sides of the central triangle, containing the primary colors. The triangles, which form the sides of the hexagon, contain secondary colors, orange, purple and green derived from the union of the primaries.

In the outer circle are 12 sectors in which they placed the primary colors, secondary, according to the colors.

Complementary colors are those in which the contrast (light-dark hot-cold) is the opposite.

Complementary colors are opposites then (green-red, purple, yellow, orange and blue).