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Color Theory for the Visual Arts

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X403 (2 semester units in Art)

A requirement in the Specialized Program in Painting; an elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Arts

Strengthen your use of color by understanding how colors interact. This foundation course for basic painting includes lectures and projects on perception and color intensity, the value scale and simultaneous contrast, the effects and physics of color, and theories on color psychology.

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