After reading about Michael Eugene Chevreul, I now know where the colour wheel came from as I had never heard his name before, and never knew that someone had created a colour wheel with a whole theory behind it. As I read on further about him, he was a director at Gobelin’s Factory where there were complaints about the black yarns when placed next to the blue due to surrounding colours which led to the term simultaneous contrast.
In the world of art, this concept of merging colours together perhaps influenced impressionist artists such as Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Georges Seurat and especially Henri- Edmond Scott. With the concept of gently layering two different colours together with blending, these men could create a softer gradient to create form or shadow in a painting, and could also produce different shades of a colour by decreasing the use of a certain colour or adding more onto the brush. These men didn’t have to use any harsh, dark shades of colour as they were able to build layers of colours up and produce the darker tones with the effect of dabbing the paint onto the canvas rather than smudging a blunt colour into the composition, and therefore achieved more gentle depth and texture to the pieces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross
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