Color Spectrum in Pop Art

Probably most of us believe that color theory (as well as all other theories in general) is a bit boring. However, it’s true that even the best guidebook can’t help you to turn your photo to pop art painting if you don’t know the basics. You’ll always feel insecure while choosing the colors for your own pop art portrait. You need to know the basic rules in order to match the colors of the pop art painting. Further in this article we’ll provide you with some basic information about colors and will try not to get you bored with the theory.
What is color? In order to actually see something we need light. The light from the sun is called ”white light”, how odd it sounds the fact that the white light actually contains all the colors we see around us. This can be easily observed in the summer after a rain when a rainbow appears in the sky. Isaac Newton (English mathematician, 1963-1727), in 1667 discovered that “white light” can be easily decompiled by using a prism in to various groups of color waves.
All colored objects, actually all objects around us contain pigments that have ability to absorb or to reflect certain color waves. We can only see the waves that are reflected; therefore the pigment in a red apple reflects only red color waves and absorbs all other. Most of us describe colors very subjectively and incorrectly. There is “sky blue”, grass green” or “fire red”, for me actually the sky is a much more different blue than for my friend, and the grass is differently green than as my neighbor sees. This incorrect color description doesn’t makes any difficulties when we are telling a story, but when we are creating a photo art, we need to be more precise. For this reason the logic system of colors is created. Herman fon Helmholc in 1866 discovered that all colors have three mutual elements, tone, shade and intensity.
These three elements are still valid today, in the mean time colors are very precisely determined, Firstly we have colors in different tones, Special value is added to red, yellow and blue color, these colors cannot be produced by mixing other colors, and that’s why there are named as primary colors, which are most often used in Warhol pop art portraits. By various combinations of the primary colors along with white or black all possible colors can be produced, for example by adding more black pastel colors are produced, while by adding white color while painting a pop art painting we’ll produce more vibrant colors. By mixing the yellow and blue, green is produced, form blue and red, pink, orange from yellow and red etc…
Colors that are found in the color spectrum are called complimentary colors, these colors are commonly used when artist turn a photo into pop art.