Color Schemes - CLASH
This color scheme has an energetic, raw, and brash quality. It is used primarily in advertisement and graphic design, but modern artists use it to create uninhibited energy to their compositions.
It is easy to create this scheme. Combine a color with one hue
on either side of its complementary. Here are some examples in
groups of two:
Some of these schemes were used with the following compositions. Observe how sometimes the artist used two sets of clash schemes in the same painting.
Exposition Vallauris 1956
Collection of André Verdet.
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