assignment colour mixing

Johannes Itten was born in Südern-Lindern in the Bern Oberland in 1888. His father was a primery school teacher Johannes did that too but not for a long time he went to Geneva École des Beaux-Arts in Genf before taking a diploma to teach the secondary school. He thought he would be happier if he became a painter. But in 1919 he was invited to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1932 he was still teaching at the Bauhaus until 1938 because than he emigrated to Holland. After that he became director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zurich. He retired in 1955. Johannes Itten died on the 25th of March in the year 1967.


Itten's colour theory



Johannes Itten had a colour theory at which you only need three colours to make every other colour those colours ar red yellow and blue those are called the primary colours. When you mix the primary colours you get secondary colours so when you mic red and yellow you get orange, red and blue violet and blue and yellow you get green so orange, violet and green are the secondary colours. You can also add tint and shade to the colours with white and black to make it lighter of darker. Tertiary colours are formed when you mix a primary colour with a secondary colour like blue+violet= blue violet all the tertiary colours are yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue violet, blue-green and yellow-green. And then the Complementary colours are the opposite on the colour wheel like red and green, yellow and violet and blue an orange.