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Color Harmony


Plate2A.The Bauhaus Exercise	2B. Color Harmony	2C. Analogous Color Harmony

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Harmony or a sense of rhythmic relationship can be defined as a pleasing arrangement of parts- it is applied in color, music, poetry, dance, choreography, etc. Harmony is part of our life that encompasses in everything that we do. Every human gesture involves some degree of harmony and rhythm. Color plays important role in visual harmony that surrounds us. Ultimately harmony and rhythm experience translates into aesthetic appreciation. It involves the viewer and it creates an inner sense of order, a balance through visual experience. Harmony is opposite to visual disorder. The above examples of 2D works illustrate the color harmony through combination of hues that create balance and rhythmic composition among multiple colors.

Harmony can be experienced with the help of visual sensory or through audio sensory. The rational arrangements of various components create an orderly composition. Human brains require mental stimulation. Under-stimulation or over-stimulation both is undesirable for the brain. The visual task requires that we present a logical structure. Color harmony delivers visual interest and a sense of order. Color harmony is created with the help of contemporary and analogous color. Nature has played important role in helping to create color harmony as well.

Extreme unity leads to under-stimulation
Extreme complexity leads to over stimulations

Harmony, expresses dynamic gesture and qualitative activity that embodies a dynamic equilibrium. Interestingly nature departs from the color harmony. Nature is not programmed to create harmony consciously.

Description of color scheme in art (painter's palette) must account for all three properties- hue, value and intensity.