Question 1
- Define colour.
- State any two functions of colour.
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Describe any three of the following terms:
- cool colours
- analogous colours
- colour intensity
- hue.
Observation
Candidates’ performance was good. The question was attempted by most of the candidates.
They were expected to respond to the question thus:
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- Colour is the waves of light separated by different things before reaching our eyes.
- It is the decomposition of white light which is composed of seven colours.
- A kind of pigment applied to a surface, shape and designs to make it more appealing to the sense.
- Tints and shades which are put together to represent various scenes in nature.
- It is a fascinating element of design.
- To the artist, colour is a pigment.
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- Colour is used for decoration.
- Colour is used for identification.
- Colour is used for indication.
- It is a material used in designing.
- Colour is used for symbolism.
- Colour is used for therapy.
Colour is used for mood/visual communication.
- Cool colours
- Colours that have psychological cooling effect.
- Optically, they tend to recede into the distance.
- They are blue, green and purple.
- Colours with blue in them.
- Colours which appear opposite to warm colours on the colour wheel.
- Analogous colours
- Colours that are closely related.
- Colours that lie side by side on the colour wheel.
- Colours that have common basic colours.
- Examples are blue, violet and green/orange, yellow and green.
- Colour intensity
- The purity of a colour.
- It is the brilliancy of a colour.
- Free of contaminations by other colours.
- Free from neutral element.
- Examples are primary colours in their pure state.
Another name for intensity is chroma. - Hue
- It is the identity of any colour.
- The actual colour.
- It is another name for colour.
- It is the quality which distinguishes one colour from another.