The Color Star

by Johannes Itten

Consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this useful and innovative tool helps designers explore a myriad of harmonious color.

Genres: Art

1 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliche Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the finest color wheels around

I would recommend any oil painter to have three of them so you can experiment with comparison

It's like your own Rothko Circular Slide Rule