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Art @ Home: Color Theory Challenge

… reflected back to the eye. Artists use color to express feelings and emotions, create a mood, or show something as it looks in peoples’ lives.
We can trace color being used in art to the earliest cave paintings, but one of the first times we began to think of color in an organized way was …

Banner Image: Sanford Robinson Gifford, A Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1864, Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in., The Lunder Collection, 2013.130
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