Painting I / Contrast, Harmony and Simultaneous Contrast
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Simultaneous contrast reveals that colour is relational rather than absolute. What follows from this principle for a designer attempting to establish colour harmony across a composition?

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  1. Does a pigment's physical constancy guarantee its visual constancy in an ensemble?
  2. What happens to our perception of a single tone when its surrounding ground is altered?
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A. Every hue must be adjusted according to its adjacent neighbours

Why

Treating colours as isolated values fails because local context actively modifies perception. Confusing spatial interaction with additive mixing or assuming value is immune to neighbouring tones overlooks the physiological nature of simultaneous contrast.

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