Color Interaction Studies

“In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” -Josef Albers (Hornung, David — Color (2012))

The human brain depend on context to perceive any visual stimulation that is perhaps the most common trick played in innumerable visual illusions.

It is important to learn how color interacts when combined with other colors and shapes so that they can be used in the best way possible.

Owing to the existence of color vision, a single color can tend to shift.
in color, value, or saturation as presented in a number of contexts.

The same color can be made to look like two different shades, and two different colors can be made to look the same, merely by putting them in different contexts. The explanation is that two colors, side by side, communicate with each other and change our experience accordingly. True colors don’t change, just our understanding of them varies.

Reference:

Hornung, David — Color _ a workshop for artists and designers-Laurence King Publishing (2012)