Color_Vocabulary

Feel blue: to feel sad White lie: something that's not true but causes no harm The green light: the ok to start something Red tape: complicated official procedures and forms In the black: having money Green of envy: jealous of someone else's good fortune Be in the red: owing money The red carpet: special honours for an important person In black and white: very clear and easy to understand Out of the blue: by surprise Black market: the market not controled by the government

Color: effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object. Color wheel: shows the primary and secundary colours and the way they relate to each other Value: it refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Tint: color mixed with white Shade: color mixed with black Analogous colors: those colors that are placed next to each other in the color wheel

As an example of color in architecture I choosed "Casa Batlló", a design from Antonio Gaudí == media type="custom" key="20237274" The facade of this house outstands in this street of barcelona because of its multicolor ceramic and the way light creates tints and shades on it==

==In the inside of the house, the brown tone of the wood creates a cozy atmosphere while the multicolor glass makes it joyful!== media type="custom" key="20237512"

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==On other side, the inside courtyard has a peacefull climate thanks to the blue that Gaudí wore on the walls that by the way has an interesting effect with the light: the upper the ceramic is, the darker is the color, so when you look up being inside of the courtyard the reflection of the sunlight makes the color seem almost uniformed!==