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Color Charts Through History
// Gurney Journey
For centuries artists have explored ways to map the universe of color. Each kind of chart reflects a different conception of color. Here are a few examples, from a selection by The Public Domain Review
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| "A chart from 1746 by Jacques-Fabien Gautier illustrating his theory that the primary colours are black and white, with red, yellow, and blue being secondary. Colours were thought to be drawn out of the shadows by the presence of light – Source." |
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| "Philipp Otto Runge's Farbenkugel (1810). The top two images show the surface of the sphere, while the bottom two show horizontal and vertical cross sections –Source." |
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| "Johann Heinrich Lambert's three-dimensional adaptation of Tobias Mayer's triangle, featured in his Beschreibung einer mit dem Calauschen Wachse ausgemalten Farbenpyramide (1772) – Source." |
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| "Page from Priced catalogue of artists' materials : supplies for oil painting, water color painting, china painting … and drawing materials for architects and engineers, manual training schools and colleges (1914) – Source." |
More about color systems in my book: Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
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