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When we focus our eyes on a uniformly colored area of a painting, the color that we perceive is often influenced by the colors of surrounding areas. In the preceding chapter, it was mentioned that this psychological phenomenon is called simultaneous contrast. Artists and designers deal with it in striving for specific color effects.
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Agoston, G.A. (1987). Perceived Colors. In: Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34734-7_3
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