Josef Albers – He was a German-born American artist and educatorAlbers’s 1963 book Interaction of Color provided the most comprehensive analysis of the function and perception of color to date and profoundly influenced art education and artistic practice, especially Color Field Painting and Minimalism, in the twentieth century.
Johannes Itten – Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus. He defined 7 strategies for color combinations: contrast of saturation, light and dark, extension, complements, hue, primaries, warm and cool.
Albert Henry Munsell – He was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. Munsell’s work in developing a systematic approach to teaching and communicating was influential in evolving color science theory at the turn of the century and served as the basis for today’s color matching technology.
