Intense colors can evoke high emotion in a work of art, contributing liveliness or boldness. They can also create an artificial gaudiness that screams for attention.

Colors found on the color wheel are used directly, with little or no mixing of the pure colors with colors found on the opposite side of the color wheel, and with little or no mixing with black, gray, or brown.

Featured: Fragment 2 for Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky.