Johannes Itten's color contrast

Johannes Itten was one of the first people to study and identify strategies to achieve successful colour combinations. He was a swiss expressionist painter, designer, theorist, writer and teacher. From this research he concluded with seven main methodologies for combining colour for maximum affect. These range from saturation, to light and dark hues to complimentary colours. He produced these findings in a book known as "The theory of colours".

This is a shot from the incredibles showing a limited pallete of colour. Focused to mainly red and black then the bright explosion behind them stands out from the rest.
These were:

• The pure color(hue) contrast 
• The contrast of saturation
• The contrast of light and dark
• The contrast of compliments
• The contrast of warm and cool
• The contrast of quantity
• Simultaneous contrast