Volume : I, Issue : XI, August - 2012

The story of colour

Kashyap Parikh

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It is strange that artists have used colour for 25,000 years without knowing much about it. But the simple fact that colour cannot be seen without light cannot have escaped early man. The cave artist used torches to get the necessary light to paint. The first word designations for colour were undoubtedly those for darkness and light. In those years various scientists such as Alcmaeon, Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, Mauroycus, and Dominis and others, Sir Isaac Newton in the latter half of the 17th century contributed to develop different theories. But till date precisely how colour is perceived is not known and new theories are advanced from time to time. Whether there are one, two, three, or seven kinds of receptors has not been firmly established.

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Kashyap Parikh The story of colour Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.XI August 2012

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