Article: Color and Ingredients
I found several interesting articles today from Wired.com about color and ingredients of paint. Did you know that glossy magazines can be slightly radioactive?
Neil Harbisson was never a fan of Mark Rothko. Or any abstract artist for that matter. Harbisson’s extreme color blindness – a congenital condition called achromatopsia – dulled even great works based on shape and tone rather than pictoral image.But now his life – and his art – have been transformed by a device called the Eyeborg, which enables him to perceive color by sound, and to – quite literally – “compose” paintings (see his self-portrait, right, and others here). Read the article…
When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain. As adults, colors are processed in the brain’s language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them. Read the article…
Water
Paleolithic cave dwellers mixed clay pigments with spit and urine to create the first paint. The basic tech hasn’t changed — we still mix pigments with a liquid binder. Of course, these days most of us slap the stuff on in a uniform coat rather than hand-draw bison on the walls of our three-bedroom colonials. Read the article…
March 12 2008 09:45 am | articles and things of interest