Colour: Arts, Science and Nature
Colour: Arts, Science and Nature
Colour as studied by artists and scientists.
What is a colour? Where does it come from and what does it mean? The exhibition explores colour from three angles: science, nature and the arts.
Panel by panel:
- Light and the spectrum: the discoveries of Newton and Young
- How the eye perceives colours, and colour blindness
- Additive and subtractive synthesis, from screen to printing press
- Light, incandescence and luminescence
- Colours of living things: camouflage, mimicry, warning signals, courtship
- Symbols and traditions: flags, festivals, costumes of the world
- Colour in painters and writers, from Arcimboldo to Kandinsky
Audience: all ages, from 8. Ideal for: a cross-curricular art and science project, a science festival, a children's exhibition.
14 panels - Available for sale and hire.
Preview of the panels
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