Science through Art

Docent Guide 1.10.20

Routes

Training Video 9.2.19

Resources

• Reinventing the Wheel: Why Red is not a Primary

• Modern Color Theory

• Causes of color Great website about color. Read the sections on rainbows, eye and mind, color theory. There are multiple pages for each.

• Color and light

• Chevreul and Color theory fundamental "law" of the simultaneous contrast of colors

• Printing process for Ben-Day dots (thorough, if somewhat meandering explanation)

• CMYK (also thorough but meandering)

• Benham's Disk

• Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art under the Spell of the Projected Image (an in depth look at the subject)

• Camera Obscura (Wikipedia)

• The Chemistry of Color (video)