A Strange New World: The Art of Ólafur Eliasson
Fig. 1, Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, 2003. Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern (London). (Image Source: David Firn, Flickr Commons)...
The Dark Spectrum II : Bands of Color
This is a sequel to my previous post, “The Dark Spectrum I: Goethe and the Imaginative Interrogation of Color,” . In that post, I...
The Dark Spectrum I: Goethe and the imaginative interrogation of color
Though often dismissed as misguided and ill-informed, in terms of its scientific understanding of the physics of light, Johann Wolfgang von
Do You Dream In Color?
The question “Do you dream in color?” is one that most of us have probably been asked, or have considered at some point. If so, what...
All The Colors We Cannot See: Tetrachromacy in Humans
One million colors, that is the approximate number the typical human eye can see [1]. This is due primarily to the fact that our eyes...
The Seurat Delusion: When theory overrides experience
In the history of painting, the work of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) stands out as being a unique synthesis of both science and art, as...