In 1704 Issac Newton was the man who brought attention and the understanding to colour. He did this by reflecting a beam of sunlight through a prism which created the colour spectrum. These colours were put back into another prism turning it back into white light. This experiment led to great discovery's about colour and the colour theory.
You could say Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was on the curved side of the spectrum in regards to colour and the colour theory. Goethe did not care for the mathematical perception that Newton had on colour but more the human perception. This is expressed through his quote "Newtons error…was trusting math over the sensations of his eye.” Goeth believed the sensations on the eyes was much more important then mathematical explanations. Artists saw painting as an opportunity to manipulate colour. In the 20th century the post impressionism was born. Artists started to use the own perception of light for example Vincent Van Gogh .He painted a very famous painting called starry night which was his on perception of a night sky, using swirling colours of violet haze.
Through out the course of history experiments on colour ,both scientific and artistic, has given us great understanding. Over time our understandings have developed our vision of colour so that we can contemplate and understand both sides of colour.
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