Especially talking about the colour spectrum? Photons of most other colours are of higher energy! Red can't be superior!This reminds me I actually held a presentation on the color red in my arts class. (We all did presentations on different colors).
Paintings with the colour red in them sell quicker and for more money than other paintings.
White is the best color because it's all colors combined!
God, I miss having access to a huge studio like I did in school. Some of my smallest paintings were 24"x36". Average was around 40x60.
Didn't that have to do with the relative scarcity of the colours in question? Usually when a colour is rare and expensive, royalty will want to be seen in it.
Yellow is a nice color. Orange is the bane of existence.You'd hate my room.
Humans associate short-wavelength light (red, orange) with 'warm' colours and long-wavelength light (blue, violet) with 'cold' colours.
We're hardwired to prefer warmth, which is why humans like red so much.
Pop quiz: The human eye is twice as sensitive to green as it is to red and violet. Also, plants are almost always green. Are these two things related?
Red/green colorblindness is the most common colorblindness. Obviously that makes those colors inferior!
Minor quibble: I think it's the other way around (redder = longer wavelength)Derp, yeah, I always get those mixed up.
Another possibility is that we grow to like colours that we subconsciously associate with nice things :o red is also the colour of danger and sweet blushes. Or angry ones :oI think the ubiquity of the red effect points to nature rather than nurture. Also, red is only the colour of danger because humans decided that it should be so. Why did they? Because humans are already sensitive to red.
They may be, indirectly. The sun's peak energy output lies around the greenish wavelengths, so being extra sensitive to greenish photons will make life a little easier for animals who see (and being less sensitive ie. reflecting green photons will make life easier for plants who want to avoid sunburn :o). Sensitivity to green and red may also have been especially advantageous in our ancestral environments, whether we're talking about forests or the savannah.Good guess, but like Loki, I think the answer is no. The second factor related to vision is the absorption spectrum of water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Absorption_spectrum_of_liquid_water.png). Animal vision takes advantage of the fact that wavelengths between 300 and 700 nm are the least absorbed by water. Green light, 500 nm, is able to pass through water the easiest! Since life evolved in the water, animals would have to have the ability to see through water first and foremost, which I think explains why our vision (and that of all animals) is centered around green light. We're out of the water now, but light still has to pass through our eyes, which are of course mostly water.
Wouldn't that by default also make both black and white evil as well?
...so is Pink the anti-red? it's a red color but is associated with girls, femininity, flowers, and other things thought to be weaker...
The fact that people consider pink to be a tint of red when it is just as close to being a tint of violet further emphasises how sensitive we are to red.
I think that depends on whether you're mixing pigments, or light.
My tutors have told me to start painting 4x5 and 5x6 feet, which is kind of terrifying. I've never made anything that big before, but I think they're right. I should definitely do it while i have the chance.
Not sure I'll use a lot of red though, I subconsciously steer away from that colour for some reason.
The fact that people consider pink to be a tint of red when it is just as close to being a tint of violet further emphasises how sensitive we are to red.
One, it depends on the hue, and two, it depends on pigment vs. light and I'm pretty much always talking about pigment. I think you're talking more about the color magenta and less about baby pink (which is what I thought we were talking about?), which is a straight tint of red (usually crimson).True; I was mainly thinking of the definition of pink as light without green in it, which is indeed magenta. So I'm wrong about the perception of pink, but that does make me wonder why colour mixing works with RGB when blue isn't at the end of the spectrum. Two waves of light hitting your retina, one of 700 nm and the other of 450 nm, have the same effect as one wave of light of 400 nm. Why?
(http://www.okokchina.com/Files/uppic43/ladies%20Evening%20Dress02600.jpg)
Every girl needs a Little Red Dress.
but that does make me wonder why colour mixing works with RGB when blue isn't at the end of the spectrum. Two waves of light hitting your retina, one of 700 nm and the other of 450 nm, have the same effect as one wave of light of 400 nm. Why?
Honestly, when I think of "pink" I think of light purple. I know that's not technically accurate, but meh.
True; I was mainly thinking of the definition of pink as light without green in it, which is indeed magenta. So I'm wrong about the perception of pink, but that does make me wonder why colour mixing works with RGB when blue isn't at the end of the spectrum. Two waves of light hitting your retina, one of 700 nm and the other of 450 nm, have the same effect as one wave of light of 400 nm. Why?Guesswork: because perception of color isn't evenly distributed, as was said upthread. (I actually knew this because I recently researched how to recognize "dark" backgrounds vs "light" backgrounds on e.g. a webpage and adjust the font color brightness accordingly for easier reading. For anyone interested in that problem, see here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855884/determine-font-color-based-on-background-color))
My tutors have told me to start painting 4x5 and 5x6 feet, which is kind of terrifying. I've never made anything that big before, but I think they're right. I should definitely do it while i have the chance.
Not sure I'll use a lot of red though, I subconsciously steer away from that colour for some reason.
I generally do too. Pink is fair game but red is used sparingly. Like Linds, I'm partial to blue-greens. Unlike Linds, I also enjoy orange :-P
I know they tell us to avoid it like the plague in art school but I love me a thick and juicy black outline.
So...lavender?No, just really light purple.
My tutors never told me to avoid red, but I guess they probably didn't do it because I never used it much in the first place. I've never gotten told off for using black outlines either, but I did get told off for being lazy and using black out of the tube. They want us to mix our own blacks (using viridian green and alizarin crimson) which I can totally understand since the pre-mixed one is really dull in comparison.
Why are reds considered warmer than blues when an object has to be hotter to produce noticeable amounts of blue light that is has to be for red?How is that relevant when objects that are hot enough to glow have never existed together with humans in our evolutionary history? Well, except for the sun, but sunlight has never changed.
objects that are hot enough to glow have never existed together with humans in our evolutionary history?
I daresay that humans' ability to see colours will have evolved hundreds of thousands of years before fire was discovered. You could argue that the association between colour and temperature was only developed afterwards, but that raises the question of why we have evolved colour vision in the first place.objects that are hot enough to glow have never existed together with humans in our evolutionary history?
In the days before humanity evolved central heating, there was this thing called a "fire" which contained glowing objects - and they were never blue.
That's what I meant up there.
How easy our lives would be if the human brain perceived things in a scientifically accurate way.
So...lavender?No, just really light purple.