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Color Perceived and Color Named

Jarosław Janowski
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.1

Abstract

In the history of thought, various theories of color vision have been developed since antiquity. They were influenced by commonly accepted conceptualizations of color. Someone taught people to name colors based on their similarity to specific objects. This is where arguments about the colors of things come from, e.g., whether something is orange or salmon. This example may raise a trivial question: Is it nature or culture that determines our perception of colors? There is, of course, no clear answer to this question. It was only with the development of the scientific method that an “objective” physical basis for color theory was accepted. They do not fully explain all the conditions related to seeing and the effect of color on humans. As a discipline that breaks through cultural limitations, art touches the essence of color much more fully than philosophical and scientific theories.

Keywords:

perception, color theories, subtractive mixing, chromaticism, color relativity

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Janowski, J. (2021). Color Perceived and Color Named. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, (28), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2021.28.spec.1

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