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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
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Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet
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The best way I've found of understanding this is to think not so much of something "being" a color but of it "doing" a color.
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When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored.
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The use of natural pigments is similarly embodied in the Orthodox teaching that humanity-like all Creation-was created pure but not perfect, and the purpose of being born is to reach your true potential."
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White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz-in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3
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Art history is so often about looking at the people who made the art; but I realized at that moment there were also stories to be told about the people who made the things that made the art. My
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But color-like sound and scent-is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe-and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While
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What they signified was precious, but what they were was not.
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Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color-like sound and scent-is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe-and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.
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