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Black is an visual perception caused by a certain amount of certain colors of light (in this case
none) entering the human eye, just like any other color. |
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Of course it is if its not a color what is it |
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Color is what you see when light reflects on an object. So if light is shining on an object and you
see black it must be a color. |
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These were all great comments. All I can add is from a painter's perspective...
Our eyes perceive color based on the way particles (pigments or dyes) reflect light. Sometimes the
same particle that makes one color (yellow ochre for example) appears as a different color to the
eye (red, brown, violet, even black) depending on very slight changes to its size or shape because
then the light bounces off of it a little differently. That's in fact how cave men made many of
their earth colors for cave paintings, they cooked their ochres (earth and stone samples) to
different degrees thus making many colors out of one paint source. Yet the chemical composition
might all be the same despite different appearances.
So, my point is, what you see as red or yellow (or even black) depends on light reflecting on a
particle. The black shirt referred to in comments does have actual particles, maybe even the same
particles used to make the blues or browns in the same shirt, but most of the shirt's particles are
appearing as black.
Granted there can be a room so dark and so absent of light that everything in it appears as black,
but then that's really not a true test of color because items that would look blue or red may be
sitting in that same room and just not getting the opportunity to reflect light. It doesn't mean
everything sitting in that room is technically black.
And by the way, few painters actually prefer carbon blacks to depict black, you can get a far more
interesting darkness in your painting by blending a deep blue with a deep brown. Why?, because you
get more interesting particles reflecting in a combination to make it look black, not simply charred
carbon. |
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Artistically black is the most dense in the spectrum. |
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Officially no, all black is just a high density of another color, usually green or brown, but
philosophically I say yes. |
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Nice, change of pace, Automan1.
Yes, black is considered a "color".
You can buy a shirt in black in ANY store, anywhere, so it MUST be a colour ! :-)
I only have one black shirt!
It has screenprinting of outer space on it: Saturn, the milky way Orion Nebula, Venus, the Horsehead
nebula, and Magellanic Clouds..........from the Space Observatory.
It is not your ordinary black ;-)
Black is a colour not to be taken lightly....;-)
It has an aura of Mystery.......for most modern people highly sexual! |
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19 Sep 2008 00:45
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