OPTICAL COLOR MIXTURE
The tendency of the eyes to blend patches of individual colors placed near one another so as to perceive a different, combined color.
optical color mixture Apparent rather than actual color mixture, produced by interspersing brush strokes or dots of color instead of physically mixing them. The implied mixing occurs in the eye of the viewer and produces a lively color sensation.
Optical color mixing is regulated by our "perception" of colour, rather than the mixture of colours on a palette.
Pointillism A system of painting using tiny dots or "points" of color, developed by French artist Georges Seurat in the 1880s. Seurat systematized the divided brushwork and optical color mixture of the Impressionists and called this technique ...
OPTICAL COLOR
color created through physiological perception. It occurs when we see a color that is not present, i.e., when there are thin lines of red and yellow near each other we sometimes see orange.
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Perspective became one of the core studies in art academies, which taught a tedious and formulaic form of perspective to its extinction. Near its demise, artists such as J.M.W. Turner made interesting explorations in optical color mixing and ...
 See also: Painting, Pointillism, Perception, Distortion, Roman
  
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