Color Theory#2 Color as Pigments

The answers:
1. Black is a color because it is something you can make using pigments/paint.

 

Explanation:
Here’s a way to show how black is made: Combine all three primary colors (red yellow and blue) using a liquid paint or you even food coloring. You won’t get a jet black, but the point will be clear. The history of black pigments includes charcoal, iron metals, and other chemicals as the source of black paints.

White cannot be a pigment because it is not a color you can make naturally by mixing the 3 primary colors. Now both theories prove each other wrong so which one do you guys think is right?

 

Color Theory#1 Colors as Light

1. Black is the absence of light so it cannot be a color

Explanation:
When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors.

2. White is the blending of all colors and is a color.

Explanation:
Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum.  A rainbow is proof. You can’t see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow.

In this theory, black cannot be defined as a color however white is a color because it is the combination of all colors.

 

 

Are Black and White Colors?

The answer to the question  “Are black and white colors?”   is an interesting question on the topic of color. Ask a scientist and you’ll get a reply based on physics: “Black is not a color, white is a color.” Ask an artist or a child with crayons and you’ll get  “Black is a color, white is not a color.” The reason for this is because there are two color theories. Color can be described as either a light which makes black not a color or it could be described as a pigment which makes white not a color. I’ll be covering this topic in my blog posts later today.

Newspapers

Most American newspapers were fully black and white until the early 1980s. Notable black and white newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post remained black and white until the 1990s. Even today, there is restricted coloring allowed on newspapers due to how many resources are necessary to mass produce newspapers. A pro of black and white color is that it is noticably cheaper then printing newspapers in color due to less color needed in order to make papers ranging in a lower cost.

Black and White TV Sets

Television programming used to be transmitted in black and white, this means that TV sets could also only support colors ranging on the black and white scale. This doesn’t mean movies weren’t popular back in the old days, It just meant color didn’t exist on television. A lot of animated shorts were created in black and white and so were a lot of movies.

Why are soccer balls black and white?

The game of soccer has a very long history. It used to be played in the old days with inflated pig bladders. It wasn’t until around the 20th century that the soccer balls began to look the way they look now. The soccer ball got its black and white markings for the 1970 world cup in Mexico. The ball was called the Telstar and it was black and white so it would be more distinguishable to people on television. This version of the soccer ball became popular and the version we all know and love today.

New York city skyline

The new York city skyline is breathtakingly captured in this photo. The black and white filter really highlights the water and the buildings. The light from the buildings are also really well captured.

Girls delivering ice

This is a famous black and white photo from the 1920s which is known as the roaring 20s. This was the period when women began to start getting rights.this is due to the fact that after ww1 women began getting more rights in the US.

Funerals

Why is it that at funerals everyone is always wearing black? I think it is because of what the color black symbolizes. Black is the color of the night, black is the color of evil, and it is also the color of birth, sorrow and the afterlife. We are born from nothingness which is the color of black and when we pass away we must also fade away.