2006-12-11 11:17:25 · 9 answers · asked by Hot Tub Johnny 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Light Spectrum: absence of color
Pigment: combo of "all colors"
2006-12-11 11:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically color is all in the way a substance reflects light. If I am wearing a green sweater in a pitch black room, it's not really any color. Colors absorb all the colors of the light spectrum except for the one they appear to be, which they reflect and that is what meets our eye as color. Black absorbs all the colors of the spectrum- it is really just the absence of anything that reflects a color, though if you look closely, you will find very little true black.
2006-12-11 11:24:16 · answer #2 · answered by Ella S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the same time as i replaced into at college, i replaced into advised (no longer requested) by my paintings instructor that black isn't a coloration. That no longer something in nature is black. It aggravated me then, and it does now. What coloration is my husband's Asian hair then? What coloration are the stripes between the yellow ones on a bee? we've black butterflies the position I stay and black beetles with white spots. I see black in nature each and each and every of the time and it has no longer something to do with a lack of light. perhaps i'm coloration blind, or something.
2016-11-25 21:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. The absence of light is more precise. No light is the equivalent of pure blackness, but There is such a thing a black pigment which is frequently used to make shades of a color. In that sense, it could also be considered a color.
2006-12-11 11:22:07 · answer #4 · answered by robertspraguejr 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Black is a color. you see colors when light shines off an object. when you see a color, your eye tells your brain how mych light is reflecting off. your brain matches the amount of light reflecting off with a color and that is what you see. Black is when no light reflects back. Black is also the absence of light shining on an object.
2006-12-11 11:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by *Fml 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black, while commonly referred to as a color, is, in actuality, the absence of color.
2006-12-11 11:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by lanah5280 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
black is truly the absence of colour, because black absorbs all the color spectrum. (when something is blue it absorbs all colour except blue, and the blue in the light spectrum is reflected back for us to see).
2006-12-11 13:14:46 · answer #7 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically, it is a combination of all colors.
2006-12-11 11:20:42 · answer #8 · answered by Proud Liberal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people say its not a colour "it's a shade" but who are they to say that black isn't a colour. what did black ever do to them
2006-12-11 11:20:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋