Where do colors come from?

Question

I know secundary colors come from primary colors (red, blue and yellow) but where do the primary colors come from? And who invented them? Explain.

Thanks :)

Thanks TG but I was talking about the thing with light and what prjects colors and stuff. Not pigments, but thanks anyway. I guess I just posted it in the wrong section. Sorry.

Answer 1

1.) electromagnetic radiation (light) comes with different wavelengths.
2). we have 3 different types of photoreceptors in our retina. Each type is most sensitive to light of a different wavelength.

Primary colors are the colors which stimulate one type of photoreceptor best. There are 3 different primary colors because we have 3 different types of photoreceptors.
Color blind people may have only 2 different types of photoreceptors, which means they recognize only 2 primary colors.

It can get a bit confusing with what the primary colors are, because you have to distinguish between light we directly see and light which gets reflected from objects. Look up additive and subtractive color mixing at wikipedia. You can also look up color vision on there.

Answer 2

Since this question is in arts, I assume you're talking about pigments, and not the optical properties of light as first described by Newton.

Invention of most pigments is shrouded in the prehistoric past. Local artists used colors that were available locally. Ochre, charcoal and colored clays, for example, were used on the walls of caves tens of thousands of years ago. Even during the Renaissance, many artists ground their own pigments from either local materials or those imported for the purpose. Lapis Lazuli, for example, was brought from Afghanistan by caravan over the silk road and ground into a fine blue pigment by artists such as Leonardo and Michelangelo. An advance was made at about this time when it was discovered that grinding colored glass and mixing it with point provided colors that were brilliant and long-lasting. This provided an important new market to the glassmakers of Venice, and also provided new approaches to colors. Reds, for example, had tended to be kind of dull and earthy. But Venice glassmakers made a brilliant red glass by mixing in small amounts of gold, which in turn provided a gorgeous red paint when ground fine. This may have been the first chemical approach to coloring. Other sources long remained obscure. The most sought-after yellow pigment for example, was discovered only after centuries of secrecy to be derived from the concentrated urine of cattle who were fed only mango leaves.

In more recent times, the majority of pigments have come from synthetic sources. These were for the most part discovered by chemists working in the German dye industry in the 1930s and later.

Answer 3

Tough to explain briefly. This site does a far better job explaining colors than I ever could. Hope it helps.

Answer 4

some puffed up man thinking hes an angel when he's really only a hell.

Answer 5

colors are colors becuase thats the way god wanted it to be