Color is the visual perception of light. The human eye perceives color through cone cells in the retina that are sensitive to different wavelengths of light. There are three color channels - red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white - that transmit color information from the eye to the brain. Some people have deficiencies in their cone cells that cause them to perceive fewer colors than others. Color comes from light and can appear more intense with brighter light. Artists use pigments combined with other materials to create the colors in paints, crayons, and other media. Different colors have symbolic meanings derived from nature, culture, religion, and other sources.

1. What is Color?

2. Color is the visual perception by the human eye of the light spectrum. Because perception of color stems from the varying sensitivity of different types of cone cells in the retina to different parts of the spectrum, colors may be defined and quantified by the degree to which they stimulate these cells.

10. C o l o r S c h e m e s

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24. Van gogh

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26. O’keeffe

27. Who created color?

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