A fascinating lecture on colour at the Chemistry Society. The lecturer, as always, was an expert, and talked about the way colours were produced from pre-historic times right up to the present. An interesting point he made was that in all languages the first names for colour were those that could be produced from the earth, e.g. browns, yellows, reds, and that it is only recently that it has been possible to produce the huge range, mostly produced in laboratories, that painters can use today. Things have moved a long way from the days when painters had to produce their own colours using natural materials.
But although such a huge range of colours is available, technology is not capable of reproducing the majority of them accurately either on the printed page or on the internet. What can be blue on a painting may well turn out to appear mauve on screen or in a book.
A fascinating lecture - I wanted to listen to it again on the internet, but unfortunately for some reason it was not available.
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