McClymont, Alistair (2020) Magenta. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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Creators: | McClymont, Alistair |
Description: | Magenta is colour we see, but one that does not exist in a physical form, it reveals something internal. Our relationship with the 'real' world is through our senses and an internal interpretation. Our eyes are sensitive to wavelengths of light at particular wavelengths, each wavelength of the visible spectrum can be called a colour, a prism reveals all of these available colours, but magenta is missing. Isaac Newton noticed that combining the light from 2 prisms and overlapping the blue and red ends of each spectrum creates magenta, this artwork recreates Newton's experiment. Magenta is an extra-spectral colour, meaning it is missing from the spectrum because there is no wavelength for magenta, but our eyes see the combination of two wavelengths and magenta is created by our brain interpreting the two colours in this way. This simple act of combining two rainbows demonstrates that our interpretation of the world differs vastly from 'reality', we view the world through a narrow band of senses and create an internal image that is a very human version of the truth. |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | 1 January 2020 |
Related Websites: | https://www.alistairmcclymont.com, https://www.alistairmcclymont.com/biography/irisations-espace-multimedia-gantner |
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Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date APT Gallery London 3 August 2020 6 August 2020 Irisations, Espace Multimédia Gantner, France 9 April 2022 16 July 2022 |
Date Deposited: | 06 May 2025 11:35 |
Last Modified: | 06 May 2025 11:35 |
Item ID: | 23989 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23989 |
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