The experience and experimentation of artists has influenced our understanding of colour and the development of a theory of colour vision through the way that they experimented with colour and light through optical mixing and simultaneous contrast. Simultaneous contrast is strongest when the two colours are complementary, which are colours that are completely opposite on a colour circle like Newton’s colour circle. And example of this is Vincent Van Gogh’s painting ‘The Night Café’. “I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green.” 1 (Gage, J)
Reference:
Gage, J. (1993). Colours of the Mind in Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (pp.191-212). New York: Thames and Hudson.
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