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He mixed colors to express the momentary landscape of sea, illuminated by sunlight in
the fog. However, the various mixed colors don’t look very bright. This is because of the
principle of subtractive mixing.
Colors are perceived wavelengths of light. We can perceive wavelengths from 380nm
to 780nm, and we call them the visible spectrum. This visible spectrum appears in
various colors. When the spectrum is explained simply, there are only three colors. The
wavelengths between 600-700nm appear red, 500-600nm appear green, and 400-500nm
appear blue. These are the three
primary colors of colored light.

If all three primary colors of
the visible spectrum are mixed,
it appears white. If only two of
them are mixed, they become
the secondary colors: yellow,
cyan, magenta. These secondary
colors are the primary colors of
the colorant. If three of them are
mixed, they become black, and
The three primary colors
if two of them are mixed, they
become red, green, and blue, the secondary colors of the colorant. In this way, we call the
mixing of colored lights “additive mixing” and mixing of colorants “subtractive mixing.” You
can understand painters mixing paints as subtractive mixing. The more colors are mixed,
the darker the colors
become. The mixed colors
made by subtractive color
have a lower brightness
than the original colors.
For this reason,
Impressionist painter’s
mixed colors do not
look very bright. Thus,
the Neo-Impressionists
came to the scene. Neo-
Impressionists applied
The spectrum of light optic theory and color

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