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Re: Ok, Art Teachers; help me out here...

From: Susan Bennett (sbennett)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 07:39:02 PDT

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    Back in th old days at Ohio State I took a perception course offered by the
    psychology department I think. It was a required course as I recall for art
    ed majors. There we were shown color mixing with light rays. It is different
    that oppaque mixing done with paint pigments. So what I remember learning
    that in painting the primary cololrs are red blue and yellow, but in light
    rays they are red blue and green. It seems that when blue is layered on top
    of green that the resulting color is yellow. We were shown how other things
    about spectrums. Like the absence of all color and the presence of all
    color. Susan in Ohio

    ----Original Message-----
    From: Lawrence A. Parker <occti>
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
    Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:55 PM
    Subject: Ok, Art Teachers; help me out here...

    >Lawrence A. Parker
    >Philosopher/Educational Consultant
    >The Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
    >http://www.acorn.net/lists-ht/occti.html
    >Truth, Honor and Courage
    >
    >I bought my kids a new dictionary (American Heritage, 1998 -
    >Houghton-Mifflin). I was talking with my son, Geoff, just now about colors
    >and primary colors. He hasn't heard of them yet, so I had him look up
    first
    >"primary" and then "primary colors" in the dictionary.
    >
    >Under "Primary Colors" it says: "n. 1. Any of the three colors of light,
    >red, green, and blue, from which light of any color can be made my
    >mixing..."
    >
    >Now, excuse me, unless I've totally lost it (which is, after all,
    completely
    >possible, but I don't think so in this case), aren't the three primary
    >colors Red, Blue and Yellow? Because Green is a mixture of Blue and
    Yellow?
    >
    >If I'm not off my rocker, than what is a respected name like AH and H-M
    >doing putting out mistakes like this? How can our children trust knowledge
    >if they're being given mis-information from the most basic source, a
    >dictionary?
    >
    >Thanks,
    >Larry
    >
    >
    >---
    >
    > 

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