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Web Exhibits: Color Vision & Art GraphicWeb Exhibits: Color Vision & Art Graphic
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Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement
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9th - 10th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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Graphics & Images
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Web Exhibits: Color Vision & Art

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This online exhibit demonstrates how human vision works and has influenced Western art. It combines the biology of vision and art history. The exhibit focuses on the eye and its response to color and contrast while highlighting several well known artists and their work.

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color theory

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art and the human eye, art and vision, color and art, color and the eye, science and art, the human eye, vision and color, webexhibits: color vision & art, art connections to science

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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