... consisting of water. This is because a lot of artists were fascinated by it. The light bounced off the water and with the ripple effects the image became unfocused and sketchy. There impressionist paintings are usually pale and mellow. This is because black was a banned colour in this movement. I t is described as zero light. Pure colour was used in all paintings described as a rainbow palette because of ... the investigation into the way light strikes the retina in a number of individual rays and how white light is made up of the colours of the rainbow. Using these pure colours, dabs o...

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