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I am passionate about light and color. These photographs in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos are colorful reflections of everyday life, from a simple glass to the stained glass windows of the Pedralbes monastery in Barcelona.
Color has always been understood as the impression produced by a tone of light on our visual organs. But, let's go further, because it is a visual perception that is generated in the brain - specifically in the occipital lobe - by interpreting the nervous signals sent by the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye.
Now, within the studies of color science, there is increasing evidence that there is evidence that colors are emotions.
For example, in The Grand Biocentric Design, Robert Lanza, one of the "100 most influential people" of our time according to Time magazine, has studied this phenomenon in collaboration with theoretical physicist Matej Pavšic and astronomer Bob Berman. The three try to clarify the enigmas that philosophy and science have long tried in vain to decipher.
And, regarding colors, emotional theory would point out that colors are deep patterns of emotions and neural connections.
Color theory is a group of basic rules in mixing colors to achieve the desired effect by combining light or pigment colors. In art, when colors are used to create a work, they transmit emotions to us. They do not leave us indifferent.
Vision is the sense of perception that consists of the ability to detect light and interpret it. But we do not remain impassive before the colors, but rather they awaken in us all kinds of emotions and reactions.
The perception of color in the human eye occurs in the sensitive cells of the retina that react differently to light depending on its wavelength. But, when the cellular architectures are stimulated through their respective cones in the retina, we live distinctive experiences: blue, for example, evokes the immensity of the sky and produces a much calmer sensation than red, while green gives us transmits the message of life associated with nature.
