The Colour Eye

Part 1 Experiencing colour: an exploration of the subjective impact of colour and different aspects of the psychology of colour. Part 2 Seeing and missing colour: seeing difference between light and pigment; how the eye works; how we see light and the nature of light; how colour films, prints; how colour TV works; prisms and rainbows; how animals, birds and insects see colour; the colour wheel; mixing colour to produce other colour; the spatial and optical effects of putting different colours together; mixing coloured lights. Part 3 Wearing colour: an exploration of colour in clothes and make up. Part 4 Decorating with colour in the house: how the shape, look and mood of rooms can be changed through the different uses of colour. Part 5 History of colour: the way colour pigments have been made from the earliest times; the important discoveries that have deepened our understanding of colour; current rewsearch. Part 6 Painting with colour: how artists have used colour in Western painting and sculpture. Part 7 Symbol and colour: the symbolic uses of colour; cultures whose symbolic use of colour is different to our own. Part 8 Commerce and colour: how colour is used to manipulate in advertising, photography and marketing.