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The Physics Teacher -- February 2003 -- Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 82

Physics in the Art Museum

Daniel A. Dale and Brenae L. Bailey

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

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Parisian artist Paul Signac met the impressionists Claude Monet and Georges Seurat in 1884. Their influence spurred his work in pointillism (or, where the juxtaposition of small dots of color in conjunction with the limited resolving power of the human eye lead to the impression of color coalescence).1–4 To stimulate a cross-disciplinary appreciation of science and art, we used the University of Wyoming Art Museum's Signac painting “Barques de Pêche à Marseilles” (see Fig. 1) to explore diffraction theory and the anatomical limitations to our vision during an optics exercise done in the museum.

© 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

optics, educational aids, eye, colour, vision, light diffraction

PACS

  • 42.25.Fx

    Diffraction and scattering

  • 42.66.Ne

    Color vision: color detection, adaptation, and discrimination

History
Online Jan 2003

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ISSN

0031-921X (print)  

Publisher

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ARTICLE DATA

Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1542042

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