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CAIXAFORUM. Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 1A
CaixaForum invites us to a trip through the colors of the world by the hand of National Geographic. Colors they make it up 55 Pictures from the photographic background of the mythical magazine grouped by its predominant colors, Set a total, For the seventh sample of the Cultural Center in Valencia. Humans are visual animals, he 80% From what we perceive we do it through sight and we are able to distinguish millions of colors thanks to our privileged brain, The eyes are only the devices that capture the light. That's why each one sees the world in a different way, that's why, and because our context influences perception (Amazonian are able to distinguish many nuances of green), and because the colors hide a cultural component. The Negre, for example, it is used to express grief to the West, But in other countries the East uses the blanc. Let's start the journey for him, that is not a color, but the mixture of all of them. In this section we highlight the white of Lake Salt de Bonneville (Utah) where car races are made at maximum speed from 1914 About a salt cryos, in the area yellow We have the clay with which the warriors of Papua Nova Guinea paint their faces to represent their ferocity (hui, only, for tourists delight) I in the violet -what, technically, Nor is it a color - a photograph taken in a colibrine colibrine study with the wings open. Some of the works are signed by reputable photographers such as French Lanting, a benchmark in nature photography showing a technically extraordinary piece of tinted of Taronja that looks like an oil paint; o Lynn Johnson, Who appears reflected in the eye of a half -covered girl covered by the tunic roja of her older sister in a photograph that is again technically excellent, by the distribution of the masses, by the diagonal that crosses it and to fulfill the law of 2/3. Blue It is the robe that protects the Tuareg from a salt caravan from the desert that crosses the desert and blue are the penguins who torpedo the sea portrayed by the master of underwater photography Paul Nicklen. We close the route with a totem of National Geographic, Steve McCurry, the author of the legendary Afghan girl of green eyes that revolutionized the world in the cover of June of 1985. In Colors, McCurry shows the snapshot of a group of women from Yemen collecting Ver alfalfa to give the herd food, clothes covers from top to bottom and with high, pumped hats that allow them to identify and control them from far away. S.M.
