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A Vibrant Violet Revelation: Van Gogh’s Irises through the lens of Color Science

Recent scientific examination of Van Gogh’s Irises revealed that the painting’s iris flowers, which today appear blue, were once purple. A key finding of the study was the identification and mapping of the light-sensitive red pigment geranium lake, which was mixed with three blue pigments—cobalt blue, ultramarine, and Prussian blue—to create the various shades found in the irises. When initially applied, the mixture of red geranium lake with the blue pigments would have created shades of purple. But, how purple?

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Date	Presenter	Title (link goes to abstract and/or slides when available)	Registration link (if available)
March 19, 2026	Dr Olivia Kuzio	A Vibrant Violet Revelation: Van Gogh’s Irises through the lens of Color Science	Registration Closed
July 8, 2025	Dr Mary Caswell Stoddard	Inside the Colorful World of Birds	Registration Closed
May 13, 2025	Prof John Seed and Ms Gabrielle Selz	Sam Francis and Color	Registration Closed
Apr 15, 2025	Dr. John Wiens	How life became colorful: the evolution of conspicuous colors (and their functions) in plants and animals	Registration closed
Jan 28, 2025	Mr. Andrew Reach	Color Equals Life	Registration closed
Dec 3, 2024	Dr. Julia Hartling	Chasing Colors: Evolutionary Insights into Why We See Red (and Everything Else)	Registration closed
Apr 23, 2024	Mr Kai Kupferschmidt	Blue – The Science of Nature’s Rarest Color	Registration closed
Jan 23, 2024	Dr Elisabeth Berry Drago	Exploring Dye Histories in Bold: Color from Test Tube to Textile	Registration closed
Apr 12, 2023	Ms Nuria Estape	Upcycling waste into timeless colors	Registration closed
Nov 7, 2023	Ms Judith van Vliet	The Power of Color, Changing Perceptions	Registration closed
Apr 12, 2023	Ms Nuria Estape	Upcycling waste into timeless colors	Registration closed
Mar 9, 2023	Dr Roland Fleming	How We Learn To See “Stuff"	Registration Closed
May 24, 2022	Dr Timo Kunkel	High Dynamic Range Imaging - Technologies, Applications and Perceptual Considerations	Registration closed
Apr 26, 2022	Dr Mike Royer	Understanding and Communicating Color Rendition	Registration Closed
Mar 1, 2022	Mr Nick Harkess and Ms Paula Alessi	A Meeting of Minds: Art and Colour Science"	Registration Closed
Nov 2, 2021	Dr Stephen Westland	Unravelling the effects of coloured environments and coloured lights	Registration closed
Sep 20, 2021	Dr Bevil Conway	The Brain: the Artist’s Medium	View Recording
May 12, 2021	Ms. Kine Angelo	The Greying of Norway	Registration closed
Mar 23, 2021	Dr Andy Towns	Now you see it, now you don't: industrial chromism	Registration closed
Jan 28, 2021	Dr. John Barbur	Colour Assessment for Health and Employment	Registration closed
May 5, 2020	Dr. Sally Augustin	The Science of Designing with Color: Making the Right Choices	Registration closed
Apr 14, 2020	Ms Shelli Sedlak	Light and Color with LED	Registration closed
Mar 17, 2020	Ms Ellen Divers	The "Blind Spot" in Architectural Color	Registration closed
Feb 25, 2020	Ms. Ruthanne M. Hanlon	Color and Culture	Registration closed
Jan 28, 2020	Mr Ken Butts	ULTRA-PORTABLE COLOR MEASUREMENT – A Spectro in Your Pocket	Registration closed
Nov 19, 2019	Mr Roland Connelly	Comparison of LED Lighting Adopted by Retailers to Typical LED Spectra Adopted by the CIE	Registration Closed
Oct 22, 2019	Dr Tony Stanton	Color Management in the Graphic Arts	Registration closed
Sep 24, 2019	Ms Ann Laidlaw & Ms Jodi Baker	Introduction to CIELab*	Registration closed
Jul 9, 2019	Mr Fritz Horstman	Interacting with Color: the Art and Teaching of Josef Albers	Registration closed
Mar 21, 2019	Dr Michael Webster	Adaptation and color	Registration closed
Feb 19, 2019	Ms Kristen Dettoni	Print on Demand - Exploring the Market Opportunities	Registration closed
Jan 9, 2019	Dr Jean Hoskin	Application of Albers's Interaction of Color to Color Evaluation	Registration closed
Oct 16, 2018	Dr Andrew Stockman	Cone fundamentals, color matching functions, luminous efficiency and individual differences	Registration closed
Sep 18, 2018	Dr Mark Fairchild	Color Appearance, Color Order, & Other Color Systems	Registration closed
May 30, 2018	Ms Lori Sayawa	Psychological Color Temperature and Color Harmony	Registration closed
Apr 25, 2018	Dr Paul Centore	A Practical Introduction to the Munsell Colour System for Artists	Registration closed
Mar 21, 2018	Dr David Briggs	The New Anatomy of Colour	Registration link (to view the recording)
Feb 21, 2018	Mr John Seymour	Albert Munsell, the Father of Color Science?	Registration Closed
Jan 17, 2018	Dr Roy Berns	Webinar: Color Science and the Visual Arts	Registration closed
Sept 27, 2017	Dr Anthony Stanton	Webinar: Color in Digital Cinema	Registration closed.
Mar 21 2017	Dr Mark D Fairchild	From Photon to Brain: The Perception of Color	Registration closed.
Dec 5 2016	Dr Susan Farnand and Dr Michael J. Murdoch	Challenges and rewards of teaching an online color science course Seminar recording (37MB!)	Registration closed.
Sep 22 2016	Mr A. Nurhan Becidyan	The Chemistry & Physics of Special Effect Pigments & Colorants	Registration closed.
Mar 29 2016	Mr John Conant	The Right Paint Color to Help Hide a Helicopter	Registration closed.
Dec 8 2015	Dr. Françoise Viénot	Color Vision Fundamentals: A Model for the Future of Colorimetry	Registration closed.
Sep 10 2015	Ms Ann Laidlaw	The Future of Lighting: Color, Efficiency, and Compliance	Registration closed.

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