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“Mondrian” Color Panel

This collage of colored paper was created by Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, to study color vision. He called these panels his “Mondrians” after the painter Piet Mondrian, although Land theorized that they looked more like the work of Theo van Doesburg. After studying how people saw this panel under different kinds of light, Land developed theory of how color sensations were created by the eye and brain working together.


CHSI Inv. Number 2004-1-0258
1975 - 1985
Edwin Land, Roland Institute