Impression, Sunrise , the famous Monet painting that kicked off the Impressionist movement, may be responsible for yet another artistic movement—just a little one, though. 142 years after Claude Monet first painted his masterpiece, modern scientists have re-created a tiny, tiny, tiny version of Impression, Sunrise, using the wonders of nanotechnology.
““Our work expands the visible color space through spatially mixing and adjusting the nanoscale spacing of discrete nanostructures,” says their study abstract, which is published in the Nano Letters scientific journal.
Using aluminum nanostructures, which were capable of generating full spectrums of color after being struck with light, scientists of the Singapore University of Technology and Design managed to create a work of art that’s being called the world’s smallest masterpiece. Instead of using paint, these scientists used their nanostructures to microscopically scatter light, which enabled them to create a color palette that contained approximately 300 distinctive colors.
Their version of Monet’s masterpiece is also only 300 micrometers—which is the same size as a single, solitary pixel on a 17-inch computer screen.
Right? You could make Impression, Sunrise out of billions of these microscopic masterpieces. Maybe nanotech artwork really will be the next big art movement.
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