Disruptive coloration

Disruptive coloration -

Male leopard in Africa South, Wikipedia Photo by Lukas Kaffer

Disruptive coloration is a type of camouflage that removes an animal against its surroundings. It allows both predators and prey confuse each other and escape detection.



It can not only disguise a subject against its background, but also against others of its kind, making the boundaries of the form difficult to see. The effect would be particularly powerful when these zebras are running in all directions.

Abbott Thayer Richard Meryman, Peacock in the woods, 107.

in the early twentieth century, a group of artists and scientists have developed an interest in this subject, including Abbott Thayer, a student Jean-Léon Gérôme. His book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom has contributed to the use of camouflage in the First World War

Make a chart like this goes against our instincts to separate art forms of the background, but the effect has a powerful attraction for the viewer.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) The Hermit (It solitario) 108

other painters have taken the idea at the same time, including John Singer Sargent. In his painting "The Hermit," he asked an old man in the foothills of the Alps and lit with dappled light of the sun, which loses almost in the background.

in the left center of the image are two well hidden gazelles. Animals were based on a stuffed gazelle Sargent brought with him as a prop in his Alpine travels.

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Article by Richard Meryman Smithsonian, " A Painter of Angels became the father of Camouflage"
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