Origin Of The Word Blue
Read Time: 3 min Think you know what the word blue means? The origin of the word blue didn’t mean the color blue at all. What it meant might surprise you.
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Read Time: 3 min Think you know what the word blue means? The origin of the word blue didn’t mean the color blue at all. What it meant might surprise you.
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Read Time: 3 min From sophisticated elegance to evil incarnate, few colors conjure up such strong images as black.
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Read Time: 3 min Eugène Delacroix was one of the leading artists of the French Romantic period of the 19th century. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and use of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
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Read Time: 3 min James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a U.S.-born British painter who is best-known for his painting, “Whistler’s Mother”. Here is what he had to say about color.
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Read Time: 2 min Survey shows that health-conscious buyers are more likely to be drawn to foods in blue packaging. Find out why we connect this color to low-fat foods.
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Read Time: 3 min While most color words have their origins in long lists of dusty etymological explanations, the origin of the word magenta is worthy of a summer blockbuster.
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Read Time: 2 min With over 750 structures in bright Curacao colors, it is no wonder that UNESCO awarded Willemstad the decree of a World Heritage City.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Did you know that there is a condition called Porphyrophobia which is the fear of the color purple? Yes, believe it or not, there is.
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Read Time: 3 min Post-Impressionist French painter Paul Cézanne is best known for his incredibly varied painting style, which greatly influenced 20th century abstract art.
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Read Time: 3 min Every color has a story. CJ Volk is the storyteller.The creator of Citron Paint blends her gorgeous shades based on the memories of her favorite things. Her grandmother inspired Lala’s Laugh while the love affair with her husband helped create Steamy Romance. For Volk, her passion for color intertwines with a deep passion for life’s […]
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Read Time: 6 min India has always been exalted as a country of symbolic colors. The colorful culture is a large part of the Indian consciousness.
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Read Time: 3 min Ellen Kennon might not have had a key, but that didn’t keep her from peering through the bars of New York’s Gramercy Park. The private green space was around the corner from her concrete apartment, but it might as well have been a million miles away. Working as a high profile designer for a litany […]
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Read Time: 4 min Color and variety are synonymous with Indian culture. One of the most symbolic, Holi Festival is steeped in Indian traditions.
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Read Time: 2 min Given red’s “pushy” reputation, how a red room affects productivity isn’t exactly as once thought. The true answer, like the devil is in the details.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Just as Apple releases orange as their latest and greatest color addition, folks in Wales see it as outdated.Cardiff Bus, the dominant bus operator in the Welsh capital Cardiff and the surrounding area, will scrap its orange brand buses when it phases out the last vehicles in the summer, in favor of environmentally friendly, low-floor […]
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Read Time: 3 min Color communicates meaning and set the mood in a film. See my review of how masterfully color is used throughout this film.
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Read Time: 3 min Brown is a go-to neutral. Yet despite its decidedly modern appeal, the origin of the word brown has been around since weaving was new technology.
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Read Time: 2 min Whether bright white or stormy gray, what the weatherman knows that you may not is why some clouds are light or dark, and what the cloud color indicates.
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Read Time: 11 min Color Meaning of Red Explained; symbolism, psychology, word associations, intrigue facts about red and how to use this attention-getting color effectively.
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Read Time: 8 min Color Meaning of Purple Explained; symbolism, psychology, word associations, intrigue facts about blue and how to use this royal color effectively.
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