Vincent van Gogh Quotes About Color
Read Time: 3 min Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
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Read Time: 3 min Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
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Read Time: 3 min It’s always exciting when new colors come front-and-center in the New Year. The Colors for 2014 did not disappoint, with offerings for just about every style and designer – from hot Radiant Orchid to soft Breath of Fresh Air. Here are my takes on ways to relate and incorporate 5 of the ‘It Colors’ for […]
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Read Time: 3 min The difference between waking up exhausted versus well-rested may actually depend on the color of your bedroom walls, says a new study.
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Read Time: 2 min I named all 64 Crayola crayon colors correctly. Can you?Okay, so maybe it did take me three tries before I got all 64 but the first two times I made silly mistakes and got 4 and two wrong on each respective try.I really do know that the new pink is named “famous” and not “celebrity” […]
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Read Time: 4 min Color Trends 2009 in the Personal Care IndustryDiscovering what is driving color trends 2009 begins with keen observations of the world community, detecting what is on our minds and where our eyes are focused, and asking: “Why?”Digging down to basic emotions and needs is the basis for any assessment of how trends might translate into […]
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Read Time: 4 min To understand how different types of light affect color you have to know a little about what light is, how it works, and its relationship to color.
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Read Time: 2 min This week I’m reviewing a book described as “a celebration of human creativity” – Colourful World by Amandine Guisez Gallienne. Throughout time man has used color to enhance himself and the world around him. This book beautifully reveals the colors of the world; not the colors found in the natural surroundings but rather the colors selected […]
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Read Time: 3 min Josef Albers provided the most comprehensive analysis of the function and perception of color to date and profoundly influenced art education and artistic practice in the twentieth century.
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Read Time: 2 min Changing tastes in accordance with changing times has led to some people moving to a more upbeat and vibrant color, however, the traditional pastels have still remained with the inhabitants of this paradise.
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Read Time: 3 min Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Wittgenstein quotes about color indicate he had a keen interest in art, too.
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Read Time: 2 min If you’re knowledge of Irish history only goes as deep as a mug of beer you might be surprised to learn that St. Patrick’s color wasn’t green.
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Read Time: 2 min To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day traditions Chicago turns the river green and many pubs turn their beer green but did you know that in both cases to create the color of Ireland (from where it got its name “The Emerald Isle.”) the dye isn’t green?
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Read Time: 5 min Garnet, is the January birthstone color or maybe we should say colors since it comes in a variety of color choices.
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Read Time: 3 min American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe quotes show how strongly she felt about color. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes and is recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”.
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Read Time: 5 min If you want to learn to see and match colors there is no better training ground than learning to duplicating what you see in paint, pastels, or colored pencils. It requires you to really see the color of things. In fact, most artist spend as much time looking at what they are painting as they […]
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Read Time: 3 min To produce a TRUE International Klein Blue, the specific process of dry pigments and synthetic resin must be followed. The majority of manufacturers today use Yves Klein Blue as a color direction and then match it as best they can with their own processes and therefore are not really true patented Yves Klein Blue.
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Read Time: 2 min Color me happy? The many moods people experience vary just about as much as the different colors people tend to use to describe their moods.
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Read Time: 3 min Purple. It’s a color that calls to mind opulence and royalty. However, the origin of the word purple has a history as rich as the images it evokes.
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Read Time: 3 min Which came first the fruit or the color? The origin of the word orange reveals the answer to this color riddle.
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Read Time: 2 min The word green didn’t take a twisting linguistic road. The English word for green is remarkably close to its original spelling and meaning.
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