Read Time: 3 min Claude Monet was born in 1840, in Paris, France. He enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression” and the term stuck.
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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 Many credit Shakespeare with inventing the idea of green with envy but a Greek beat him to it by more than 2,000 years.
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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 Mismatched colors and patterns aren’t a problem when you discover that mixing patterns and colors is monumentally cool and creative.
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Read Time: < 1 minute UPS has grown from a messenger service to a worldwide delivery company recognized for excellent service and identified by the color UPS brown.
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Read Time: 2 min Do you remember the green ketchup? Even though it was no different than good ole red ketchup, I couldn’t eat the stuff. It just didn’t taste right. Why? Because color affects the taste or at least how we perceive something to taste.In the same way, people make snap judgments about a person by the way […]
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Read Time: 2 min A blue moon happens only rarely. Find out what exactly a blue moon is and when you can see this amazing color phenomenon.
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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: 2 min The smart couple that founded this company understand that the use of color, whether as a name, logo, product or packaging, must be done strategically.
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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 The color red has played an instrumental role in Indian customs and beliefs, most notably married women.
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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 Bluwood brand color teal may become the next unique color recognized in building materials and become a billboard for the product on new construction sites.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Attention, electronics retailers and manufacturers: Pink packaging or products is not the way to a womans wallet. Women want products that work in a range of colors!
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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: 2 min Morley Safer, on the television program 60 minutes, met savant Daniel Tammet, who is called ‘Brain Man’ in Britain. Unlike most savants, he has no apparent mental disability and, most important to scientists; he can describe his thought process. He may very well be a scientific Rosetta stone — a key to understanding the brain.In […]
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Read Time: 2 min You may not be aware that color names communicate a message, but they do. Color names change how we perceive a product making it essential that the descriptive color names match the aspirations a person has for purchasing a product. Here is what happens when they don’t.
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