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: 3 min John Slosn was a twentieth-century painter and etcher and one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Sprint yellow has been claimed as the color the company thinks will allow their brand to stand out in the crowded telecommunications space.
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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 Did Team Obama’s purple meaning match their message? That was the question of the day from the reports that called the morning after President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Read Time: 8 min Hair color plays a uniquely important role in our personal identity. Perhaps more than almost any other physical feature, our hair shapes the way we see ourselves and, as researchers have discovered, the way others see us.
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Read Time: 3 min Hans Hofmann was an influential 20th century a German-born American art teacher whose work paved the way for abstract expressionism. Hofmann The selected Hans Hofmann quotes reveal how he thought about color.
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Read Time: 4 min Veuve Clicquot yellow and the wisdom of the Widow Clicquot are colorful inspiration that can keep you on track towards your goals or resolutions.
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Read Time: 2 min Greenhorn, a popular term in the Old West, originally meant new. Today it has a broader meaning and is often considered to be a derogatory term.
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Read Time: 3 min When you say the yellow, consider that the origin of the word yellow go back at least a thousand years—and likely much further than that.
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Read Time: < 1 minute The windows at Anthropologie are always well done but these that asked & answered the question – Why Color?– especially captured my heart.
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Read Time: 2 min In the pink came out of fox hunting but now has an entirely different meaning.
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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 Discover the link between these two color idioms — blue blood and silver spoon – and learn why an aristocrats blood is blue.
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Read Time: < 1 minute If someone tells you that today is a red letter day, they mean it’s a day of importance, such as a holiday or anniversary. But why “red letter?”
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Read Time: < 1 minute Today yellow journalism means irresponsible, exaggerated, lurid, and even slanderous reporting, a definition that hasn’t strayed far from the original meaning.
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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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Read Time: 2 min Chuck Close is an American painter/artist and photographer who achieved fame through his massive-scale portraits. His quotes speak to his use of color but viewing one of his canvases up close tells a great deal about how he thinks about and uses color.
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Read Time: < 1 minute One of the most recognizable brand colors in the world is Owens Corning pink and this smart company uses the color pink in their logo, products & packaging.
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