Even Greygirl needs some colour and mine is blue; it can be air, water, and a mood. I'm not talking Tory tie blue, oh no.
Wassily Kandinsky in his book 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art' has some interesting things to say about blue:
"Blue
is the typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one
of rest. When it sinks almost to black, it echoes a grief that is
hardly human. When it rises towards white, it's appeal to men grows
weaker and more distant.
In
music a light blue is like a flute, a darker blue a cello; a still
darker a thunderous double bass; and the darkest blue of all - an
organ."
Did Kandinsky have Synesthesia? I can't remember.
Of course blue can be melancholy, but it also describes a music genre, a whole period of Picasso, is a much-loved Joni Mitchell album and the exquisite cool of Miles Davis.
Blue is present in many of the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, a colour of depth and distance. Mixed with blue a colour becomes cooler, darker and begins to receed.
Ultramarine, cerulean, cobalt, azure, turquoise, prussian.
Bluebells, cornflowers, forget-me-nots and one of my favourite berries.
Of course blue can be melancholy, but it also describes a music genre, a whole period of Picasso, is a much-loved Joni Mitchell album and the exquisite cool of Miles Davis.
Blue is present in many of the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, a colour of depth and distance. Mixed with blue a colour becomes cooler, darker and begins to receed.
Ultramarine, cerulean, cobalt, azure, turquoise, prussian.
Bluebells, cornflowers, forget-me-nots and one of my favourite berries.
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