Yesterday I posted about “The Language of Color” in which John H. McWhorter points out that some languages don’t have the words ours does to describe colors. Ancient Greek was one such language, and did not have words for yellow, green, or blue. In The Iliad, Homer refers to “the wine dark sea.” Upon examination, that poetry seemed like a moment of either profound lacking of rods and cones, or a very limited color vocabulary.
In response to my post, V. Notes reader Miles Strombach sent in this picture, taken by his friend in Greece. The wine dark sea is real!!!
WTF Art History: Color
If you like purple and other useless words, you’ll hate Suzanne Walker’s upcoming WTF Color lecture on Nov 4th. Active League students attend free, with coupon code (just ask!). $20 for the rest of you. Please let us know you’re attending so we can have a chair for you.
Artist Talk Nikki Barber on the Scientific Method TODAY! January 28th 2019, 5:30-7:00pm Bellevue College, Gallery Space D271 Science and art are not mutually exclusive. Both are used to explain and make sense of the world around us. Nikki uses her strong scientific background in biology and art to develop her printmaking process, and uses …
Thanks to those of you who sent me notice that the bees living on the roof of Notre Dame survived the fire. They got a bit drunk and sleepy, but they’re fine. I feel better. Thank you. From the BBC: Notre-Dame’s smallest residents have survived the devastating fire which destroyed most of the cathedral’s …
DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION I like to draw from observation. I like to study what I see, and experiment with how I see it. My goal is not realism, my goal is to find and discover. Every time I look at something, even something I’ve drawn before, I see things I didn’t see before, things I …
The Wine Dark Sea
Yesterday I posted about “The Language of Color” in which John H. McWhorter points out that some languages don’t have the words ours does to describe colors. Ancient Greek was one such language, and did not have words for yellow, green, or blue. In The Iliad, Homer refers to “the wine dark sea.” Upon examination, that poetry seemed like a moment of either profound lacking of rods and cones, or a very limited color vocabulary.
In response to my post, V. Notes reader Miles Strombach sent in this picture, taken by his friend in Greece. The wine dark sea is real!!!
WTF Art History: Color
If you like purple and other useless words, you’ll hate Suzanne Walker’s upcoming WTF Color lecture on Nov 4th. Active League students attend free, with coupon code (just ask!). $20 for the rest of you. Please let us know you’re attending so we can have a chair for you.
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