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.
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TAUTOLOGY useless repetition An “artist rendering” is …
Welcome to the 30SAL Creative Challenge! Broaden your creative skills Every day this January we’ll post a creative challenge to our V. Notes blog. Subscribers will receive these posts in their inbox. Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, our challenges are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s …
Chinese-American artist Jeffrey Cheung’s hairy and intertwined queer and trans figures gave me a lift today. Playful and positive, and sweet as ice cream ads, Cheung’s 2016 exhibition featured comfortable peach and pink figures in couplings, but with some minor adjustments to his palette and the numbers of figures, his recent paintings depict multicolored figures in sexually …
This is day 3 of the 30SAL creative challenge! To learn more about this 30 day challenge, click here. Today, study and sketch the geometry of this tondo (circular) composition by Masaccio. Don’t worry about illustrating the figures and details, just focus on the relationships of the big shapes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be …
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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Chinese-American artist Jeffrey Cheung’s hairy and intertwined queer and trans figures gave me a lift today. Playful and positive, and sweet as ice cream ads, Cheung’s 2016 exhibition featured comfortable peach and pink figures in couplings, but with some minor adjustments to his palette and the numbers of figures, his recent paintings depict multicolored figures in sexually …
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