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.
I am thrilled to be showing new work at SAM Gallery! This is a portrait show with six fabulous Seattle artists. I’ll share about the making of these paintings, and post to V. Notes soon. SAM GALLERY PRESENTS: FREE RADICALS JUN 12 – JUL 7 2019 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM SAM GALLERY 10 AM – 5 …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7322″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] No color combination has more vitality than red and green, and no other combination has potential to induce so much nausea from oversaturated application, most commonly in wrapping paper on a magical day like today. This is the one day in the whole year I find myself longing to …
After posting the Japanese funerary artworks of Haniwa from the 3rd through the 6th centuries, I was curious what other cultures around the world were making for funerary art at that time. First I posted Haniwa, then I posted Roman Catacomb frescoes, and today I have ceramic figurines from ancient China. These ceramic attendants were …
New Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2021 The first annual Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards are aimed at encouraging artists to focus on and develop the theme of portraiture in their work. The competition is open to everyone aged sixteen and over, in recognition of the outstanding and innovative work in drawing, painting, printmaking, and mixed media. 1st Prize: …
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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[image_with_animation image_url=”7322″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] No color combination has more vitality than red and green, and no other combination has potential to induce so much nausea from oversaturated application, most commonly in wrapping paper on a magical day like today. This is the one day in the whole year I find myself longing to …
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