Recently I posted about The Language of Color, in which I relate pinking shears to pink, the color. Please allow me to clarify.
pink and pinked
According to WordHistories.net, the noun “pink” is first recorded in 1566, but not as the name for a color. “Pink” was the name for a flower, that Dianthus plumarius after which the pinking shears were named. The flowers, obviously, were pink. A sort of white-ish red.
But wait. There’s more! Before pink was the name for the flower, the name for when your eye gets all small and narrow and winking, or squeezed. Pinkie winking, what’s what they called it. No not really. But in 1544 it was a verb: to pink.
Dandelion
If you did not enjoy this pink V. Note, you will surely not enjoy the lecture today. Suzanne Walker, Phd, BFD will be launching rainbows for our WTF Art History: COLOR lecture, 1:00 at the League. Free for League students, please attend.
Writing process Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote about 450 speeches a year, and delivered somewhere around 2,000 speeches in his lifetime. His most famous works took form over countless iterations and inter-weaving with previous sermons and writings, as well as integrated pieces of feedback from his friends and advisors. Preparations On August 27, 1963, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10254″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Lucy Garnett, Notan Study, Salish Sea The Salish Sea Art Show In conjunction with Fredericka Foster’s Art & Activism; The Salish Sea class series, the League will be hosting a juried Salish Sea art show September 15-16, 2018. You do not need to be an active member of the …
Origin of the word “Pink”
Recently I posted about The Language of Color, in which I relate pinking shears to pink, the color. Please allow me to clarify.
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