I really like the color blue, its my favorite color its one of the three primary colors, do you like blue?
I love blue! My favourite shade is probably cornflower
Its nice, its a shade of medium-to-light blue with a touch of green, i love it
Yeah, it's beautiful. I like cobalt too though - in fact I've always wanted to paint my kitchen that colour, ha ha.
Thats a good idea for a kitchen, but even better painting your bathroom in cornflower, blue is also really important in art
Really? In what way?
Well the semi-precious stone lapis was used in Egypt for jewellery, after it was the most expensive of all pigments
I've been to Cairo - some of the lapis jewellery I saw there was absolutey stunning
it in the windows of cathedrals. Europeans wore clothing coloured with the vegetable dye woad until it was replaced by the finer indigo from America. In the 19th century, synthetic blue dyes and pigments gradually replaced mineral pigments and synthetic dyes. Dark blue became a common colour for military uniforms and later, in the late 20th century, for business suits. Because blue has commonly been associated with harmony, it was chosen as the colour of the flags of the United Nations and the European Union.
Surveys in the US and
way of showing reflection. The pink drapery underneath Venus, possibly representing love because it is a derivative of red, has loose areas of color throughout it. The three primary colors are displayed in the piece: yellow, blue, and pink and are the most vibrant of the piece, all in a pastel shade. All the draperies have lose white brushes on them in order to look like reflections of the light.
Annibale Carracci is probably most well known for his work on the Farnese Gallery Ceiling, which was commissioned