Year In Art

Monthly blog posts on art and its surroundings. Colors, movements, symbols, shapes.

2024InColors 7 min

The color blue in home decor, art and design | 2024InColors #05

A blog post about the color blue

maio 2024 →
2024InColors 7 min

The color red in fashion and aesthetics | 2024InColors #04

Red is a color that commands attention. It is the color of life. Blood coursing through veins, the first blush of dawn—and yet it is also the color of danger, evoking fire, war, and stop signs. Eva Heller, in Psychology of Colours (the foundational source of this series), describes red as a color full of […]

abril 2024 →
2024InColors 7 min

The colorGrey/Gray in art | 2024InColors #03

When it comes to the color gray (or grey), one of the first things that stands out is the difference in spelling between American and British English. This divergence dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries when American English, under the influence of lexicographer Noah Webster, simplified many British spellings to make them more […]

março 2024 →
2024InColors 7 min

The color green in art, design and painting | 2024InColors #02

To think about color is to think about light. From the perspective of physics, green occupies a unique place in the spectrum of visible light. Using the acronym ROYGBIV to memorize the order of colors by frequency and wavelength, green sits right in the middle, serving as a transitional bridge. It divides the visible spectrum […]

fevereiro 2024 →
2024InColors 7 min

The color yellow in art, design and painting | 2024InColors #01

A bit of the history of the pigment and how the color yellow was used throughout the history of arts

janeiro 2024 →