Sunday, April 10, 2011

Exploring Color—Red

     Eagle, 1971. Alexander Calder. Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle WA.  Seattle Museum of Art. www.seattlemuseum.org

• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. New York.
• The Color Compendium by Augustine Hope and Margaret Walch. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
• Color, Environment & Human Response by Frank H. Mahnke. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Calder’s Universe by Jean Lipman. Running Press.
• Piet Mondrian, editor Jose Maria Faerna. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers.
• Colors of the World, The Geography of Color by Jean-Philippe Lenclos and Dominique Lenclos. W.W. Norton & Co.
• "Cochineal", Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal
• “Insects Used for Red Food Coloring” by Beth Taylor.
• “What Wavelength Goes With a Color?”, by John M. Kusterer, Atmospheric Science Data Center. 
• “The Health Benefits of Radishes” by Elements4Health.


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Exploring Color—Blue






• Chinese Art by Patricia Bjaaland Welch. Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont.

• Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch delftware 1620-1850 by Jan DaniĆ«l van Dam. Waanders Publishers, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

• Leonardo da Vinci by Martin Kemp, Oxford University Press.
• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. New York.
• The Ceramics of China 5000 B.C. to 1912 A.D. by Gloria and Robert Mascarelli. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Pennsylvania.
• The Color Compendium by Augustine Hope and Margaret Walch. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
• Treasures of China by John Chinnery. Duncan Baird Publishers, London.