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.


3 comments:

  1. Love it!
    We have a wonderful red sculpture at our outdoor sculpture park entitled "The Way" by Alexander Liberman!

    Best,
    Mary C. Nasser
    http://www.marycnasser.com/blog.html

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  2. This is such a fun post! And there's the Split Enz song I See Red.

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  3. Love the posts on color...very fun and interesting! I found this while I was looking for Susan that I used to play golf and tennis with in Seattle...not sure if it is you or not, but interesting blog!
    Lisa
    lj.hunt@frontier.com

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