tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79971244766966489292024-03-12T20:37:58.885-07:00Color in our WorldAll about the use of color by artists, scientists and psychologists.ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-46012563350338532382018-03-02T07:24:00.002-08:002018-03-02T07:24:46.087-08:00The Color Connotations of Purple<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Color Connotations of Purple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The color purple is used by Christian churches during the Lenten period, tying it to the passion of Christ. It is linked both with sobriety and with moderation in general, a symbolism based on the idea that it is midway on the color spectrum between the red of passion and the blue of intellectualism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Roman custom of wearing cooling wreaths of violets at banquets may have influenced this perception. There were Greek precedents, judging by the name given to the quartz gemstone amethyst which literally means “not intoxicated.” Its temperate violet or cool purple hue made it the stone of Catholic bishops.(</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Amethyst Gemstone meaning</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. Crystalline quartz in shades of purple, lilac or mauve is called </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">amethyst</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">stone</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> traditionally worn to guard against drunkenness and to instill a sober mind. The word </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">amethyst</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> comes from the Greek </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">meaning</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> "without drunkenness" and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">amethyst</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is believed to protect one from poison.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Purple brings to mind wealth and pageantry. Purple and violet are considered luxurious and royal shades because of the great cost in ancient days for cloth dyed with scarce seashells along the Mediterranean seacoasts. In some cases, its cost was equivalent to the price of gold.(</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Purple's</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> elite status stems from the rarity and cost of the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">dye</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> originally used to produce it. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Purple</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> fabric used to be </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">so</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> outrageously </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">expensive</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> that only rulers could afford it. The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">dye</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> initially used to make </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">purple</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> came from the Phoenician trading city of Tyre, which is now in modern-day Lebanon.)</span></div>
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A team of Australian scientists has unlocked the mystery of how bees can successfully identify colors across varying light conditions, and it involves three extra eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli. The function of these extra eyes has never been fully understood, but new research discovered each ocelli contains two upwards pointing color receptors that can accurately measure the color of ambient light. This allows bees to better identify the<b> true color</b> of an object and target their flower of choice across a variety of light conditions.</div>
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One of the researchers mapped the neural tracings from the ocelli and discovered that these receptors are connected to the parts of a bee's brain responsible for color perception. The only question remaining was how these two particular color receptors could allow the bees to interpret the entire color spectrum from red to ultraviolet?</div>
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The team built a mathematical model showing that if the ocelli focused on two specific wavelengths, ultraviolet and blue, they could cover most typical light levels a bee would encounter in their natural environment. This model accurately explains why bees cannot successfully interpret flower colors under yellow artificial light and also why bees with blocked ocelli generally forage only in the middle of the day when light conditions are constant.</div>
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This research offers a clever, and simple, solution to achieving color constancy across our camera, robotic and drone systems. By incorporating two small, skyward pointing sensors in a camera to register the color of the ambient light, the researchers suggest that an object's true color could be identified across most light conditions.</div>
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As well as having benefits for general photography, the technique could prove extremely useful in industrial applications, bringing improvements in machine vision that would sort colored objects, such as ripe fruits or mineral-rich sands, to be identified easily across a variety of complex illumination conditions.</div>
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"The strength of this study lies in the combination of modeling, behavioral analysis, and neuro-anatomy," says Professor Marcello Rosa, one of the authors of the study. "It shows how modern, interdisciplinary neuroscience can point to an elegant solution to classical problems in vision."</div>
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The team's study was published in the journal <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/26/1703454114.abstract" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)</em></a>.</div>
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Source: <a href="https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2017/jul/bee-brains-open-way-for-better-cameras-coloured-light" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">RMIT</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/want-a-better-camera-just-copy-bees-and-their-extra-light-sensing-eyes-80385" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Conversation</a></div>
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If you want a smoother, clearer complexion, Jessica Wu, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at USC Medical School and a dermatologist in Los Angeles, encourages you to toss all these fortifying <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Feed Your Face</em> foods into your grocery cart.</div>
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Definitely one of your skin’s best defenses, tomatoes contain a powerful antioxidant called lycopene. While studies have not yet been entirely conclusive, many suggest that lycopene may be responsible for helping to protect the skin against sun damage.</div>
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Lycopene is best absorbed by the body when it has been cooked or processed, so eating tomato sauce, tomato paste, and ketchup is likely to be more effective than just eating raw tomatoes when trying to safeguard your skin against harmful UV rays. Lycopene is also fat soluble, which means that it is absorbed more easily when consumed with fat, such as eggs, avocado, and olive oil.</div>
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Sometimes it gets a bad rap, and even though red meat does contain saturated fat and cholesterol, lean red meat is one of Dr. Wu’s favorite Feed Your Face foods because it’s so high in protein and zinc. In fact, recent studies suggest that red meat may be even better at treating acne than antibiotics.</div>
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To produce collagen, your skin needs the amino acids glycine and proline, and the protein in red meat has the highest concentration of these two amino acids. The mineral zinc is also crucial for collagen production. “It’s an essential cofactor,” says Dr. Wu. “Without enough zinc, it’s difficult for the skin to make collagen. Plus, zinc is a natural anti-inflammatory.” And vegetarians don’t need to miss out. Dr. Wu adds that high concentrations of glycine can also be found in seafood, proline in cottage cheese and cabbage, and zinc in lentils, kidney beans, and raw oysters.</div>
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It’s no secret that green tea is an antioxidant powerhouse. Its strong anti-inflammatory and anti-aging effects are attributed to its high concentration of catechin compounds. Studies have shown that green tea can be used both orally and topically to help protect the skin from sunburns and UV-associated <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/skin-cancer/guide/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005cb7;">skin cancers</a>. Research also suggests that drinking one cup of green tea twice a day over the course of six months may actually reverse sun damage and significantly improve any problems you have with redness and broken capillary veins.</div>
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As long as we’re going green, let’s talk about how these low-calorie beans can help you grow thicker hair and healthier nails. Green beans are a star Feed Your Face food because they’re one of the richest sources of silicon — not to be confused with silicone, which is found in bad lip jobs and breast implants! The USDA has not yet established recommended daily intakes (RDIs) of silicon, but 10 mg per day seems to be adequate for strengthening hair and nails, according to recent studies. Dr. Wu recommends choosing organic green beans, since they retain more silicon from the soil. Don’t like green beans? You can also get your silicon fix from volcanic mineral waters such as Volvic, which contains 14.5 mg per liter.</div>
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Here's the story of how the Statue of Liberty became that iconic green color—and how it was almost reversed.</h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The symbol that quite literally stands, more than any other, for freedom and refuge stands in New York Harbor: the Statue of Liberty. Imagining Lady Liberty immediately creates a mental picture: her massive 305-foot stature; her majestic crown and torch; her bluish-green color. However, it turns out that she was not designed to be green, nor was she always that color.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States in 1885 as a </span>gift from<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> the people of France. She was built over several years out of the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">decidedly non-green material copper (over 30 tons of it!). So how did </span>she<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> become green? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">It has nothing to do with paint (or jealousy). The statue’s green </span>color comes<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> from several chemical reactions. The American Chemical </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Society made a video breaking down each stage of the statue’s </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">chemical transformation. It turns out that the Statue of Liberty </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">actually has been </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.03125em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">multiple </em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">As the name of the material would suggest, the statue was originally a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">bright copper color. However, once she was assembled in New York </span></div>
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harbor<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">, a reaction called oxidation—which is also responsible for rust—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">began. Her copper exterior began to react with the oxygen in the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">That reaction created tenorite, a dark brown-black material. So her </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">copper color got darker before it got lighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">Completing the chemical makeover, sulfuric acid in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">the air (much</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"> of which comes from </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">New York air </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">pollution) reacted with the tenorite and the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">oxidized copper, turning the exterior green. By 1906, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">all traces of copper were gone and the statue was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">the color we know today. However, in the early 1900s,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">Congress collected money for repairs, suggesting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">that the statue </span>be<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"> painted its original copper color—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">but people protested, and the “repairs” never </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">imagine this iconic statue being any other color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">Plus: learn </span><a href="http://www.rd.com/culture/why-is-money-green/1/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a4e9b; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;">why American money is green</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">.</span></div>
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anymore. Green will continue to stand for liberty for generations to come. </div>
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Paint is all around us, but how much do you really think about it? OK, thinking or talking about paint sounds, well, just about as exciting as watching it dry. But there are actually some cool things to know about what you can paint and how to paint it.</div>
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So whether you're just freshening up your white walls or trying something new with an accent color, you should check out these bright tips. We guarantee that after you read this, you won’t think about paint (or painting) the same way again.</div>
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1. Smart paint</h2>
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A lot of institutions, like high schools and prisons, use colors such as taupe for their hallways because it’s known to be soothing (as is a certain shade of <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://www.realtor.com/news/trends/color-pink-calming-effects/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">pink</a>)—but did you know that some colors are thought to make you <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">smarter</em>? It has been hotly debated whether red and blue can actually affect your ability to take tests. A study from the <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2007-01821-008" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Journal of Experimental Psychology</a> showed that red has an adverse effect on, say, SAT performance because it tends to make people anxious and more likely to second-guess themselves. Blue, on the other hand, inspires creative thought, because it’s relaxing and cooling and makes you more attentive to details.</div>
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2. How to paint without removing the hardware</h2>
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If you're spray-painting a piece of furniture, it's kind of tricky to avoid the hinges and locks. Here's a great hack: Simply cover anything you don't want to be painted with a generous layer of petroleum jelly, and spray-paint away. When you’re done, simply rub the coated areas with a paper towel and the paint will come right off.</div>
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3. Chair lift</h2>
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Did you know you can paint upholstered chairs? All you need is acrylic or latex paint, fabric medium, and a few more supplies to transform you latest thrift store find into a one-of-a-kind, statement-making piece of furniture. The miracle material is fabric medium, which keeps the paint from drying stiff. For a thorough breakdown of this project, we love this tutorial from <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/make-and-decorate/upcycling/how-to-paint-fabric-chairs" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">DIY Network</a>. Now nothing is stopping you from having that canary-yellow armchair you’ve always wanted!</div>
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4. Mind the sun</h2>
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When deciding on a paint type, consider how much natural light the room you’re painting is going to experience. The more light a wall gets, the quicker the paint color is going to fade. If you can’t find a UV-resistant paint (these are mostly for exteriors), it’s best to go with the generally <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://www.diynetwork.com/how-to/skills-and-know-how/painting/differences-in-water-based-oil-based-and-latex-paints" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">more durable</a> oil-based paint.</div>
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5. How to reduce drying time</h2>
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As previously mentioned, few things are more boring than watching paint dry—but what if you could <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">speed up</em> the process? Paint dries quickest at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, so if you have to paint when temperatures are less than ideal, it’s a good idea to set your thermostat. Be warned that while higher temps can help paint dry, humidity can undo all that work and actually slow down the process, so check the weather report and plan accordingly.</div>
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6. Don't believe the label</h2>
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Even if you bought them at the same time in the same store from the same guy, no two cans of paint are precisely the same color. The best way to level out the minor differences in shades is to simply mix your cans into one container. If you have two gallons of paint, combine them into one 5-gallon bucket. Once mixed, the subtle differences blend away.</div>
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7. Beware! New paint smell = bad for your health</h2>
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That distinctive scent of a newly painted house is—and we’re sorry to break it to you—really, really toxic. On a typical day, volatile organic compound levels in a home are about two to five times higher than they are outside. But when you paint, those indoor pollution levels could reach up to 1,000 times higher. The good news is that you don't have to vacate your house for a week after painting. <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2008/04/what-are-vocs-in-paint-and-is-more-or-less-of-them-better/index.htm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Consumer Reports</a> announced a few years back that the federal government was regulating VOC content in paint. There are also brands such as <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/05/nad-rules-on-valspar-s-challenge-to-mythic-paint/index.htm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Mythic</a> that boast zero VOCs and an "ultra low odor."</div>
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8. Adhere to the 60-30-10 rule</h2>
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A key rule of thumb for maintaining a balanced color scheme in a room is the trusted interior design equation: 60-30-10. Roughly 60% of your room should be the dominant color (this is generally the wall color). The next 30% should represent a secondary color—accent walls, a painted bookcase, wainscoting, or furniture such as a large-scale sofa. The remaining 10% of the color scheme should be accented with art and accessories.</div>
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<a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="https://www.houzz.com/photos/94346740/Los-Altos-Hills-transitional-living-room-san-francisco" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="334" src="https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/fcf15bf4092f5fa7_8-2731/transitional-living-room.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 704px;" width="500" /></a><a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="https://www.houzz.com/pro/kriste-michelini/kriste-michelini-interiors" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Photo by Kriste Michelini Interiors</a> - <a data-omtag="web:article:content:link" href="https://www.houzz.com/photos/living-room" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">A predominantly beige living room is balanced by a light-blue area rug and green decorative accents.</a></div>
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9. Smart storage</h2>
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For those times when you need to touch up your walls or furniture, keep an extra can of the original paint on hand. To extend the lifespan of your paint, make sure to store at the optimum temperature range of 55 to 90 degrees. Before you store your leftover paint, close the lid really well (use a hammer to make sure it’s firmly sealed), and then flip the can upside down. This will prevent air from getting into the can.</div>
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You can also ditch the metal cans and store paint in separate containers. Just use a funnel to empty the can into an airtight jar.</div>
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10. Chill out</h2>
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Whether you hear a knock at the door or experience arm fatigue, chances are you're going to have to put down your paint roller before you can finish painting the whole room. To keep it from getting all crusty, just wrap the roller in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator. The roller will be ready to go when you're ready to keep chugging along.</div>
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Sharpen those colored pencils, because Humboldt’s first color-in postcards are making their debut just in time for the summer travel season. The idea was born out of a desire to celebrate Humboldt County, while encouraging creativity. Color Me Humboldt products feature illustrations of the county’s landscapes, attractions, flora, and fauna, created specifically to color and decorate.</div>
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Each postcard pack features six illustrated cards printed on thick, high-quality card stock, designed for coloring with a variety of media (pencil, marker, watercolor, crayon). Each pack also includes a set of colored pencils. All materials and packaging are carefully selected with sustainability in mind: compostable packaging; recycled paper with soy based inks; and reused colored pencils from SCRAP Humboldt</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you've run out of time to order these postcards, use pages from a fun coloring book and print them out on cardstock, cut to standard post card size, buy cute postcard stamps, pack colored pencils and a small sharpener and be on your happy way. This could be a project for youngsters to enjoy as they travel. It could cut down on questions such as "Are we there yet?" BBL</span></div>
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Not too long ago, you could look around the metropolitan region and<br />
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Large expanses of glass often reflected (sometimes literally) the<br />
sky — looking like a uniform, fluorescently lighted ceiling. Each new<br />
building appeared to extend this limited palette with more walls of pale boredom.</div>
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That was before the 2000 completion of the Museum of Pop Culture<br />
— or MoPOP — the former Experience Music Project. Whether or not one considers it a top-drawer example of architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Frank Gehry’s</a> prolific<br />
body of international work, the structure created a definite splash<br />
on the local scene.</div>
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Perhaps it broke the unwritten rule of architectural discretion through<br />
the application of vivid colors, as well as sinuous shapes. It just took a<br />
while for the regime change to fully occur.</div>
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As we emerged from the long stretch of depressing weather that broke<br />
records from November onward, we saw that something quite interesting<br />
had happened almost without anyone in Seattle expecting it. With<br />
scaffolding and protective tarps taken down around construction, we<br />
found ourselves seeing colors. Lots of them.</div>
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Along Dexter Avenue, Stone Way, Madison, Seneca and other streets<br />
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colors. And not just token swatches or trim but broad brush strokes that<br />
cover large portions of the exteriors.</div>
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In previous years, a handful of designers played with colors. But the<br />
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Moreover, the specification of colors can be fraught with hazards. What<br />
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Some of the past reluctance to add color to architecture might have<br />
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But now, color is on us almost with a vengeance. Even temporary<br />
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And color has come not just in flat-painted surfaces. It has been infused<br />
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Is your outfit falling flat today? Perhaps not giving you the confidence you want? Well, it’s time to mix things up and add this color to your wardrobe.</div>
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What color? Red.</div>
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A new study has found that both women and men who wear red <b>feel</b> more physically attractive. Apparently, the bold color gives us all a nice little confidence boost.</div>
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The study, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2238/abstract" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #cc3333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">published in the European Journal of Social Psychology,</a> saw researchers from Germany ask 180 university students to wear either a red or a blue shirt. (Side note: the students had no idea what they were being asked.)</div>
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Then, the students checked out their reflections in mirrored cubicles, as well as completing a survey that included questions about how hot they thought they looked.</div>
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The end result: those who wore red rated themselves higher in attractiveness compared those in blue. They also rated themselves higher in sex appeal.</div>
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Researchers did note that introverts who shy away from attention could view themselves differently wearing red. And that attractiveness might not last forever.</div>
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“We need to investigate if and how different personality characteristics interact with the effect,” study author Anne Berthold, a researcher from the University of Zurich, <a href="http://www.psypost.org/2017/06/study-finds-people-wearing-red-view-attractive-49199" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #cc3333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told PsyPost.</a> “Also, it might be possible that the effect disappears when someone wears red every day.”</div>
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Despite the if’s and but’s, we reckon you should test the theory out for yourself.</div>
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Psychology of color: how it can help bring you in the right mood!</h1>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The deepest and truest secrets of colour effect are invisible even to the eye and are beheld by the heart alone”</em></div>
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Isn’t colour just the most wonderful thing? Doesn’t a place look that much nicer when you add a bit of colour?</div>
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Colour can also really influence your mood. And as such you can use it as a tool to influence it. We tend to pick our clothes each morning for the mood that we are in. If I am feeling particularly happy I will normally choose something colourful to wear. And if I”m feeling a bit down, I will probably want to hide a bit from the world and would go for something black.</div>
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<span id="more-10378" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>But what if you did the complete opposite?</div>
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Instead of choosing the color matching the mood that you are in, go for a colour that will enforce the mood that you want to be in.</div>
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Now I know that this can be very hard to do, because if you are feeling depressed the last thing you want do is to appear happy. But if you are determined to not let that depresssive mood get the best of you and rule your day, try to do it anyway.</div>
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Go for something with yellow instead of the all-black outfit. It is very hard to keep feeling depressed or sad when you are wearing yellow. Just like it is very hard to feel depressed if you stand up straight and hold your head up high.</div>
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So let’s have a look at what effect certain colors have on you, so you can pick the right color for the kind of mood you want to be in.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black</span></span></strong></h3>
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Black is the color of authority and power, stability and strength. It is also the color associated with intelligence (think of the black robe you wear at graduation). It’s a somber color sometimes associated with evil. In the western hemisphere black is associated with grieving. Black is a serious color that evokes strong emotions; it is easy to overwhelm people with too much black.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear it to feel powerful or mysterious</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: silver; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">White</span></span></strong></h3>
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For most of the world this is the color associated with purity (wedding dresses); cleanliness (doctors in white coats) and neutrality. In some eastern parts of the world, white is associated with mourning. White is associated with creativity (white boards, blank slates).</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear it for more mental clarity.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gray</span></span></strong></h3>
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Gray is mostly associated with the practical, timeless, middle-of-the-road, solid things in life. Too much gray leads to feeling mostly nothing; but a bit of gray will add that rock solid feeling. Some shades of gray are associated with old age, death, taxes, depression or a lost sense of direction. Silver is an off-shoot of gray and often associated with giving a helping hand and strong character.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear it to feel more solid.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Red</span></span></strong></h3>
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Red is the color of energy. It’s associated with movement and excitement. People surrounded by red find their heart beating a little faster. Red is the symbol of life and, for this reason, it’s the color worn by brides in China. Red is used at holidays that are about love and giving (red roses, Valentines hearts, Christmas, etc.)</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear red when you want to have lots of energy and confidence.</strong></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff99cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pink</span></span></h3>
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Pink is the true color of love . Pink is the most calming of all colors. Think of pink as the color of romance, love, and gentle feelings, to be in the pink is to be soothed.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear pink to feel more loving.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue</span></span></strong></h3>
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Blue is a a calm and restful color. Seeing the color blue actually causes the body to produce chemicals that are calming. However, some shades (or too much blue) can send a cold and uncaring message. Over the ages blue has become associated with steadfastness, dependability, wisdom and loyalty (think of the many blue uniforms). People tend to be more productive in a blue room because they are calm and focused on the task at hand.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blue is good to use when you want to calm yourself or be more intuitive.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Green</span></span></strong></h3>
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The color of growth, nature, and money. A calming color also that’s very pleasing to the senses. Dark forest green is associated with terms like conservative, masculine and wealth. Hospitals use light green rooms because they too are found to be calming to patients. It is also the color associated with envy, good luck, generosity and fertility. It is the traditional color of peace, harmony, comfortable nurturing, support and well paced energy.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Use green to feel more relaxed and ease your anxiety. If offers a sense of renewal and harmony.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yellow</span></span></strong></h3>
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Cheerful yellow is the color of the sun, associated with laughter, happiness and good times. A person surrounded by yellow feels optimistic because the brain actually releases more seratonin (feel good chemical in the brain) when around this color. It is the color associated with optimism. It has the power to speed up our metabolism and bring out some creative thoughts. Some shades of yellow are associated with cowardice; but the more golden shades with the promise of better times.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear yellow to feel more optimistic, mentally stimulated and creative.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Orange</span></span></strong></h3>
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The most flamboyant color on the planet! It’s the color most associated with fun times, happy and energetic days, warmth and organic products. It is also associated with ambition. There is nothing even remotely calm associated with this color. Orange is associated with a new dawn in attitude.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Use orange to stimulate activity and socialization.</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #666699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Purple</span></span></strong></h3>
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Purple is royalty. A mysterious color, purple is associated with both nobility and spirituality. It stimulates the brain activity used in problem solving. However, when overused it is associated with putting on airs and being artificial. Use purple most carefully to lend an air of mystery, wisdom, and respect.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wear it to feel spiritual, calm and creative</strong></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #330000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Brown</span></span></strong></h3>
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This color is most associated with reliability, stability, and friendship. It’s the color of the earth itself. It is also associated with things being natural or organic. In India, however, it is the color of mourning.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Use it when you want to feel wholesome and stable.</strong></div>
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Think of colour as another tool you can use to influence how you feel. When used effectively it can really brighten up your day.</div>
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“Colour is a means of exerting a direct influence on the soul. Colour is a keyboard, the eyes, the hammers and the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another purposively to cause vibrations in the soul.”</div>
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Color-changing tattoos aim to monitor blood sugar, other health stats</h1>
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MIT researchers are in the early stages of developing biosensing tattoo inks with the hope that one day they might help monitor blood sugar levels and other health data.</div>
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For many <span class="link"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/type-2-diabetes-early-symptoms-easy-to-miss/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">people with diabetes</a></span>, keeping tabs on blood sugar every day is expensive, time-consuming and invasive, but researchers at MIT and Harvard are exploring a creative new approach that could one day help make things easier: biosensing <span class="link"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tattoos-fine-art-for-the-masses/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tattoos</a></span>.</div>
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The scientists have developed special tattoo ink that contains chemicals that can sense <span class="link"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/foods-non-drug-ways-to-control-blood-sugar-type-2-diabetes/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">blood sugar levels</a></span>, pH, and sodium. When blood sugar goes up, for example, the glucose sensing ink changes from blue to brown. When a person's salt levels increase, the sodium sensing ink becomes a more vibrant green under UV light. When alkaline levels shifts, a pH sensor changes from purple to pink.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/d-Abyss/overview/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">DermalAbyss</a> ink – still in what scientists call the "proof-of-concept" stage – alters its hues in response to changes in the fluids inside a person's body, MIT Media Lab researcher Xin Liu told CBS News. It literally becomes an interactive display.</div>
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"People with diabetes email us and say, 'I want to try it out,'" Liu said. </div>
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But the technology is still in the very early research stage, Liu points out, and has only been tested on pig skin samples, not living, breathing animals – let alone humans. Liu said there are a lot of unknowns in testing it on living skin, including questions about allergies, accuracy, and durability.For someone with <span class="link"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sugar-can-too-much-cause-type-2-diabetes/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">diabetes</a></span> who has to prick their finger multiple times a day to test their blood sugar level, or who wears pricey blood glucose monitoring equipment that can be cumbersome during activities like swimming, glancing down at a tattoo to check if blood sugar has dropped or spiked could be a lower-maintenance approach to health monitoring.</div>
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"It will take a long time for anything practical to go to market, but it [the technology] evokes imaginations and opens up possibilities," said Liu.</div>
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For some, the idea of a decorative new tattoo that reflects your body chemistry may be appealing. But mostly, the scientists say the goal is to make monitoring of health data easier, safer and as accurate as possible. </div>
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They look at location, scrutinize floor plans and discuss features of their new home. But often, something as simple as paint color can help make or break a deal, as well as sway home prices, according to a new report.</div>
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<a class="js-newsleads" data-ct="APT:bbm_profile_link" data-id="401269" href="http://companies.bizjournals.com/profile/zillow-group/6105162/?mkt=houston" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-left-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-right-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-top-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); box-sizing: border-box; color: #b82c2e; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out, border-color 0.1s ease-out;">Zillow</a> Inc. (Nasdaq: Z) <a href="https://www.zillow.com/blog/blue-kitchens-sell-for-more-216631/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-left-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-right-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); border-top-color: rgba(184, 44, 46, 0.25); box-sizing: border-box; color: #b82c2e; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out, border-color 0.1s ease-out;" target="_blank">recently released its 2017 paint color analysis report</a>, which looked at more than 32,000 photos from homes sold across the country. The Seattle-based online real estate firm found that certain paint colors can help sell a home for more money while other colors can take a hit on the sale price.</div>
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In Houston, pink is a popular color choice for bedrooms, particularly kid’s rooms. In fact, pink bedrooms are most common in the Bayou City, according to Zillow.</div>
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However, pink bedrooms can often negatively impact a home’s sale price. On average, homes with pink bedrooms sold for about $208 less than homes with more neutral colors, according to Zillow.</div>
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On the other hand, homes with light blue bedrooms sold on average for about $1,856 more than homes with other colors, according to Zillow.</div>
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Some color choices can sway home prices a lot. A light powder blue or periwinkle-colored bathroom can fetch $5,440 more on a home, while an off-white or eggshell white-colored bathroom can subtract $4,035 from a home's sale price, according to Zillow.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here are the colors to choose and to avoid when selling a house, according to Zillow:</em></span></div>
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Kitchen:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Blue — Homes with a light blue to soft gray-blue kitchen can sell on average for $1,809 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> Yellow — Homes with a straw yellow to marigold kitchen can sell on average for $820 less</li>
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Bathroom:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Blue/Purple — Homes with light powder blue to periwinkle bathrooms can sell on average for $5,440 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> White — Homes with off-white or eggshell white bathrooms can sell on average for $4,035 less</li>
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Bedroom:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Blue — Homes with light cerulean to cadet blue bedrooms can sell on average for $1,856 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> Pink — Homes with light pink to antique rose bedrooms can sell on average for $208 less</li>
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Dining room:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Blue — Homes with a slate blue to pale gray-blue, or navy blue with white shiplap dining room can sell on average for $1,926 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> Red — Homes with a brick red, terracotta or copper red dining room can sell on average for $2,031 less</li>
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Living room:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Brown — Homes with a light beige, pale taupe or oatmeal living room can sell on average for $1,809 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> Blue — Homes with a pastel gray, pale silver to light periwinkle blue living room can sell on average for $820 less</li>
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Home exterior:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Gray/Brown — Homes with a mix of gray and beige, or “greige,” exterior can sell on average for $1,526 more</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin-top: 0.7em; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Don’t:</span> Brown — Homes with a medium brown, taupe or stucco exterior can sell on average for $1,970 less</li>
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Front door:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; position: relative;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do:</span> Gray/Blue — Homes with a navy blue to dark gray or charcoal front door can sell on average for $1,514 more</li>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paul Takahashi covers residential and multifamily commercial real estate, as well as education, for the Houston Business Journal.</em></blockquote>
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With genetically engineered color vision, gut-dwelling <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCHEMBIO.2390" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ff4e00; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.17s;">bacteria transform into vibrant artists</a>—though <b>their work is a bit derivative</b><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</em></div>
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In a study published in <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nature Chemical Biology</em>, MIT researchers wired <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Escherichia coli</em> with a synthetic network of 18 genes that allows them to sense and respond to red, green, and blue. Once excited by the colors, the genetic circuitry activates and inspires the bacteria to produce corresponding pigments or fluorescent proteins. Mats of microbes then turn their petri dishes into canvases, creating vivid replicas of patterns and artwork.</div>
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Right now, the bright bacteria simply demonstrate how far synthetic biologists have come in genetic tinkering. But, in the future, the researchers, led by MIT’s Christopher Voigt, hope that the RGB microbes could find a variety of applications. “Colored light offers many channels to pattern cells to build tissues or materials, control cells at a distance, or serve as a means of communication between electronic and biological systems,” Voigt and his colleagues write.</div>
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Colored images (inset), including this lizard pattern, were projected onto plates of bacteria containing the RGB system.</div>
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Researchers tested individual color detection using a Mario image. Here, they're testing out the red light detecting system.</div>
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A green Mario shows the green system working.</div>
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And a blue Mario test.</div>
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The fruit, zoomed in and auto-contrasted in Photoshop. The scale bar is 1 cm.</div>
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An additional RGB plate, enhanced a little with Photoshop.</div>
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The fluorescent RGB system. (a) Color mask used to generate images. (b) Bright field view of the image. (c) Overlay of RFP, GFP, and BFP channels in false color. (d-f) Grayscale images of the RFP (d), GFP (e), and BFP (f) fluorescence channels. In the grayscale images (d,e,f), a lighter pixel indicates greater fluorescence in the given channel. The scale bars are 1 cm.</div>
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In 2005, the researchers came up with a four-gene system that allowed microbes to recreate black-and-white images. In the new study, they go all-out, using the 18 genes plus a collection of genetic tricks, tools, and programming strategies.</div>
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The resulting rigged germs contain biological light sensors—which are found in some plants, fungi, and cyanobacteria. In the system, red light is sensed by a hybrid kinase sensitive to 705nm wavelength light. Green is picked up by a cyanobacteria sensor that flicks on with wavelengths at 535nm. And blue is detected with another hybrid kinase sensitive to a wavelength of 470nm.</div>
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With the light switches flipped, genetic machinery fires up and begins decoding a meticulously engineered string of genes. This produces either pigments or fluorescent proteins.</div>
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The researchers spread the RGB bacteria across agarose plates—dishes containing bacteria food in a gel. Then, they projected color images onto the plates for 18 hours, allowing the bacteria to create their colorful replicas.</div>
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“Fully harnessing the spectral range of light sensors simultaneously in individual cells provides many knobs by which cells can be controlled rapidly and spatially and from afar,” the authors conclude.<br />
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They reached their conclusion based on a simple color identification test, where 20 respondents identified 330 colored chips by name. If a language had six words, they were always black, white, red, green, yellow, and blue. If it had four terms, they were always black, white, red, and then either green or yellow. If it had only three, they were always black, white, and red, and so on.</div>
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The theory was revolutionary, and it shaped our understanding of how color terminologies emerge. But the idea comes with a few caveats, since all languages do not treat colors the same way grammatically as English does.</div>
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Angelica Dass, a Brazilian artist who lives in Spain, poses at the entrance to her exhibition "Humanae," on view at the Health Museum through Sept. 5.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The piece:</strong> "Humanae"</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The artist:</strong> Angelica Dass</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where:</strong> The Health Museum, Houston, Texas, through Sept. 5</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why:</strong> What looks like a playground of photographic building blocks turns out to be</div>
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a thoughtful exercise in illustrating the beauty of human diversity.</div>
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The chromatic scale of more than 1,800 "spot" colors produced by Pantone have </div>
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long been used by people who are picky about getting gradations of color perfect. </div>
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The fashion design industry names a "Pantone color of the year" annually that </div>
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drives trends across home design, as well.</div>
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But Brazilian activist and artist Angelica Dass has used a Pantone palette to create </div>
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more than 4,000 portraits across 17 countries and 26 cities to illustrate that there's </div>
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no such thing as black and white in the human race. Everyone falls somewhere in </div>
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the warm, earth-toned browns, creams and pinks.</div>
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The Health Museum's installation from her ongoing "Humanae" project fills one </div>
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gallery with a playground-inspired stack of wooden cubes containing 250 portraits, </div>
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representing the scope of colors she has encountered and all the cities she has </div>
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visited.</div>
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Dass photographs each volunteer subject in even light, with bare shoulders, then </div>
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matches an 11-pixel-by-11-pixel spot from the middle of their noses to a Pantone </div>
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color and drops the portrait into a block of that color.</div>
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Only two faces are a constant in her installations: Her father's, which is brown, and her grandmother's, which has a pinkish glow.</div>
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Dass launched "Humanae" about five years ago, thinking about the color of her family. She started with portraits of herself and her husband, a blonde Spaniard.</div>
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"As you can see, I am brown with curly hair. But I'm very brown to be white. Because I am white, too," she said. "And I'm very brown to be a native Brazilian. I'm very proud to be who I am." (For the record, she's Pantone 75-22 c.)</div>
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Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Dass always felt the frustration of pinkish Crayolas labeled "flesh" or "skin." When she was older, taking a cousin to a fancy French school, people treated her as if she must have been a nanny or servant.</div>
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Brazil's long history of black slavery did not end until 1888. "The ones who were the slaves in the 1890s continued to be servants in the 1900s," she said. "Now people like me who have jumped a level in society have an opportunity to talk about it." Her father was an engineer; her mother, a teacher.</div>
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Dass attended art school to become a costume and set designer, then moved to Madrid 12 years ago and earned a graduate degree in photography.</div>
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"Humanae" crosses the boundaries between art and activism. With each city she visits, Dass usually sets up a studio to keep adding to the portraits. And her residencies often include community workshops. (At a city on the border of Switzerland and Italy where many refugees pass through, her temporary studio offered classes in Italian as part of its programming.)</div>
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Museum settings are fine and important, but she's happiest when "Humanae" gets staged outdoors. It has taken many forms, even covering the sides of buildings. "I really want, through these photos, to make noise in the streets," she said.</div>
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Colors can conjure up a lot of associations, but apparently only one specific hue has the power to "minimize appeal" and "maximize perceived harm." That's right —</div>
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researchers pinpointed the world's ugliest color, and it's been lovingly </div>
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described as "dirty," "tar," and even "death," just to name a few associations. </div>
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sewage-tinged hue actually has an important mission. Out of the entire </div>
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rainbow, experts chose the green-brown shade to discourage smoking. </div>
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And one look at this swatch will convince you of its habit-breaking abilities. </div>
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It's not for the faint of heart, but here it is:</div>
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opposite. Every carton had to look as <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/does-this-colour-turn-you-off-20120816-24bf4.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0abab5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">unappealing as possible</a>. </div>
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to medium olive's "classy" associations.</div>
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After finding a clear winner (or loser, in this case), the government first </div>
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announced the hue as "olive green." But after an urgent letter from the</div>
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Australian Olive Association, they changed the nickname "drab dark brown" </div>
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— no hard feelings, olives?</div>
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Thanks to Australia's colorful breakthrough, other governments are also </div>
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adopting the shade. <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/ireland-passes-plain-packaging-bill-cigarettes-smoking-tobacco" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0abab5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Ireland</a>, the <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/room-decorating/colors/news/a6294/ugliest-color-in-the-world/opaque%20couch%C3%A9" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0abab5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">United Kingdom</a>, and <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/18/france-votes-for-plain-cigarette-packaging-from-2016" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0abab5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">France</a> recently </div>
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passed "plain packaging" laws of their own, with mock-ups featuring the </div>
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same exact hue. Perhaps opaque couché might get a better reputation for </div>
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all the lives it could possibly help save. </div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lower-class and poorer women would not have had the means to hire staff. They would have dealt with all aspects of their appearance and the running of the household themselves. </em></div>
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<br />The mistress would usually refer to her lady’s maid using her surname, but all the servants of the household would call the lady’s maid “Miss”. The lady’s maid would refer to her mistress as “Milady”.The lady’s maid was a personal servant employed by the mistress of the house. She would report directly to, and only to, her mistress.</div>
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It was a paid position, one that came with perks, and was a more senior/head servant position, like the housekeeper, butler or head gardener – an “above stairs” position that was looked upon with relative respect. No uniform was worn (unlike the lower servants), but simple, clean and neat attire was expected.</div>
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As well as receiving a wage, the lady’s maid would also have her own room, full board, accompany her mistress on any travels (both at home and overseas), and receive her mistress’s cast off clothes to do with as they pleased (e.g. sell or wear).</div>
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A good lady’s maid was cheerful, honest, discrete, organised and obedient. She had to possess many skills, including a good standard of reading and writing, hairdressing, dressmaking, needlework, millinery and cosmetic knowledge.</div>
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The lady’s maid was the female equivalent of the valet – the manservant to the gentleman of the house. A royal household, or one with substantial wealth, would have employed the services of several personal attendants.</div>
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Hairdressing</h3>
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One of the most important parts of the lady’s maid’s duties would be the washing, brushing, trimming and styling of her mistress’s hair.</div>
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Though rich women could employ the regular services of a hairdresser, the lady’s maid would be expected to be proficient in hairdressing between appointments. Training may be provided for those who needed it, or the lady’s maid could organize lessons for herself, and keeping up with the latest hair fashions was important.</div>
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Hair fashion was extremely important for the mistress of the house, and her hairstyle could be changed several times during the day, from an appropriate morning or day styles to something more elaborate for evening functions.</div>
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The lady’s maid would also keep the brushes and combs clean, using appropriate cleaning methods to ensure the items were not damaged in the process. Until plastics became more commonplace in the early 20th century, hair accessories and dressing items would be made from various materials, including bone, tortoiseshell, metal, horn, leather and wood – all of which needed careful handling. Often, the maid would save the mistresses hair taken from brushes in a special container. Later, these could be made into "rats" or "squirrels" to boost fullness of styles worn for special occassions.</div>
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Any false hair or “transformations” (wigs) that were used (be they in fashion or used more discretely) would also be under the care of the lady’s maid. Imagine the inventory of Queen Marie Antoinette's ornate wigs.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For more informaton, see </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Book of Household Management</em><span style="font-style: inherit;"> (1861) by Mrs Beeton on the duties of a Victorian lady’s maid</span></div>
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As with hairdressing, the lady’s maid would deal with all aspects of preparing her mistress’s toilet, including drawing a bath and organizing hot water for washing.</div>
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She would make or procure all the cosmetics required by her mistress. She would deal with the perfumers and suppliers, and would have recipes for making hair washes and pomades.</div>
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Wardrobe</h3>
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<br />She would maintain her mistress’s entire wardrobe, everything from dresses and shoes to undergarments, hats, and gloves. This would include removing stains, brushing off any dirt, ironing, darning, mending and altering garments as needed. She would need to know how to deal with different materials and jewelry, and how to wash fine linens, silks and lace.She would lay out the clothing and accessories required during the day for the all activities taking place (e.g. riding, walking, hunting, driving, any evening events, and nightwear).</div>
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The lady’s maid may also have made dresses for her mistress, procuring all materials with the suppliers. Keeping abreast of the latest fashions and accessories would be advisable.</div>
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The lady’s maid would keep her mistress’s personal rooms and possessions in good order, keeping things clean, and tidying away any items left out by the mistress.</div>
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The lady’s maid would also keep a list of items that needed replacing or purchasing, pack for any overnight journeys, empty the chamber pot and bring her mistress breakfast in her room.</div>
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Other tasks would include attending to fresh flowers, candles and lamps. Attending to the mistress’s pets, such as walking dogs, would also fall to the lady’s maid.</div>
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Other household duties such as preparing meals, fire lighting and general laundry may be performed by other servants, should the household have the means to employ a larger staff. If so, the lady’s maid would oversee the tasks to ensure they are carried out proficiently, though she was not in charge of those servants.</div>
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The lady’s maid was independent of the other servants – reporting solely to her mistress.</div>
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Lady-in-Waiting</h3>
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The Countess of Airlie, the lady-in-waiting of Queen Mary</div>
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A lady-in-waiting was a personal female assistant at a court (royal or feudal), attending on a queen, princess or other high-ranking noblewoman.</div>
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Whether she received monetary compensation for her services or not, the lady-in-waiting was considered to be more of a companion to her mistress, rather than as a servant, and was often a noblewoman herself, from a “good family”, but of a lower social standing than her mistress.</div>
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It was a prestigious position to be at court attending to royalty, and often afforded the lady-in-waiting privileges and enhanced marriage prospects.</div>
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Ladies-in-waiting did not perform menial tasks – these were carried out by servants. Duties varied from court to court, and the requirements of the individual mistress, but generally a lady-in-waiting would need to be proficient in a wide range of skills, including:</div>
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Quite a variety of skills and personal attributes needed!</div>
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A woman may have been able to select her own ladies; however, even when she seemingly had free choice, her choices were usually heavily influenced by those around her, including her husband, parents, and even the king (or his ministers).</div>
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<b>Notable ladies-in-waiting include Anne Boleyn (to Queen Katherine of Aragon), Jane Seymour (to Queen Anne Boleyn), and Catherine Howard (to Anne of Cleves) – all of whom became Queen Consort to Henry VIII.</b></div>
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Lady’s Companion</h3>
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A lady’s companion was similar to a lady-in-waiting, but it was always a paid position and was considered higher in status than the lady’s maid.</div>
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The woman employed as a companion would be a woman of high social standing (similar to that of her mistress), who needed the financial benefits of a paying position.</div>
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A lady’s companion was not regarded as a servant, and lived in the family’s quarters (rather than with the servants).</div>
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Until around the mid-20th century, many upper- and middle-class women spent a lot of time at home, so a lady’s companion was employed to provide conversation and company, as well as help entertaining guests and give directions to servants, just as the lady of the house would.</div>
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The lady’s companion has become obsolete in most developed countries, as women no longer spend their day at home. Also, the work opportunities that emerged for women during both world wars gave them far more employment choices.</div>
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Maids of Honor</h3>
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Maids of honor were junior, and often younger, attendants of a queen in royal households, especially those of England and later of the United Kingdom. A maid of honor would be a maiden (i.e. unmarried) and the role was in preparation of eventually being a lady-in-waiting.</div>
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<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_381063" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; width: 720px;"><br /><img alt="" class="wp-image-381063 size-medium" height="477" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" src="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_-720x477.jpg" srcset="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_-720x477.jpg 720w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_-600x398.jpg 600w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_-1080x716.jpg 1080w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_-360x239.jpg 360w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8326.pr_.jpg 1400w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin-left: -60px; max-width: calc(100% + 60px) !important; vertical-align: middle; width: calc(100% + 60px) !important;" width="720" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;">Sebastiano del Piombo, “The Judgement of Solomon” (c. 1506-9) tempera (lower layers) and oil on canvas, traces of gold leaf (in half-dome) 208 x 318 cm, Kingston Lacy, the Bankes Collection (National Trust) (© National Trust images by Derrick E. Witty)</figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">LONDON — It is fair to say</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastiano-del-Piombo" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">Sebastiano del Piombo</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">is not the first name that springs to mind when thinking of High Renaissance Italy — specifically the artistic hub of Rome during the early 16th century. That role goes to</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">Michelangelo</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">, then working on the immortally iconic Sistine Chapel. Considering that the new exhibition,</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/michelangelo-sebastiano-the-credit-suisse-exhibition" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Michelangelo and Sebastiano</em></a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">, in London’s</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">National Gallery</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">promises in its press release the “first ever exhibition devoted to the creative partnership” between these two artists, and thinking of this year’s earlier</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beyond-caravaggio" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">Caravaggio show</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">remarkable for its lightness on Carvaggio’s actual paintings, one’s immediate dread is that Michelangelo’s ticket-selling name has been shoehorned into a study seeking to elevate an obscure contemporary of his. How delightful it is then that the show methodically and academically does what it says on the tin: offer compelling instances of collaboration, consistently demonstrated with convincing examples, and reveal the twists and turns of a 25-year friendship and artistic relationship. A happy bonus is how this survey paints an image of a deliciously Machiavellian art world in Rome — all scheming competition and heated rivalry.</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_381139" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 20px; margin: 2rem auto; max-width: 100%; width: 720px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-381139 size-medium" height="752" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" src="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr-720x752.jpg" srcset="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr-720x752.jpg 720w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr-600x627.jpg 600w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr-1080x1128.jpg 1080w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr-360x376.jpg 360w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/N-0790-00-000119-pr.jpg 1340w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin-left: -60px; max-width: calc(100% + 60px) !important; vertical-align: middle; width: calc(100% + 60px) !important;" width="720" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;">Michelangelo “The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb)” (c. 1500-1) oil on poplar, 161.7 x 149.9 cm (© The National Gallery, London)</figcaption></figure><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
As such, it quickly becomes clear that curator Matthias Wivel is not out to champion del Piombo as an unsung master. Throughout the show, his work is shown to be decidedly clunky and lacking in comparison to the finesse and genius virtuosity of Michelangelo. Beginning with the Venetian-trained del Piombo’s arrival in Rome, the focus is exploration of the technical differences between the two artists within the context of fiercely competitive art patronage in Rome. We are thus invited to compare the working method behind Michelangelo’s “Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels” (c. 1497) — its unfinished state revealing meticulously exact linear planning, green coloring of the dead flesh, and a piecemeal approach regarding covering the canvas surface — with del Piombo’s also unfinished “Judgement of Solomon” (c. 1506–09). With its underdrawing clearly showing hesitancy and a late-stage change in composition characteristic of an improvisatory way of working, it contrasts with Michelangelo’s determined precision. Del Piombo’s preference for an overall painterly fuzziness that evokes mood and atmosphere is consistent with the Venetian school of painting. Elsewhere, del Piombo’s Saints Bartholomew and Sebastian (c. 1510–11) from the doors of <a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/annienc/2012/10/san_bartolomeo.html" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">the Church of San Bartolomeo</a> in Venice, similarly show a kind of all-over sfumato that fuzzes outlines, giving a murky, moody tone. In his paintings there is none of the distinguishing dynamism of the Florentine Michelangelo’s solid figures and strong composition.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_381072" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 2rem 2rem 2rem -60px; max-width: 100%; width: 360px;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-size: 20px; height: auto !important; width: 360px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-381072 size-Small" height="467" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" src="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8962.pr-Copy-360x467.jpg" srcset="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8962.pr-Copy-360x467.jpg 360w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8962.pr-Copy-600x778.jpg 600w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8962.pr-Copy-720x933.jpg 720w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X8962.pr-Copy.jpg 1080w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 360px;" width="360" /></span><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;">Sebastiano del Piombo “The Visitation” (1518-19) oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 168 × 132 cm Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, Paris (© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) by Hervé Lewandowski)</figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This technical introduction to the two artists in the exhibition makes the story that del Piomobow as actively promoted </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">by Michelangelo as competition against his “detested” rival Raphael, all the more compelling. In an era of prodigious art commissioning by the ruling religious and political elite (most famously, the powerful Medici family), a highly cynical scene emerges in which del Piomobo, specializing in oil painting (tempera being the more common medium), is championed by Michelangelo specifically as a challenger to the city’s only other big oil painter,</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: xx-large; letter-spacing: 0.01em; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">Raphael</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">. The National Gallery makes a convincing case of del Piomobow seeing himself as being in direct competition with <b>the famed colorist skills of Raphael via a progression of works showing del Piomobow’s increasing tendency away from murky painting towards pure brilliant color.</b> More juicy illustration of the two artists’ devious machinations in pursuit of patronage comes with the display of their correspondence: del Piombo says to Michelangelo in 1519, having just finished his Raising of Lazarus, “I beg you to persuade Messer Domennico [Boninsegni] to have the frame gilded in Rome, and to leave me to arrange the gilding, because I want to make the Cardinal realize that Raphael is robbing the Pope of at least 3 ducats a day for gilding .” </span></figcaption><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Similarly, in 1520 following Raphael’s death, Michelangelo writes to Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena persuading him to take on Sebastiano to “share in the work at the Palace, now that Raphael is dead,” humbling adding “You are always granting favors to men of esteem; I beg your Lordship to try out [the favor] with me.”</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_381069" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-size: 20px; margin: 2rem auto; max-width: 100%; width: 720px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-381069 size-medium" height="1014" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" src="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X9026.pr_-720x1014.jpg" srcset="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X9026.pr_-720x1014.jpg 720w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X9026.pr_-600x845.jpg 600w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X9026.pr_-360x507.jpg 360w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Michelangelo-Sebastiano-X9026.pr_.jpg 994w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin-left: -60px; max-width: calc(100% + 60px) !important; vertical-align: middle; width: calc(100% + 60px) !important;" width="720" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.7em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5rem;">After Michelangelo “Pietà” (1975) (copy after “Pietà” (1497-1500) St Peter’s, Vatican City) plaster cast from five piece moulds, with wood and iron armature, 174 x 195 cm, Vatican Museums, Vatican City (© Photo Vatican Museums)</figcaption></figure><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
In terms of concrete art historical evidence, the show works brilliantly with a methodical presentation of clear examples of the cross-pollination of ideas and designs between the two artists. The Vatican museums have loaned the Gallery a 1975 plaster cast of Michelangelo’s “Pietà” of 1497–1500, shown opposite del Piombo’s Pietà, or “Lamentation over the Dead Christ” (c. 1512–16). (Enjoy it — this is the closest you’ll get to the sculpture; the real thing should never leave its bulletproof case at St. Peter’s cathedral in Rome.) Each piece has its monumental, centrally positioned Virgin arranged to be perpendicular to the horizontal Christ, yet del Piombo makes innovative changes by including a nocturnal setting. More thrilling is the adjacent drawing by Michelangelo: a study of hands (among other bits and bobs), which is placed directly in the line of sight of the Virgin’s hands in del Piombo’s “Lamentation.” So displayed, it’s extremely hard to defy the argument that the former was a preparatory drawing for the latter. If this isn’t exciting enough, on the back of the “Lamentation” panel are sketches the National posits as studies consistent with designs in the Sistine Chapel; suggesting Michelangelo used this panel to sketch out designs and ideas eventually used there.</div>
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The same presentation occurs again for two main del Piombo showpieces, demonstrating a working relationship in which del Piombo blended into his oil painting drawings provided by Michelangelo. The near four-meter-tall “Raising of Lazarus” (1517–1519) — apparently del Piombo’s answer to Raphael’s “Transfiguration” (1516-20) — is surrounded by supporting drawings. Sensationally, del Piombo’s Borgherini Chapel in Rome <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/372727/how-michelangelo-and-sebastianos-roman-chapel-was-recreated-in-london/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(145, 215, 248); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;">has been reconstructed here</a> using state of the art printing technology to add visual heft to the translation of Michelangelo’s preparatory drawings.</div>
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The rigorous, academic method of display absolutely makes this show. It is undeniable, looking at the key examples in the “Lamentation” and “Raising of Lazarus,” that there is little to distinguish del Piombo as a key Renaissance presence. The latter piece has been in the National’s collection since 1824, yet for all its scale and vibrant color it somehow still feels uninspiring and workman-like. That del Piombo was not a Renaissance master of the level of Michelangelo is confirmed in the final room covering their parting of ways after 1536. </div>
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ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-91552272489211083542017-05-17T16:04:00.000-07:002017-05-17T16:04:00.182-07:00Art Nouveau Has Global Influences<h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: "Droid Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Art Nouveau is a style of art that appeared in Europe during the late 19th century, though it's influence is global and continuous. The artistic style, which takes its name from the French, literally means "new art" and is characterized by the use of organic shapes and dramatic, curving lines that encompass many forms of art including paintings, glassware, furniture, and architecture. Many of its themes are taken from nature, though presented quite abstractly, and includes plants, flowers, and naturally curved lines. Some famous artists for this style include Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Malory, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This stylistic choice was eventually replaced in the twentieth century, but its influence can still be seen in Europe and other parts of the world.</div>
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Besides nature, the Art Nouveau style also gleans inspiration from High Victorian, Roccoco, and Japanese art; in addition, this artistic style has affinities with the contemporary Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolism, and Arts and Crafts styles. The 19th century artistic style was succeeded in the 20th century by the emergent Art Deco style, which incorporated more geometrical shapes and had an even more stylized appearance; however, Art Nouveau still holds somewhat of an influence in certain decorative arts, especially jewelry. Art Nouveau had a few revivals throughout the Western world in the early 20th century, notably the artistic style known as <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Jugendstil</em> in Germany and Scandinavia.</div>
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Commonly found in architecture and design, the art nouveau style can be seen in many of the world's cities, and perhaps most famously in the Parisian Metro stations. Many of the metro stations have <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cast-iron.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">cast iron</a> supports that resemble plant stems on the exterior portions of the buildings, and others have detailed glass canopies designed in the "new art" style. While there were glass canopies designed in this artistic style, smaller glassware were created as well. This lead to jewelry being created in the new art style, which is still used today for jewelry design. Art Nouveau also frequently appeared in paintings, illustrations, and advertisements of the 19th century, as well as many furniture pieces.</div>
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Rennie <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mackintosh.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Mackintosh</a> was a major Art Nouveau architect and furniture designer who worked in Scotland and England, and his work provides classic examples of the artistic style. Parisians Rene Lalique and Emile Galle, and the American designer <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-louis-comfort-tiffany.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Louis Comfort Tiffany</a> are among the artists who helped extend the style to jewelry and various decorative arts. Aubrey Beardsley famously illustrated Oscar Wilde's play <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Salome</em>, Thomas Malory's <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Le Morte D'Arthur</em>, and the periodical <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">The Yellow Book</em>.</div>
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In the category of painters, Alphonse Mucha was a Czech <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-painter.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">painter</a> best remembered for his "new art" poster designs, and Gustav Klimt was a Viennese painter and <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-muralist-do.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">muralist</a> noted for his heavy use of gold and <a href="http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-mosaic.htm" style="color: #24364f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">mosaic</a>-like designs. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec became famous for his Moulin Rouge, Art Nouveau style, while Edvard Munch, a Norwegian painter, produced some of the darkest examples of the artistic style in his <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px;">Frieze of Life</em> series of paintings.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">These findings and more are revealed in the National Painting Week Color Psychology Study by Harris Poll on behalf of Sherwin-Williams. The study included an online survey and analysis of social media posts that include colors and areas of a home. To celebrate</span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> National Painting Week, May 19–29</span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">, Sherwin-Williams is showing the impact of color by refreshing hundreds of community organizations, sharing these new research findings and providing insights from color psychologist Dr. </span><span class="xn-person" style="font-size: 14px;">Sally Augustin</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and its own color expert, </span><span class="xn-person" style="font-size: 14px;">Sue Wadden</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">. </span></div>
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"Homeowners shouldn't stress when trying new colors, and many will likely find it is a worthwhile endeavor. Vibrant colors can have positive psychological effects. Emerald greens can be energizing, seeing red can give us a boost of strength and yellow can provide a sense of warmth," said Dr. Augustin, principal at Design with Science, a cognitive science-based design consultation firm.</div>
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Blue might be a good choice for homeowners considering more vibrant colors, with 62 percent of Americans selecting blue as one of the colors they like most. The strong preference for blue is consistent across genders, regions and age. Many Americans also said they associate blue with calmness (45 percent).</div>
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"In the case of blue, it's often subconsciously linked to trust, dependability, and competence and can also be associated with rest and provide a cooling sensation – making it a great choice for a bedroom or office," said Dr. Augustin.</div>
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The color black is the second-most popular color (32 percent), followed by red (31 percent).</div>
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Other key insights from the report, which also examined upcoming painting plans, include:</div>
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<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">The majority of Americans (58 percent) say that more vibrant colors should be used throughout the home rather than just neutral tones.</li>
<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">Millennials<sup>1 </sup>welcome extra help when it comes to choosing a color for their space. More than half (52 percent) agreed that they would rather get professional help to choose paint colors than professional help when choosing clothing.</li>
<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">Generations see green differently. Millennials are more likely than older generations to most associate the color with energy (33 percent vs. 24 percent of Gen Xers<sup>2 </sup>and boomers<sup>3</sup>). Baby boomers are more likely than millennials to associate green with calmness (26 percent vs. 20 percent).</li>
<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">Forty-two percent of Americans associate yellow with happiness; men are more than twice as likely as women (35 percent to 17 percent) to associate yellow with weakness.</li>
<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">When looking at the social media posts including areas of the home, mentions of green, pink, and red index higher in the Midwest than in other regions. In the South, blue indexes higher than in other regions.</li>
<li style="list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 5px 16px; padding: 0px;">Fifty-eight percent of Americans are planning to paint an area in their home in the next 12 months, with nearly seven in 10 millennial men (69 percent) planning to paint within the next year. The bedroom topped the list with 44 percent of Americans who plan to paint choosing this room, followed by bathrooms (39 percent).</li>
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<u>Refreshing hundreds of deserving spaces</u>During National Painting Week and throughout May, thousands of Sherwin-Williams employees across <span class="xn-location">North America</span> are volunteering to refresh more than 240 locations in need of a fresh coat of paint, such as community centers, parks and historic landmarks. The company is donating the paint and supplies for projects, and plans to continue to give back throughout the year thanks in part to the help of supporters who "donated" their digital color as a part of Sherwin-Williams Donate Your Color Campaign (<a href="https://www.donateyourcolor.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0782c1; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">DonateYourColor.com</a>).</div>
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Sherwin-Williams is partnering on many of these projects with local affiliates of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and <span class="xn-location">Canada</span>, Ronald McDonald House Charities and Rebuilding Together. Painting contractors and builders are also participating in several community projects with the teams from their local Sherwin-Williams stores, lending their expertise to the benefit of many communities across the country.</div>
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And for homeowners inspired to refresh their own home, there's no better time than now. Sherwin-Williams is offering 30 percent off its branded paints and stains, and an additional 20 percent off the everyday low price on custom-order wallpaper, from <span class="xn-chron">May 19-29</span>, in its neighborhood stores across the country.</div>
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More information on National Painting Week is available at Sherwin-Williams stores and <a href="https://www.sherwin-williams.com/national-painting-week?WT.mc_id=swpaintingweek.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0782c1; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">swpaintingweek.com</a>.</div>
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<b>Ask Sherwin-Williams</b><b>™</b><br />For more than 150 years, Sherwin-Williams has been an industry leader in the development of technologically advanced paint and coatings. As the nation's largest specialty retailer of paint and painting supplies, Sherwin-Williams is dedicated to supporting both do-it-yourselfers and painting professionals with exceptional and exclusive products, resources to make confident color selections and expert, personalized service at its more than 4,200 neighborhood stores across <span class="xn-location">North America</span>. For more information, visit sherwin-williams.com. Join Sherwin-Williams on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. </div>
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<b>About The National Painting Week Color Psychology Study</b>This survey was conducted online within <span class="xn-location">the United States</span> between <span class="xn-chron">March 23-27, 2017</span> among 2,201 adults (aged 18 and over) by Harris Poll on behalf of Sherwin-Williams via its Quick Query omnibus product. Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region, and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them in line with their actual proportions in the surveyed populations. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. Social results were obtained by harvesting 12,089 public geo-tagged social media posts in the U.S. between <span class="xn-chron">January 1 - April 13, 2017</span> where selected colors appear within two words of areas of the home.</div>
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<sup>1</sup> Millennials are defined as ages 22 - 40<br /><sup>2</sup> Gen Xers are defined as ages 41 - 52<br /><sup>3</sup> Boomers are defined as ages 53 - 71Sherwin Williams Paint It Week</div>
ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-64377272351411790352017-05-10T15:24:00.000-07:002017-05-10T15:24:08.278-07:00Klimpt's Floral painhtings<div class="article-section-container responsive-layout-container" data-layout="overflow_fillwidth" data-section-type="image_collection" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Adobe Garamond W08", adobe-garamond-pro, AGaramondPro-Regular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 45px 75px; max-width: calc(100vw - 150px); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 874px; z-index: 1;">
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Last year the billionaire talk show host Oprah Winfrey sold the <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/gustav-klimt" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 0px, rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px, transparent 0px); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gustav Klimt</a> painting <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II</i> (1912) to a Chinese buyer for $150 million. As <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/oprah-said-to-snag-150-million-selling-klimt-to-chinese-buyer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 0px, rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px, transparent 0px); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a> first reported, the deal was one of the biggest private sales of 2016 and represented a near-doubling of the work’s price, just 10 years after she bought it for $87.9 million. And that wasn’t even the highest price the painter has fetched of late. A year earlier, the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev sold <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Water Serpents II</i> (1904–07) privately for $170 million to an unknown Asian buyer.</div>
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“It’s an excellent time to be selling a Klimt,” says Thomas Bompard, a Senior Director in the Impressionist and Modern Art department at Sotheby’s, which is auctioning the Viennese Secessionist artist’s vibrant landscape painting, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bauerngarten </i>(1907), with an estimate in excess of $45 million, on March 1st. The painting last sold in 1994 for $5.8 million.</div>
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Bompard says two factors have contributed to the recent steep rise in prices for Klimt’s work. One is the rarity of his works on the market: Klimt only created around 250 paintings in his whole life, most of which are now in museums.</div>
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The other is the growing number of Asian collectors who have recently been snapping up trophy works by Western <a href="https://www.artsy.net/gene/modern-1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 0px, rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px, transparent 0px); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Modernists</a> such as Klimt, <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/pablo-picasso" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 0px, rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px, transparent 0px); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Picasso</a>, and <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/vincent-van-gogh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent 0px, rgb(51, 51, 51) 1px, transparent 0px); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Van Gogh</a>. Over the past five years, Sotheby’s has seen a 69% increase in the number of Asian buyers in its Impressionist and Modern art sales, a Sotheby’s spokeswoman said.</div>
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<b>“Klimt appeals to Asian buyers because he often blurs the boundaries between decorative and fine art, painting and drawing</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">,” Bompard says.</span></div>
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Klimt only painted around 55 square-format landscapes like <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bauerngarten</i>—a composition he adopted quite early in his career, according to the Viennese curator Alfred Weidinger, who wrote the 2007 catalogue raisonné of Klimt’s paintings.</div>
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“There are very few landscapes by Klimt left in private hands,” Bombard says. “Works that tick all the boxes—sublimely executed, impeccable provenance, excellent condition—only come on the market every 20 years.”</div>
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That scarcity, combined with growing demand from Asian collectors, is expected to push his work to new auction highs. “Collectors should be prepared to commit at the highest level if they want to be sure to hang this painting on their wall,” he says.</div>
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For example, the current record for a Klimt landscape painting at auction is $43 million, on a par with the estimate for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bauerngarten</i>, but Bompard expects that figure to be surpassed. Weidinger says he knows at least three Asian collectors are looking for works by the Austrian artist, one of whom was the deep-pocketed likely buyer of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adele Bloch-Bauer II</i> last year.</div>
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Interest for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bauerngarten</i> is not limited to Asia, says Weidinger, who describes the work as one of Klimt’s 10 best landscape paintings. Klimt painted most of his landscapes, including <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bauerngarten</i>, in the Salzkammergut region of Austria, at Lake Attersee and elsewhere. And, as it happens, “a non-Asian collector with a country house on Attersee is searching for an important piece,” according to the curator. Article by Anny Shaw</div>
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ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-26478793136474923882017-05-03T12:37:00.000-07:002017-05-03T12:37:14.671-07:00Regency Wardrobe Colors<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #a567ff; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px; position: relative;">
A List of Regency Colors for Clothing</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">One of my favorite eras in history is the Regency. I love the clothing styles--the delicate slipper shoes, the elegant bonnets, the silk stockings. Even the hair ribbons and small purses called reticules. Below is a list of colors used during the Regency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Blush - pale pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Laylock - warm pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Amaranth</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - purple‐red with a pink tint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Amethyst </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">- light purple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Violet</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - parma violet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Azure - bright, sky blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Bishop's Blue - blue/purple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Cerulean Blue - a bluish green color during the Regency (not the sky blue we think of today)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Spanish Blue - dark blue, used for men's coats</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">American Green - bright green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Bottle Green<b> - </b>dark green with a hint of blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Emerald Green - a bluish green color made from </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">a copper arsenic compound</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">. Yes, it was poisonous, but not known to be at the time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Pistache/Pistachio - light green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Pomona</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - Apple green</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Bois de Citron</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - a yellow green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Canary yellow</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - bright yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Evening Primrose</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - deeper yellow than Primrose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Fawn </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">- a light yellow‐tan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Jonquil</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">daffodil yellow</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Primrose</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - soft yellow</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Capucine - dark orange</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Coquelicot - named after the Poppy flower</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Devonshire</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> Brown - rich reddish brown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Hazelnut </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">- reddish‐brown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Pompeian Red</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - the deep red color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Puce</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - brownish-purple/purplish-pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Sorrel - </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">cinnamon color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Egytian Earth-Brown</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Manilla - light, hemp brown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Nakara - pearl color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Slate</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> - a dark gray/stone gray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Straw </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">- the golden beige hue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Resources: A Lady of Fashion - Barbara Johnson's Album of Styles and Fabrics; Sandra Brands Regency Clothing Workshop; The Regency Companion by Laudermilk and Hamlin</span></i></span></div>
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ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-16501954152382595732017-04-27T16:38:00.000-07:002017-04-27T16:38:01.780-07:00Popular Colors During the Regency Period<br />
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Regency Colors</h1>
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Ever picked up a Regency novel and wondered about the strange color descriptions?<br />The coquelicot ribbons that raise the plain white muslin gown of the debutante above<br />the ordinary. The dashing heroine in a very low cut pomona green silk ball dress. The<br />flattering primrose morning dress on the freckled redhead who's been outside without a<br />hat. (Good gracious!) The jonquil gown of the young widow just out of mourning. And<br />don't forget the puce waistcoat on the boring suitor. Here they are in all their splendor!</div>
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Coquelicot</h2>
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Coquelicot is the French name for the regular corn or field poppies (<i>Papaver rhoeas</i>) so poppy red it is. As today in Regency times, Paris was the fashion capital of the civilized world and French fashions the epitome of chic, so French names abounded in all matters of apparel. Coquelicot was at the height of fashion in 1794-99 <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#a"><sup>a.</sup></a> but was used continuously throughout the period. Coquelicot was such a bold color that for well brought up [young] ladies it was only permissible for trimmings or accessories. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#1"><sup>1.</sup></a></div>
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Jonquil</h2>
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The jonquil (<i>Narcissus jonquilla</i>) is the small scented daffodil that grows wild in southern Europe. This plant has a more than 300 year long history of cultivation and was used in early times to hybridize our modern daffodil, thus jonquil is daffodil yellow, a true yellow color. Jonquil was The color of the 1801 <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#b"><sup>b.</sup></a> season as jonquil was everywhere. The fashion magazines of the time mention ribbons, hats, draperies (scarfs and dress details NOT curtains!) and other trimmings in jonquil. No lady aspiring to be fashionable could do without it. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#2"><sup>2.</sup></a></div>
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Primrose</h2>
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Primrose is one of the colors that most confuse readers of Regency romances. Is it a bright yellow as some say or more of a soft yellow as some others seem to think? That depends on what primrose we are talking about. Regency fashion comes in two primrose colors, both inspired by flowers. First we have the soft, pale yellow of the common primrose, <i>Primula vulgaris</i>. It has a pleasing, mild yellow color suitable for daywear. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#3"><sup>3.</sup></a></div>
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Evening Primrose</h2>
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The biennial Evening Primrose (<i>Cenothera biennis</i>) has a much deeper and brighter yellow color. When gloves and boots are described to be of primrose color it is this darker, deeper yellow the writer had in mind. Both the primrose colors were popular during the whole Regency period, and the height of fashion 1807-1817. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#c"><sup>c.</sup></a> So there we have the reason for the confusion: Two colors referred to with one name! <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#4"><sup>4.</sup></a></div>
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Pomona Green</h2>
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Regency style is classic, based on old Greece and its buildings, thus classic allusions were not uncommon. Pomona was the Greek goddess of the orchards and the apple her favorite fruit. So what the Regency people called pomona green is simply apple green, a green color with a good helping of yellow in it. Green was a fashionable color both in clothes and furnishings during the Regency and pomona green apparel depicted in the periodicals of the day from 1812 <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#d"><sup>d.</sup></a> to the end of the period. Pomona green was used both for trimming and whole dresses. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#5"><sup>5.</sup></a></div>
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Puce</h2>
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One of the more obscure colors used in Regency novels is puce. It's a color nearly always treated with disdain but what color was it, really? It might help to know that the word puce comes, as so many others, from the French. Puce is the French word for flea! Yes, the color is a brownish-purple or a purplish-pink, the color of the blood-sucking flea; coagulated blood in other words. It may seem astonishing to the modern reader that one of the most popular colors in 1805 <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#e"><sup>e.</sup></a>was just puce! <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#6"><sup>6.</sup></a></div>
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Emerald Green</h2>
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1817 <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#f"><sup>f.</sup></a> was the year emerald green burst upon the fashion scene in a big way. The pigment - alternately called Paris green, Sheele's green, Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green or emerald green - was already popular in interior decoration, particularly on wallpapers <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#7"><sup>7.</sup></a> and fabric. For the first time a green dye that did not fade or darken was available and it became all the rage. Unfortunately, the basis of this lovely bluish green was a copper arsenic compound! Yes, the pigment was poisonous, but this had yet to be discovered. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#g"><sup>g.</sup></a></div>
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Cerulean Blue</h2>
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Although blue shades referred to as Cerulean have existed for centuries and were not exactly inpopular in Regency times, <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#h"><sup>h.</sup></a> the intense sky blue of today is a product of the Victorian era. During the Regency, the cerulean pigment was usually made up of a copper and cobalt mix, which had an unfortunate tendency to shift towards green. It was also a very unstable color that washed out badly. Not that the later was unusual for the times as colorfast dyes finally came into their own in the later part of the 19th century. <a href="http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/colors.htm#8"><sup>8</sup></a></div>
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Fashion, technology & women’s rights are intertwined today– just like they were in the 1920s. Trends in wardrobe, hair, and makeup are a visual sign of the times that speak to women’s current roles and values plus technological advances throughout the decades. A few historically significant trends come to mind:</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1920s</strong>: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flapper dresses</span></strong> that embraced physical freedom through functionality and accessibility</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1960s:</strong> The <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mini skirt</span></strong> (named after British designer Mary Quaint’s favorite car The Mini) debuted in 1940s pulp and science fiction and became streetwear for “Ya-Ya Girls” in the ’60s. It eventually became a symbol of female power to be feared by men who might succumb to its seductive nature.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1980s</strong>: <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Power suits and shoulder pads</strong></span> told corporate powers that women can compete with men in any workplace role. While suiting was popularized by Hollywood starlets as early as the 1940s, this decade’s suits were devoid of curves– mimicking a masculine projection of competence and confidence. Think of the movie <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/10/20/356468554/the-look-of-power-how-women-have-dressed-for-success" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff1039; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Working Girl</a>.</div>
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Major changes in women’s roles, rights and values are reflected in fashion and are many times considered to be rebellious or associated with immoral behavior (like the mini skirt). One example is the notion that flapper fashion was directly tied to mobsters, speakeasies, and booze. Evan Casey, who is the Public History Graduate Assistant at University of Nevada, Las Vegas says otherwise. She’s the student curator for <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ready To Roar</em>, a Prohibition Era fashion exhibit showing at the <a href="http://themobmuseum.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ff1039; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mob Museum</a> in Las Vegas through February 2017.</div>
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“Dispelling this myth is one of the primary themes of<span class="apple-converted-space" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ready to Roar.</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>In retrospect, it is easy to imagine the Flapper springing from the booze poured into the gutter in January of 1920, but the historical record shows she was a long time coming. Many hallmarks of the ‘flapper’ silhouette predate the 1920s. Beginning at the turn of the Twentieth Century, American culture saw an increase in the importance of health. The sports and youth culture that developed from this shift dramatically changed society, as well as the way women dressed. The S-shape corset was discarded, and changes in hemlines and tailoring increased range of motion as the Twentieth Century matured. By the time speakeasies became the social hotspot, women’s attire had accommodated their ability, and desire, to kick up their heels.”</div>
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And just like today, young women didn’t want to look (or act) like their mothers. “The chaperone died at the hands of dating as interactions between the sexes changed during Prohibition. Automobiles carried young adults away from parental eyes to socials, petting parties, sporting events, and theaters, while Hollywood productions portrayed, and simultaneously manufactured, this modern courting culture,” Casey explains.</div>
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Technology enabled fashion to become more accessible to women outside the upper class. According to Casey, manufacturing finally matured (it lagged behind men’s fashion) and built the needed relationships with retailers for broad accessibility. Shopping became a “hobby.”</div>
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How about those cosmetic compacts that fit neatly into your purse? It all came down to modern marketing. “Central to 1920s beauty culture was the idea of the ‘ritual,’ a concept that cold cream companies actively promoted. During Prohibition, the visible use of cosmetics became a point of demarcation between the old guard and the new,” says Casey.</div>
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How do technology, socio-economic and political tides influence fashion? According to Casey, the more things change the more they stay the same. “Despite the extremely varied result, the influences are pretty much the same. Clothing is a mechanism by which the social order is experienced, communicated and reproduced. The passing of the 19<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A</span>mendment did not inspire women to suddenly shorten their skirts any more than the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s made everyone grow long hair. What we wear and how we look is a lived experience that happens in real time. It is proactive, not reactive, and will always be shaped such factors.”</div>
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ColorFilledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05592786833215637848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7997124476696648929.post-1831055380756704132017-04-12T12:38:00.000-07:002017-04-12T12:38:10.321-07:00Top Jelly Bean Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;">The <b>Strawberry Jam</b> Jelly Belly has super-concentrated strawberry flavor, and it has dark purple speckles to identify it. </span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Sour cherry</b> is opaque red; </span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;"> <b>Very Cherry</b> is a bit bluer than its <b>sour</b> cousin and is the more recognizably <b>cherry</b>-flavored bean.</span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;">"<b>Very Cherry </b>has been the top jelly bean flavor for the manufacturer <i>Jelly Belly</i> since way back when...Have you ever wondered why? What is it abut red candies that makes them universally alluring?</span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;">Charles Spence, a psychology professor at the University of Oxford who studies how our brains process taste, says it may be back to our foraging ancestors. 'Fruits turn from unripe, green shades to red hues when they sweeten.'</span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc _y9e" style="font-size: 16px;">And still today we make this red-equals-sweeter connection. In fact, studies show that just <i>coloring </i>a food red make it "taste" about 10 percent sweeter."</span></div>
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