#history of color

[princetonuniversitypress]

This essay is an excerpt from the introduction of White: The History of a Color

Roland Betancourt is professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Performing the Gospels in Byzantium and Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[charlesoberonn]

[prokopetz]

It's a rough world out there for people who were teenagers during the exact slice of gaming history where indie video games had become feasible to develop and distribute globally, but the definition of "indie" didn't yet encompass corporate studios and million-dollar budgets. They'll tell you their favourite game when they were a kid was, like, a point-and-click visual novel whose protagonist dreams they're a vast formless sea monster that learns about the concept of colours after finding a discarded helium balloon, or a hypertext fiction/precision platformer hybrid exploring gender as a mechanism of social control, and you think they're either being pretentious or deliberately fucking with you, but no, that's just what the indie gaming scene was like for a couple of years there. The sea monster thing got a front-page feature on the same site that made Bloons Tower Defense a household name – it was literally played by millions of people.

[colour-is-its-own-reward]

'Brat Green was created by a New York-based creative tech company for the cover of Charli XCX’s 2024 album Brat.

Unlike Viridian, Phthalo, or Cobalt Green, which were physically invented using chemical processes, Brat Green was created digitally, and it’s intended to be seen and shared in digital space. However, if you walk through a museum or gallery you’ll find this shade of slimy lime green everywhere if you’re looking for it. Discover more about Green pigments on our blog...'

Evie Hatch, Studio and Materials Specialist at Jackson’s Art Supplies, on Jackson’s Instagram.

[gendernewtral]

gilbert baker designed his flag with the express purpose of it including every single queer person. baker was so dedicated to making sure his flag was inclusive that he added another stripe in 2017, lavender, to represent diversity. the concept that it’s for white gay men came around later and needs to be changed.

can we please go back to associating the original flag, and ideally the modern rainbow flag, with inherent inclusion of every single queer person? instead of deciding that the original wasn’t good enough? personalized flags are important for representing those who have typically been excluded from the queer community, but reclaiming the original flag as a symbol of inclusion is important too.

[s0up1ta]

they're so doomed yaoi i hate them

full thing under the cut:

[mar-ruiz]

(vía Review -- Three Books About Art, Gardens, and Science)

[lionofchaeronea]

Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

[ayandagama]

kukhanya.k

[eirene]

Recital, c. 1884 Giovanni Boldini, "Master of Swish"

[claireneto]

Please don't forget Sylvia Rivera and her impact this pride.

[allurahomeofbeauty]

Edited and directed by Lok Hong

[itscolossal]

At More Than 800 Pages, ‘The Book of Colour Concepts’ Revels in Four Centuries of Chromatic Wonders

[astronomodome]

grian just hatched ...

[serinesu]

caribbean dreams