For artists and creative people the colours are very important. Every day we study, mix, choose, use some colors. Today we want to share with you some curiosities about the blue colour.
1) In the optical spectrum, Blue is between violet and green
2) Blue is one of the primary colours in the colour theory for painting and in the RGB model.
3) In the history of art, Blue was a latecomer. On the cave paintings from Paleolithic, there were other colours, but not the blue.
4) There's no blue in the blue eyes, but it's just the optical effects called Tyndall scattering.
5) During the Renaissance, the Lapis lazuli (a blue semi precious stone) was used to make the "ultramarine" pigment, a sades of blue.
6) Van Gogh, Renoir and other painters used some shades of blue to create emotions in their painting, not just to represent nature or something.
7) The blue colour and his shades are associated with sadness, harmony, calm, etc
8) Blu is the italian word for blue ^_^
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Silvia & Paolo ( @silviabeneforti & @paolobeneforti )