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Browsing Color and Culture Category
Indigo Textiles-Technique and History, by Gosta Sandberg
Carlo Scarpa
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Check out the ColorViews Blog post for more about this subject.
Got Color? No More Neutrals…Get Gaudi!
A long winter..”neutrals” got you down? Fret no longer, Get energized with Gaudi.
No, it's not a dragon—it's a building. From: Complete works: Gaudi / by Aurora Cuito, Cristina Montes. This image from the book is by Pere Planells
Exquisite photography and detailed descriptions of sites provide a compelling entree into the Gaudi world. As an architectural color consultant I particularly enjoy Gaudi’s bold, personal style of color in architecture. I’m happy to have the English edition so I can actually read the text!
Next stop…Barcelona!
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Ikat Textiles of India
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No image on Amazon.com, so I offer this image of my own copy of Ikat Textiles of India, by Chelna Desai
A contemporary view of Ikat textiles in India. Shown are designs in a wide range of colors, from simple everyday styles to complex, rare examples. Includes the history and technique of Ikat with a very useful glossary.
Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe
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Decorative, functional and symbolic, the art of the tribal Ndebele women of South Africa continues to amaze us with its beauty, simplicity, and drama.
This book was first published in 1986. Many of the buildings shown are no longer standing, giving us even more reason to appreciate these amazing painted dwellings and the people who created them.
The Ultimate Painted House(s):are you ready for this?
- Are you ready for this?
- Beadwork and Painting of the Ndebele women. Click on the image to go to our Design Library, where you can order this book.
Decorative, functional and symbolic, the art of the tribal Ndebele women of South Africa continues to amaze us with its beauty, simplicity, and drama.
This book was first published in 1986. Many of the buildings shown are no longer standing, giving us even more reason to appreciate these amazing painted dwellings and the people who created them.
I could not say it better, so will quote from the statement of Nadine Gordimer on the book’s flyleaf.
“Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s book is a revelation…of a glorious continued existence, under the most destructive forms of physical and psychological hardship imaginable, of an artistic culture at the very center of life itself. The art of the Ndebele women is uniquely rooted in that guardianship; its canvas is the shrine of the home, where children are conceived and reared and family life is housed in the spirit. The beauty of this book is unsurpassed in its combination of content and meaning. Its art is also the art of life.
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“Enjoy the Process: Guidelines for Working with a Design Professional.”
The Bread Builders
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See the Colorviews blog post that relates to this tasty subject! It’s a stretch, admittedly , but I couldn’t resist.
Blue – The History of a Color
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Looking into the history of any color is fascinating, and in BLUE, Michel Pastoureau has created a beautiful book that is rewarding for it’s own aesthetic qualities, both visual and functional (yes, the binding is really stitched and the book lays open at any page!).
As for content, the color illustrations taken from a variety of historic documents serve to make the educational text entertaining as well as informative.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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From 1914, the ever-relevant Wassily Kandinsky–prolific painter and writer.
If it’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die
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The subject is color use in cinema, something we can appreciate whether we notice it or not!
