The color of the sky and sea. Of distance. Of eyes (some eyes) and the interior of glaciers. Though in Homer's day, the sea was described as "wine-dark" as there wasn't then a word for blue, except with the Egyptians who made a blue dye. (See my blog posting about this, "Seeing Blue," dated January 16, 2016.) Blue, too, is a primary color along with yellow and red, at least in pigment.
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| Oahu |
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| Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| Buttons |
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| Early morning in Vermont |
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| Registan square, Samarkand |
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| Alfred Stevens, "A Duchess (The Blue Dress)" 1866 in the Clark Art Institute* |
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| How colors fade into blue as they recede |
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| Outdoor art in Santa Fe |
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| Solving the clothes drying problem in Aigues-Mortes, France |
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| Muscat, capital of Oman, in 1968 |
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| Islamic design in the Shahi Zinda necropolis complex, Samarkand |
*With thanks to the Clark Art Institute for letting me take a photograph of this painting.
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