Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler (frustrated art school reject)
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Interesting to see the different connotations and uses green has seen throughout different points in history and from different points of view.
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Greening the Color Wheel
Although each of the colors in the color wheel has its own magic, they all look good in green--the green of environmental activism that is. There's been so much green everywhere lately you'd think St. Patrick's day never ended. Some, like Thomas Friedman in his influential book Hot, Flat and Crowded, call green the new red, white and blue.
So how can art get in on this global green? How does art prove a mechanism for social change and patriotic ideas? And what is green--the purely formal, chorophantastic secondary color in all its nuances--all about?
This blog thinks technology is one answer, balanced with hands on experiences in service and projects based learning. Greening the Color Wheel is here as a resource for art teachers, but can also be useful for anyone curious about art, nature, and our rapidly shrinking global community.
So how can art get in on this global green? How does art prove a mechanism for social change and patriotic ideas? And what is green--the purely formal, chorophantastic secondary color in all its nuances--all about?
This blog thinks technology is one answer, balanced with hands on experiences in service and projects based learning. Greening the Color Wheel is here as a resource for art teachers, but can also be useful for anyone curious about art, nature, and our rapidly shrinking global community.
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