Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#color
blurb
kelli7990
Birds | Kevin Henkes
post image

I colored this picture on one of my coloring apps and I wanted to make up a story about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

JenlovesJT47 🦅♥️♥️♥️ 5d
lil1inblue 💛🐦💛🦜💛🐦‍⬛💛 Lovely! 5d
dabbe 💙♥️🩵 5d
AnnCrystal LOVE 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🐦🐝💝. 5d
22 likes4 comments
review
Robotswithpersonality
Chromophobia | David Batchelor
post image
Mehso-so

And around and around we go! 😵‍💫 When the book started with a chapter about whitescapes, an apparent critique of minimalist architecture/interior design, I thought maybe we were going to consider individual colours, how people historically have reacted to them, how they might arouse fear, disgust, phobia, as much as praise, from an art-focused, rather than psychological basis. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? But after the first chapter, it was a bunch of chapters considering the idea of not liking colour or colours, as a unit, at all, largely from the perspective of writers from the 19th century or earlier, contrasting with what I guess the author saw as the clearest emergent vote for colour thereafter, the 1960s with psychedelia and pop art. Film also gets in there, too. 2w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? The 19th century opinions showcase a staggering amount of anthropocentric, hierarchical thinking, attempting to make line, form, architecture, superior to colour, and proving both racist and misogynist in the way colour and its associations/attributes are described as subordinated to form. 😬 2w
Robotswithpersonality 4/? There was also a chapter discussing how different languages have different conceptions of basic colours, pitting colour against language, the idea that people react to colour before they have language, that describing colour is often beyond words. A side tangent that felt very tangential.
I guess if you're going to look at the range of opinions in art criticism and see what the reasoning was behind chromophobia you'll sample whatever period
2w
See All 7 Comments
Robotswithpersonality 5/? of history such views hold sway, but it does feel somewhat truncated that there were some published dudes in the 1800s (not all anti-colour but majority of those quoted) and seemingly a reaction to this mindset by dudes in the 1960s, and this author decided in 2000 to quote a bunch of each group without touching on much time outside of what was either decades or hundreds of years' old writings, interviews. 2w
Robotswithpersonality 6/? The paragraphs, the meanderings Batchelor gets into featuring his own thoughts did often seem to be repeats, paragraphs going round in circles.
So:
Some older people have not liked colour and their reasons are kind of sus, many people, artists, have worked with and discussed colour (some are recognized as trailblazers for doing so) in ways that might not be recognized as art by the older guys, but why should we care what they thought?
2w
Robotswithpersonality 7/? And maybe modern minimalism is the backlash to the backlash depending on whether your tastes run that way, but I don't see it in danger of taking over the world based on the life of colour and creativity I'm witness to every day in person and online. 2w
Robotswithpersonality 8/8 There were a number of 20th century artists and some art critics from both time periods quoted that I think I'd like to follow up on, but aside from fulfilling an essay requirement (with a hefty word count stipulation) for an art history course, I'm not sure why Batchelor would choose these angles on this topic. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 2w
10 likes7 comments
quote
Robotswithpersonality
Chromophobia | David Batchelor
post image

“...nothing particularly original.“ 💅🏻

6 likes1 stack add
blurb
RowReads1
Paris in Color | Nichole Robertson
post image

My color Paris birthday booty 🎉.

Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 1mo
AmyG Happy Birthday 🎂 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎊 1mo
40 likes4 comments
blurb
kelli7990
Birds | Kevin Henkes
post image

This haiku is about what I saw in my backyard today. The blue jay flew off when I opened the door and I saw a lizard in the grass panting like he was scared to death. He was fighting for his life trying to keep from getting eaten. Poor baby. This picture of the Blue Jay is from Google.

Blue jay fighting with a lizard
The fight ended with the lizard panting in the grass
The lizard won the fight because he didn‘t get eaten

#haiku #haikuhive

TheBookHippie Pretty! What a fun Haiku 2mo
dabbe Your words made me cheer for the lizard! 💚🦎💚 2mo
julieclair Go lizard! 🦎🏆 2mo
See All 7 Comments
JenlovesJT47 🦎🐦🦎🐦🦎🐦🦎 2mo
lil1inblue Fun! Go Mr. Lizard! 🦎🦎🦎 2mo
AnnCrystal You saved the Lizard 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🦎🥳🐦🐝💝. 2mo
Eggs Wow I have never seen a bird go for a lizard 🦎! The cats go for the lizards too 🦎 2mo
28 likes7 comments
blurb
kelli7990
Birds | Kevin Henkes
post image

This haiku is dedicated to my backyard wild birds and squirrels. I fed the birds and put out peanuts for the squirrels yesterday and put in fresh water in the bird bath yesterday and today. My birds and squirrels are having a party outside today in my backyard. They‘re happy.

Birds and squirrels having a party in the backyard
Taking baths, drinking water, scarfing down the food
like they haven‘t been fed in 4 or 5 days

#haiku #haikuhive

JenlovesJT47 🐿️🐦‍⬛🐿️🐦‍⬛🐿️ how fun!! 2mo
dabbe L🦜🐿️VE! 🖤🐝🖤 2mo
lil1inblue Excellent! 🐦🤩🐿 2mo
See All 6 Comments
AnnCrystal 🤩 A garden party 🥳 how lovely and beautiful 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🐿️🐦🐝💝. 2mo
Eggs Nice birdbath too! 2mo
julieclair I love the idea of them having a party! 🐿️🥳🐦‍⬛ 2mo
22 likes6 comments
review
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
They Say Blue | Jillian Tamaki
post image
Pickpick

Absolutely gorgeous picture about colour and nature, wouldn't expect anything less from Jillian Tamaki. I love how she draws movement.

blurb
Jess861
Colors | George Siede
post image

I'm going to have the same bookspin each month as I'm doing it by colours on the cover this year. I really enjoyed this in January and it will be neat to see how many of the colours I actually end up doing by end of year!

#bookspin #February #2025

@TheAromaofBooks

willaful Cool! 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Love it!!! 7mo
34 likes2 comments
blurb
Lindy
post image

Some alpaca yarn dyed with kitchen scraps (pomegranate peels, avocado pits, onion skins) — I am getting ready for a new knitting project. #LitsyCrafters

daena Gorgeous 💖 8mo
BkClubCare How cool! 8mo
kspenmoll So beautiful! 8mo
See All 10 Comments
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 8mo
LeahBergen What a beautiful picture! 8mo
julesG Colourful picture! Can't wait to see what you knit with the yarn. 8mo
tpixie Such beautiful yarn and so creative!!! Love how the yarn matches your painting as well! (edited) 8mo
Lindy @daena @BkClubCare @kspenmoll @dabbe @LeahBergen Thank you for your kind comments 🥰 8mo
Lindy @julesG I will try to remember to post when I get the knitting underway. 😘 8mo
Lindy @dabbe Thanks Teri! Matching the painting is a total fluke, but I like the way it looks too 😁 8mo
38 likes10 comments
blurb
EmilyCGreene
Pantone: Colors | Pantone
post image

As a continuation of my last post, I thought I had finally pulled off my 30 book goal in the last two days only to find out that a book had been catalogued twice and alas I only reached 29. However, I will not be rushing to finish it this year as I feel that doing so would take away the fun and point of me setting these goals. I want to hit the goal because I was loving what I was reading, not to say I got to a certain number. So good job me (: