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Blue is the most popular colour. So it seems strange that in language, literature and art blue is a latecomer among colours.

Colour is a fascinating subject. And because it is summer I would like to have a closer look at yellow. Yellow captures our attention more than any other colour because it is the most luminous of all the colours of the spectrum. Oscar Wilde once said: “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the […]

Red is supposedly the first colour perceived by Man. No wonder, that it is such a powerful colour for us. It stands for both passionate love and hate, for seduction and violence. In other words: Red is a colour of extremes and of pure energy. In art, Red was the earliest colour used by prehistoric ancestors -perhaps as long ago […]