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China is a concrete jungle anywhere you have a mass of cameras.
That about sums it up. Not whatever US-based fashion trend that you hate this week.
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The example they use of Baroque art actually perfectly demonstrates this. It primarily consists of neutral tones that integrate well with the blues and muted oranges woven through it. Not exactly riotous color, as they put it - but very similar to the use of color you see both in modern designs and older cultural traditions. (edit) I do think we've swung a little hard in the direction of color minimalism recently; it…
Isn't all that art faded out, though? I wouldn't be surprised if Baroque period art was originally painted with riotous color first and then faded over time to where it now looks merely like an "opinionated use of color". In a similar vein, all those old grey marble statues the Greeks and Romans made used to be bathed in riotous color before the paint flaked off.
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> Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not. It's perfectly meaningful. When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.
> When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even. Why not? Different colors stand out. Even gray on black does. They are just not colorful. Look at this painting - [0]. Are you telling me the red tone doesn't stand out? [0] - https://largemodernart.com/products/original-abstract-art-oi...
Which colour stands out here? https://business.cap.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/cap_ex...
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> Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not. It's perfectly meaningful. When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.
Sure you can. Red rose in a field of green for example. Human eyes evolved to see the colours the way they do precisely because they were working in a world where nearly everything is colourful and some things needed to stand out.
> Possessing prominent and varied colors.
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But you're contrasting chaotic use of many different colors with neutrality, and arguing for environments with very little color rather than well-coordinated color; you argued above that color was just one element along with size, shape, texture etc., as if these qualities were mutually exclusive and design should only emphasize one at any given time.
Well yes, in practice color often is chaotic. Nobody is color-coordinating the cars in the road, or the houses on a street, or the signs and advertisements and billboards. It's a free-for-all that turns into garish noise. And more neutral environments with accent colors makes sense because the main accent is always people and their clothing. Your patterned red dress won't clash with a neutral background. It will like…
All I can say is that if it is not baroque, do not fix it.
A long time ago I adopted a personal style of wearing bright colors. I have simple good fitting t-shirts in all colors. Glasses in blue and red. Shoes in yellow. Sandals in green. Jackets in orange. You get the idea. It's always easy to make an outfit that goes together and makes a good impression. Men's Japanese and European fashion brands work well with this choice. I see this on the streets in Paris or Amsterdam f…
I can't speak to Amsterdam, but it's commonly said that the way you know Americans in Paris is that they're wearing bright colors. The navy blue suit is almost a uniform for professional Parisian men.
May I make a case for brown? - Brown is an extremely warm color, and sucks up all of the ugly blues from unnatural light sources - Brown pairs well with all sorts of shades and colors, just like the millennial gray and white tones - Brown can come in all sorts of shades and vibrancies, but is not as stimulating as other colors - Brown hides dirt, scuffs, and stains extremely well Humans have spent most of our history…
We famously had "The Brown Era" in video game art direction for a while, maybe 2005-2010. Most people claimed they hated it.
One interesting thread here is the long shadow of Greek and later Roman statuary and architecture on Western European self image - the marble statues, columns, and architecture of the Roman empire were taken as the origin story for Western culture - "we were an empire built on philosophers and artists, and look at the (gleaming white) purity of their works." It turns out, of course, that all those gleaming white stat…
> the Greeks and Romans were not cultures of conformity or austerity - quite the opposite, but the seeds of the philosophy sank in hard, and here we are. I don’t think anyone thinks they were. They are usually assumed to be hedonistic in popular culture
Just got back from a trip to Spain and Portugal. Basically had culture shock driving down a wide north american road. It's not just the colors. It's the emptiness. The clearance of everything in north america is insane. It's just so boring.
