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Tag Archives: color

Christopher Alexander on Gauguin’s Cow

Published: May 24, 2016
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After reading this, I invite you to repeat an experiment I did: do an online search for both pictures and see what you get! “The cow is more basic still. This one is less knowing that Gauguin’s other works. When I saw it at Christie’s, the junior auctioneer told me it was a ‘very nice […]

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Christopher Alexander on Nolde’s Sunset

Published: May 24, 2016
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“If we look at a sunset, we have all seen one; what more basic, more primitive response is there, than to dip the brush in yellow, scrawl yellow, yellow, yellow, all over the central sun? But who would dare to do it? It would have taken enormous daring to be so absurdly basic. And then […]

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Christopher Alexander on Schrödinger’s Yellow

Published: May 16, 2016
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“Schrödinger, the physicist who discovered the matter-wave equation of quantum mechanics, has a great deal to teach us about color and its real existence. He outlines [in his short book Mind and Matter] the following argument. ‘You and I, both see yellow. But according to the prevailing view of science, there is no way of […]

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Christopher Alexander on Color Properties of Inner Light

Published: May 16, 2016
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This post is an except from an extensive chapter about color. As I was reading through the chapter and excerpting from it the subject of relationships was on my mind and in my heart. When I speak of relationships between people, especially between myself and people close to me, things tend to get personal(!). However […]

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Christopher Alexander on Color

Published: April 15, 2016
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This is merely an opening for a subject that is covered in more depth in book 4 “I believe that color, like music, holds the key to life as it appears in art; it is, perhaps, the most fundamental way in which things in geometry – that means real physical things in the world – […]

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