Happy Valentines Day and Musings about the Color, RED
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Valentines’ Day is synonymous with RED - red roses, red hearts and red carnations.
Red, the hottest of the warm colors, is the color of love, romance, passion and energy.... (and of Target dept.store).
Brides wear red in China, India and the Islamic countries. Audrey Hepburn wore it in Funny Face:
Red arouses, excites and evokes strong emotions. In fact, studies show that seeing red can stimulate your body to pump out more adrenaline and increases blood pressure, respiration and pulse rate.
I remember the first time I saw how powerful red could be - it was in the movie GiGi by Vincente Minelli. I was very young and I sat in the movie theater looking at the magnifent red salon in Paris, thinking how dull our little rooms in my Queens, NY apartment were.
Minelli, a film director, was a master of color, saying,
"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character. " - Vincente Minnelli
I think Minelli got the red room idea from the French artist, Henri Matisse, another master of color. Here is why:
The Red Room by Matisse
"I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room."
Amanda Pays
And then there is one of the most amazing books I ever saw, 'The Red Book' by Carl Jung:
And so if there one idea for using RED in the garden, then, to paraphrase Derek Jarman, use it like spice:
Painters use red like spice. - Derek Jarman
Here are some ways to spice up a garden with red:
Red Fence by Viking Fence
Red New Guinea Impatiens
Poppies at Jim's by Jan Johnsen
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