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2. Light blue - Wikipedia

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   In Christianity, light blue represents the sin of sloth [citation needed]. Sexuality. In Russian, pink (розовый, rozovyj) is used to refer to lesbians, and light blue (голубой, goluboy) refers to gay men. [14] Other. Azzurro, a light blue, is the national color of Italy (from the livery color of the former reigning family, the ...

3. Light Coming on the Plains - Wikipedia

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   Light Coming on the Plains is the name of three watercolor paintings made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1917. They were made when O'Keeffe was teaching at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. [1] They reflect the evolution of her work towards pure abstraction, and an early American modernist landscape. They were unique for their time.

4. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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   The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon (604–562 BC) was decorated with deep blue glazed bricks used as a background for pictures of lions, dragons and aurochs. [16] The ancient Greeks classified colors by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or ...

5. Watercolor painting - Wikipedia

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   An artist working on a watercolor using a round brush Love's Messenger, an 1885 watercolor and tempera by Marie Spartali Stillman. Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French:; from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), [1] is a painting method [2] in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based ...

6. Color of water - Wikipedia

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   The red, orange, and yellow wavelengths of light are absorbed so the remaining light seen is composed of green, cyan, and blue wavelengths. This is the main reason the ocean's color is cyan. The relative contribution of reflected skylight and the light scattered back from the depths is strongly dependent on observation angle. [8]

7. Cerulean - Wikipedia

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   The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus (Latin: [kae̯ˈru.le.us]), "dark blue, blue, or blue-green", which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, "heaven, sky". [2] "Cerulean blue" is the name of a blue-green pigment consisting of cobalt stannate (Co 2 SnO 4). The pigment was first synthesized in the late ...