A series of coincidences in recent months, as I learn about different aspects of the colour blue, culminated in a wonderful, thought-provoking exhibition, “Blue - The Colour of Modernism”, currently on display at the Caixa Foundation in Palma de Mallorca. The palette of blues increased vastly in the later 19th century, and artists evoked innumerable emotions and situations with their skilful use of different shades of blue, a colour which hallmarked that era to a great degree.
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"Aizome" or The Art of Japanese Indigo Dyeing /
Blue hands tell of wondrous traditional skills of fabric dyeing with indigo in the Tokushima area of Shikoku Island, Japan. This humble blue flower is picked and prepared through a long, complex process, then to be turned into liquid. living dye into which different fabrics are dipped. The resultant fabrics are utterly bewitching in their subtle, clear and joyous blue patterns. They lead one into yet another fascinating, centuries-old art form in Japan.
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