A M E T I S T A: STEP 25.º

Storie delle Cose is a course of Politecnico di Torino that is given by the teacher Vittorio Marchis. In this course we are called to create a blog where we explore a color in a lots, if not every, aspects of it.
The color that I had was ametista [italian], amethyst [english], and because I am an Erasmus student I decided to write this blog totally in english.

This work was very interesting to do because it not only made me love this color more, but it opened my eyes to see the color behind the color itself and explore a new range of concepts. Which I find very interesting to my Design degree, where I use color very often in my design works.
The first thing I noticed when I started this work, with the posts ‘’Definitionof the Color’’, and ‘’The color Code’’ was that I could almost never separate the color from the gemstone that has the color on it.
The post ’’Foreigh Color’’ made me realize that almost in every language this color was prenounced the same way, which means that this gemstone that is associated to this color was very popular in everywhere.
I think this association happens because before all the new painting and printing tecniques where invented, the only way that people knew this shade of purple/violet has trought this gemstone, and now it’s impossible to disconnect on from another. After I started doing the post ‘’The color in myth’’ and ‘’Thecolor in music’’ understood that this color and gemstone had more to it, not only because there was ancient stories about it but because I started to have my own feelings about the color.
When I arrived to post ‘’The color in Science’’ I was surprised by the studies that have been done with this color and respective gemstone and the results where very interesting. I have to admit that I found myself loving this color more than I used to because of it’s effects in this studies.
It wasn’t difficult to realise that the movie I would choose for my color was going to be Alladin’s from Disney. The color fits perfectly because of the magic and mystery of this movie. On the ‘’Vignetta’’ post I found a caracter that is amethyst named and colored from some new comics.

Passing on to the ‘’Color in Design’’, I already knew that Karim Rashid used to use a lot of pinks/purples in his creations [actually pink is his favourite color] and it was not difficult to see a lot of his creations with amethyst color. On the Advertising and a more graphic aproach I discovered some posters that I collected from Behance [behance is a site here we can share some of our graphic design work]. The color in architecture was something I didn’t quite knew, because it is still a project, and it’s not completed.
On ‘’ABC’’ and ‘’Emblem’’ posts I could not left the gemstone appart because this duality makes a lot of sense and everything blends really well together. In the ‘’Document’’ it was intereting to see that there’s a lot of chemistry connected to the color. The ‘’Patent’’ has to do with jewerly, that is actually the way people used Amethyst in the past, and still in the present has you can see in Protagonist post.
Finding my color in the kitchen was not so easy, because I found more of artificial pigments to make food look this shade of purple/violet than real picmented food. So I made an effort to put some ingredients that are, naturaly amethyst colored.
The pictorial arts I found that artists where using this color to shake things a little bit, by introducing new colors in the nature palette that where always there but in a subtle way.
When I searched for the Fashion post, I found a lot of beautiful gowns from Elie Saab runway show, and all his collections was in this shade.
Because I came from Portugal, I’ve never saw a lot of animals with this color, but in the ‘’Wild Color’’ I found a specie of fishes that are exactly my color.
On the ‘’Anatomy of the Color’’ I tried to break down a little bit this connection with the gemstone so I didn’t repeat myself, so I tried to search some of the chakras meaning about this color.
‘’Color Cloud’’ was more of a resume of this concepts, and all the words I found that were really connected to this color.
After all, I have to say that, I fell in love with this color deeper and deeper trought the work, because I really got to know it well.

A M E T I S T A

segunda-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2016

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