Wonderful interview yesterday at BBC about ISLE OF THE DEAD. No one can believe that in the 16th Century over 10% of the population were courtesans. And some of them were in politics….. We talked about the colour red too. Why Titian loved it – because it’s the colour of eroticism and also because its the only colour that appears to come forward in a painting. So if you put a person against a red backdrop, it literally pulls the figure towards the viewer. Research has also shown that red slightly increases blood pressure, respiration, and heart rate. It’s the [...]
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