Kathy Forer on wed 4 aug 04
How old is MLB? It sounds very trendy. Or perhaps it's an
evolution/devolution of flow blue, that oh so provincial Victorian
stuff. Yuan/Ming Dynasty via "Dutch Folly." http://www.gotheborg.com
Blue is a wonderful color: blue spongeware, tole blue, Picasso's blue
period, mulberry, William Morris designs of blue, William the
hippopotamus, Rothko's blues, Yves Klein blue, Lord Krishna, batik,
Tyrian purple, Mexican purple
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/color/blues.html
Even southwest pottery, which interestingly doesn't seem to use an
actual blue, evokes blue atmospherically, particularly the mineral and
polychrome designs
http://www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/southwest/index.htm or the black on
yellow or red.
Unless it's a specific reaction against blue, against man as a
romantic, yearning, unfree mystification of nature, MLB could just as
well be MLR. It sounds as though Mother in Law Blue Plate abuse has
really little to do with blue and a lot to do with the overuse and
fatigue of an idiom.
Kathy Forer
NYC
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