... in 1777, the mystically inclined Romantic artist, colour theorist and friend of Goethe, Philipp Otto Runge. His work - especially his painting of The Hulsenbeck Children (above) - obviously had a huge influence on the very strange and beautiful illustrations in Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There. Haunting's the word...
Friday, 23 July 2010
Born on This Day...
... in 1777, the mystically inclined Romantic artist, colour theorist and friend of Goethe, Philipp Otto Runge. His work - especially his painting of The Hulsenbeck Children (above) - obviously had a huge influence on the very strange and beautiful illustrations in Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There. Haunting's the word...
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I always learn something when I read your posts. Just looked up 'colour theory' and the search came up with this curiously fascinating stuff. Colour/color confusion led me to this even more curious site with colours in the enchanted language of Italian. Children's sites are usually the most fun - in any language!
ReplyDeletePS Fleeting glimpse of a butterfly yesterday - hurrah! Unidentifiable as it flitted by so fast.
Hopefully his colour theories were less wonky than Goethes, not his strongest subject and the cause of much mirth among his contemporaries.
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