The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, “you have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”
The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
-Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), The Man with the Blue Guitar
About Blue:
- The word for blue didn’t exist in many cultures. The ancient Greeks had no term for the color blue.
- Until the invention of synthetic color people only had a few substances to create blue paint. Blue does not appear in a prehistoric rock paintings.
- Today blue can be a positive color, however in ancient Europe it was despised and often feared.
Famous Logos Using Blue:
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