Maya blue

Examples of Maya blue in the following topics:

• Art of the Maya

  • The Maya held dramatic rituals within the highly sculptured and painted environments of these precincts.
  • They were made in ceramic workshops and painted with Maya Blue, a dye distinctive to Maya and Aztec artists particularly.
  • The Maya painted vivid narrative scenes on the surfaces of cylindrical vases.
  • Ballplayer, Maya, from Jaina Island, Mexico, 700-900CE.
  • Maya Blue is a pigment that has proven virtually indestructible, unlike other colors that have largely disappeared over time.

• Cultures of Mesoamerica

  • Maya culture reached its peak during the Classical period (ca. 200–900 CE).
  • In Maya culture, we also see one of the earliest systems of art patronage.
  • The layers of the structure probably reflect the Maya belief that the underworld had nine levels.
  • The Maya were among the most advanced cultures of Mesoamerica.
  • The Temple is one of four structures commissioned by the Maya ruler Lord Pakal.

• Architecture of the Maya

  • The Maya had complex architectural programs.
  • The consecutive layers probably reflect the belief, current among the Aztec and Maya at the time of the Spanish conquest, that the underworld had nine levels.
  • As the focus of Maya civilization shifted northward in the Postclassic period, a northern Maya group called the Itza rose to prominence.
  • Maya culture, late 7th century.
  • Describe the characteristic style and functional elements of Maya architecture in the Classic and Postclassic periods.

• Ceramcis of the Veracruz

  • The modern state of Veracruz lies along the Mexican Gulf Coast, north of the Maya lowlands and east of the highlands of central Mexico.
  • The people of ancient Veracruz interacted with people from other Mesoamerican cultures, and this Nopiloa figure displays motifs commonly found in Maya art.
  • Knotted ties, like those around this player's wrist and neck, in Maya pictorial language connote captured prisoners.
  • A motif similar to the Maya mat, a symbol of rulership, appears on the flanged headdress of the ballplayer.
  • Like Maya figurines of this type, the body of this figure is a whistle, a musical instrument used in ritual and ceremony.

• The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition

  • The temples of a Pre-Columbian Maya walled city are situated on 12-meter tall cliffs in Tulum in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; a mural can still be seen on the eastern wall that resembles the Mixteca-Puebla style of art.

• Basic Color Vocabulary

  • The spectrum of colors contained in white light consists of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, in that order.
  • Complementary colors" are found directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as purple and yellow, green and red, or orange and blue, and represent the most aesthetically pleasing combinations of the various colors.
  • "Hue" can be defined as the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different than those described as red, blue, green and yellow, known as the "unique hues" or "pure colors".
  • Usually, colors with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives that refer to their lightness or colorfulness, such as "light blue" or "vivid blue".
  • Television screens, for example, use additive color since they are made up of the primary colors of red, blue and green.

• Color

  • The spectrum of colors contained in white light are, in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
  • Additive color is color created by mixing red, green, and blue lights.
  • Television screens, for example, use additive color as they are made up of the primary colors of red, blue and green (RGB).
  • Complementary colors can be found directly opposite each other on the color wheel (purple and yellow, green and red, orange and blue).
  • Cool colors, on the other hand, are the hues from blue green through blue violet, with most grays included.

• Codices of the Mixtec

  • Nevertheless, these manuscripts allow us to trace Mixtec history from 1550 CE back to 940 CE, deeper in time than any other Mesoamerican culture except the Maya.

• Teotihuacan

  • Among these are the Rain or Storm God (god of fertility, war, and sacrifice), known to the Aztecs as Tlaloc, and the Feathered Serpent, known to the Maya as Kukulcan and to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.

• Expressive and Symbolic Uses of Color

  • Picasso's Blue Period is a term used to define to works produced by Picasso between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.
  • In the latter part of 1901, Picasso sank into a severe depression and blue tones began to dominate his paintings.
  • The painting considered the first of his Blue Period, "Casagemas in His Coffin", was completed later in 1901 when Picasso was sinking into a major depression, which lasted several years.
  • He moved towards subject matter such as the poor and the outcast of society, and emphasized a cool, anguished mood using blue hues as an expressive and symbolic tool in his works .