True Blue Stands Out In An Earthy Crowd Analysis

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Natalie Angier “True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd” she briefly explains how the color blue is the only color in nature that does not change color if you add a light or take light from it. For instance, when light is added to red it turns pink when light is added to blue it turns a lighter blue. Natalie also explains that in a worldwide survey, the color blue is favored over any other color.
Although we may never understand all the implications and complexities of the color blue, we have discovered interesting meaning in nature of the color blue. [The Pollia fruit is interesting] Angier (2012) Dr. Vignolini and her colleagues determined that the lentil-size fruit reflected back 30 percent of the light cast upon it; the highest reflectivity for any land-based biological product known. Dr. Vignolini also goes into detail about how blue, commonly considered calming and pleasant is not always tranquil. Blue can be a color
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Angier (2012) “Pablo Picasso fell into a severe depression, and he began painting images of beggars, drunks, the poor and the halt, all famously rendered in a palette of blue.” In The Denver News Paper (2008) The Author explains how Colors affect your physiological being through the waves that they send off. For example, the Author brings up how white holds the same intensity as other fluorescent colors, and that it does not make a good base color for walls. The Writer also brings up a few other interesting color facts such like Denver Post (2008) “A guy might think of the red power tie, he puts on to perhaps give himself a little more confidence, or for the ladies, those cool blue jeans that she slips into when she wants to relax. Essentially, you are medicating yourself and others for a desired feeling or effect with the use of color. Marketing people use the psychology of color every day to stimulate us to buy or to feel a certain