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Bringing colour to life: Gold

27/7/2018

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That it exists is beyond doubt, but is gold actually a colour?
Throughout time artist the world over have used gold in their art work, to symbolise extravagance, wealth, riches and excess.
The colour gold is a warm colour that can be either bright and cheerful, like on these Burmese statutes ,or
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it can be more sombre and traditional; mind you, in this photograph Buddha looks as though he's smiling!
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In all of these the gold colouring is from the application of gold leaf not an actually pigment paint. Part of the allure of gold is it's colour and as it's a metal it's scarcity and therefore value.  Cloth woven with gold threads has been around since Roman times and is often associated with wealth and Royalty - imagine how sumptuous and glittering the meeting of King Henry VIII and Francis I of France would have been in what became known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.  Henry is reported to have had a marquee made entirely from golden cloth!
Gold has also been used to inspire awe and wonder; is seen as the colour of reverence and is often used in religious iconography and on statues.  Last year in Myanmar I lost count of the number of golden Buddhas I saw. 
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Despite living very economically challenged lives I was amazed as hundreds of people bought small squares of gold leaf to apply to the surface of an already glittering Buddha.
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And the sight of so many golden stupas in the harsh mid day sun was enough to burn the image onto the back of your eyes.
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The colour gold is closely associated with yellow and brown.  Closer to home, think of the golden canopy of autumnal leaves against the cooling blue autumnal sky or
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a host of golden daffodils in springtime!
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A meadow full of buttercups, nodding their golden heads or 
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as they are just now - golden brown (or more accurately Wheatabix brown, and no, that isn't a Farrell & Ball colour!
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From the golden skins of Finnish smoked fish to
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golden Easter bunnies, gold is an enduring choice of colour.

It's just started to rain...so may be our next colour will be green!

Best wishes
​Hazel & Terry
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