{"id":331,"date":"2007-05-03T07:06:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T07:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=331"},"modified":"2007-05-03T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T07:51:51","slug":"chartreuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/05\/chartreuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Chartreuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dante-marioni.jpg\"Variations of chartreuse have been popular for at least the last eight years and the color seems to keep getting hotter and hotter.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dante Marioni’s<\/a> Chartreuse Trio 2006<\/p>\n

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Fall 2006 Runway Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

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As I work on making sample triangles with different clays and different primaries I\u00a0am struck by the amazing range of\u00a0chartreuses that show up\u00a0at the yellow end of the color scales.<\/p>\n

\"charts.jpg\"On most color charts the color yellow green is shown right next to yellow and all the colors in between are missing.\u00a0That’s a shame because so\u00a0many of the beautiful colors that we call “spring greens” are really mostly yellow with just a titch of blue in them.<\/p>\n

For years I called these very yellow Yellow Greens “chartreuses,” not knowing where the name came from. I did a little research and found out that there are two colors of chartreuse<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"chart-green_edited-1.jpg\"\u00a0The new chartreuse is one of the websafe colors midway between yellow and green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The old chartreuse is mostly yellow with a slight bias toward blue.<\/p>\n

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The color is\u00a0named after the herbal liqueur called Chartreuse. I made a special trip to the local liqueur store thinking this would be the best way to see what the color really looks like. Unfortunately there are also two colors of Chartreuse on the shelf.<\/p>\n

\"chartreuse-bottles.JPG\"Green Charteuse is a pale yellow green,\u00a0sharp and at 110 proof it has quite a kick.<\/p>\n

Yellow Chartreuse is very yellow,\u00a0sweeter and 80 proof.<\/p>\n

So which color is the real chartreuse? I don’t know. I’m inclined to use the old definition but as long as\u00a0a\u00a0color\u00a0falls somewhere between a yellow green and a green yellow I think its OK\u00a0to call it chartreuse.<\/p>\n

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\"grande-chart.jpg\"My investigations into chartreuse\u00a0started when I\u00a0read a review for “Into Great Silence,” a movie about the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The color chartreuse takes it name from the liqueur. The liqueur takes its name from the\u00a0monastery. And\u00a0the monastery takes its name from the\u00a0mountains nearby.<\/p>\n

Over\u00a020 years\u00a0ago German director Philip Groening asked the Carthusians monks for permission to make a movie about life in their\u00a0monastery.\u00a0\u00a0Sixteen years later they agreed.<\/p>\n

\"grand-chart-entry.jpg\"Founded in 1084 by Saint Bruno, the Carthusian\u00a0order still practices\u00a0a strict asceticism. The monks come together three times a day to chant the liturgy, and once a week to share a meal and go for a walk. Otherwise they spend their time alone in beautifully simple cells.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As someone who likes quiet – I enjoy music but usually forget to put it on – I was curious about a 2 hour and 40 minute movie with only a few moments of dialogue and no soundtrack. I went\u00a0by myself\u00a0one evening a few weeks ago and, restless at first, let myself sink into the silence.<\/p>\n

I was moved by the slow, poetic interplay\u00a0of images – landscape, architecture, monks working, praying and playing.\u00a0\u00a0Its\u00a0not for\u00a0everyone but I recommend it not as entertainment but more as a form of visual meditation.<\/p>\n

“In our world we learn, at least we assume to learn, by way of new information rushing through our brain everyday. Contemplative life is different.\u00a0Very different. It relies on the same being repeated over and over again: the same rituals, sights, movements, phrases. And by means of repetition, these few elements of everyday life will gain more and more meaning during the course of a life.”<\/em><\/p>\n

From an interview with director Peter Groening.<\/em><\/p>\n

Info on Movie: Into Great Silence<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/p>\n

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Variations of chartreuse have been popular for at least the last eight years and the color seems to keep getting hotter and hotter. \u00a0Dante Marioni’s Chartreuse Trio 2006 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fall 2006 Runway Guide \u00a0 As I work on making sample triangles with different clays and different primaries I\u00a0am struck by the amazing range of\u00a0chartreuses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-with-color-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}