{"id":53297,"date":"2014-03-22T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=53297"},"modified":"2016-03-13T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:56:32","slug":"colors-of-acacia-baileyana-purpurea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=53297","title":{"rendered":"colors of Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them<\/em>.\u201d — John Ruskin<\/p>\n

Such solemn earnestness was a hallmark of the Victorian age and much lampooned, but you won’t find me arguing with those sentiments.<\/p>\n


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\nLots of good reading on the Metro yesterday from the April issue of The New York Review of Books<\/em>, including Garry Wills’ piece on a new exhibit in Ottawa of the paintings and drawings of the eminent Victorian, John Ruskin, “Ruskin: The Great Artist Emerges<\/a>.” Mr. Wills describes Ruskin’s preoccupation with color, quoting from the Elements of Drawing<\/em>: ‘He said there is no such thing in nature as a solid color, but colors are ‘continually passing one into the other<\/em>.'”<\/p>\n

And the slate\/blue\/purple\/grey\/pink Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’ obligingly illustrated Ruskin’s observations on color just before sunset last night.<\/p>\n

There is a website devoted to Ruskin’s Elements of Drawing<\/a>, for anyone itching to get their pencils and sketchbook out today. I’ve got a fishing tackle box filled with mine around here somewhere.<\/p>\n

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