http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180919-umber-the-colour-of-debauchery
Umber is a conundrum, a rusty riddle of a colour. A cross between the deep redness of blood and the blasé blandness of mud, umber is a havering hue with a haunting humidity all its own. Umber’s ability to ebb and flow between shades of our interior self and those of the exterior world we inhabit make it the perfect pigment for painters as diverse as Bosch and Modigliani, Titian and Velázquez, to create scenes of enduring urgency – scenes we feel as much as see. Swipe umber from the paintbox of art history and the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio’s canvases and the meditativeness of Rothko’s 1962 work Untitled (Umber, Blue, Umber, Brown) would dissolve into drabness.
内容、文体ともに読み応えのあるBBCの記事。
上にあげた部分なんかはもう詩のよう。
筆者は、Kelly Grovierという人。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Grovier
で詩人でもあるらしい。なるほどー。