Why do we call blue ’blue’ when in other languages it’s like ’azure’?
Why do we call blue ’blue’ in English? And what can a gallery tell us about a very special name for the colour in other languages?
I was one of 20 Creative Collaborators across the country selected to make social media content for the National Gallery’s 200th birthday. I wanted to go a step further and turn it into a film - my first of hopefully many on the stories of language and colour. You can find out more about the commission here:
Some languages have a blue colour term that comes from neither blao nor lāžward. What do you call it in your language?
Filming: Alessandro Sorenti
Produced and edited by me
This was the first film in Language and Colour. What colour should I do next - and where should I do it?
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