Did you see Roberta Smith's article re the play in today's NYT? What do you think of it?
A minor quibble -- sort of like your quibbles over words. Hue refers to a color. Without any adjectives,hue refers to a color at full saturation, meaning as much of that color as possible, like the reddest red. Shade refers to a hue that is modified to a lower value than the hue is at full saturation. Tint refers to a hue at a higher value than the hue is at full saturation. Value refers only to the degree of lightness or darkness a hue has. Any modification of a hue reduces its saturation whether by tinting or shading. That's why a pink, as a tint of red, is less bright or less saturated yet of a higher value. An ideal red at full intensity has a value of "high dark" (one shade lower than middle on a scale of seven values from high light to low dark. Yellow, for instance, has a value of high light, one tint below white). So I get anxious when I read about color "shades" when the real reference is to "tint". The word shade in color terminology does not refer to different colors but only to those having values (darkness) below "middle" on the seven value scale. ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 10:24:04 AM Subject: Re: "What is happening during an 'a.e.'?" In a message dated 4/4/10 7:31:03 PM, [email protected] writes: > At one point > Rothko (played energetically by Alfred Molina) rattles off the names of a > dozen > or so different hues, > I bungled that line. I should have said "...a dozen or so hues/shades of red." .
