In fact, Blue became the favorite color of European populations for their clothing but also as an abstract color. To the questions what is your favorite color? The more frequent answers are Blue, 80 per cent of the American states that blue is their favorite color and as Carlton Wagner pointed it out, this preference starts around six years old and do not change with time. Blue conveys new message in France during the twentieth century. Joan Miro has written, "blue is the color of my dreams" on one of his painting. Blue became a popular color; it became the color of the workers. The expression "bleu de travail" (blue of work) is still factual and symbolizes the clothing worker used to wear. Blue was also the color of uniform to declassify; one will find school with uniform that is dress all with blue. Blue was believed to soften the differences social classes in between the pupils. Similarly blue is the color army used for the navy. The Blue Jeans contr!

As Brusatin mentioned in "A history of colors", the Egyptian obtained the color blue with hard stone such as the sapphire, lapis lazuli and beryl. The fabrication of the color blue was achieved during the Antiquity thanks to two different plants: the Woad (Latin: Guastrum, Vitrum, Isatis, Waida) and the Indigo (small trees which leaves give the indigo color). Those plants were used to tinge clothes. The garments of the time reflected both the color's signification and importance in a society, during the Middle Age the color blue remained discreet. Yet, some villages had more blue clothes than some others due to the proximity of the Indigo trees. The arising of the second millennium witnessed the passage of Blue from a "background color" to a "first plan color". In a few years the status of the color blue not only evolved but also changed, its economic value increased, its trend regarding fashion grew and its place in artistic creation became invasive. In the middle of the thirteenth century, the civilizations open themselves to new colors such as blue, yellow and green. The religion was on of the first one to consider with a higher interest blue since its fabrication with a precious stone was expensive and its use was therefore a sign of homage. For instance, Maria was represented in blue in numerous painting because it was the most expensive color to produce at the time. This blue was obtained with the Lapis Lazuli; its utilization was a sign of religion's deference. The stone was reduced to powder that permit the painter to obtain a deep blue. Religion gave also some answers to men who were questioning about colors. It confers a symbolic value for most of the main color. Brusatin in "A history of colors" clarifies the relation between religion and some colors by associating blue as a Christian color which was the "filters through which liturgical values were secretly passed and by which a communal ecclesial identity was silently expressed" (24). More over, the Church ruled the life in the villages, it indicated the role of color in the village, and people did not have the same right toward colors.

The protestant painters had no longer the monopoly of the chromatic austerity during the seventeenth century as they used to have (we could cite Joachim Patinir as a

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