Mia and her roommates, on a night out, sashay down the street in dresses of red, yellow, green, and blue — hot primary hues to match the mood.
In a twist on the classic Thonet bentwood No. 14 chair, the Haussmanns knitted together three chairs painted in primary hues, their backs meshed in a graceful jumble like Martha Graham dancers.
Since the 1994 publication of "Red Azalea," a splashy memoir that recreated her adolescence during the Cultural Revolution, Min has continued to paint historical canvases, casting a series of novels in the primary hues of folk art.
The complementary colour to one of the primary hues is the mixture of the other two; the complementary to red pigment, for example, is green that is, blue mixed with yellow.
Elsewhere a gorgeous painting of floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles in red and blue by Mark Rothko is paired with a similarly luminous landscape by Pierre Bonnard, and a vividly optical grid painting in blues and greens by Ad Reinhardt converses with grid paintings in black, white and primary hues by Piet Mondrian.
Ombre roots and bleached ends have had their moment in the sun – the new way to wear colour in your hair is with carefully woven extensions that blend brave, primary hues (such as cobalt and crimson at Yohji Yamamoto) throughout the bulk of your own shade.
His vision of '80s graffiti-ridden New York meant that full-on bling, puffas and primary hues ruled at Moschino.
In much the way that color arises from the visual system's comparison of retinal cones, whose limited sensitivity ranges correspond roughly to primary hues, we might then hope to find relatively simple biological explanations for the rich variety of emotions.
Sharp shapes in primary hues jutting out of asymmetric tailoring, blown-up checkerboards as dresses and a precise take on slinky satin bias-cut skirts worn with nude tights that morphed into heels were just some of the things that ensure Tait doesn't want to do things the easy way.
