Collaboration Canvas

Monica's original canvas focused on color theory, and how color affects how we see the world. She illustrated many different aspects of color theory, from the combination of different colors, to the connotations certain colors hold. She also included a poem about the color purple, which sparked me idea as to how I would incorporate color theory into my unit plan. While Vonnegut often uses the color blue as a repeated motif within his novel Slaughterhouse Five, I figured it would be helpful to delve into what the color blue means within the book, as well as how color is often used to symbolize ideas or emotions within works of art, poetry and literature. Vonnegut used the color blue multiple times to describe the color of the character, Billy Pilgrim's feet, while he is on the brink of frostbite and disease. Blue is used often as a reminder of our fragility and as a reminder of death, a dark theme which he stifles with the use of his apathetic and disillusioned narrative voice. This reminded me of the poem "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" by Wallace Stevens, who describes the monotony and apathy of society with the use of color, or the lack thereof. This led to a connection to Picasso's Blue Period, in which he inadvertently expressed his depression and malcontent through a slew of paintings in which he used monochromatic hues of blue.

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