Orange and Country

Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands.

Because its royal family of Orange-Nassau used to own the principality of Orange. Consequently, in modern Dutch society, the word Dutch Oranje, 'orange' is often associated with the ruling royal family of the Netherlands

Orange is the colour of choice for many of the national sports teams and their supporters. The nickname of the Dutch national football team is Oranje.

In the Irish flag, the color orange represents the Protestant religion, as opposed to the Catholic religion in green. The white symbolized the peace between these two religions.

Orange and Art

• Impressionnism 1874 à 1886

Is a French art movement of the nineteenth century. It marked the failure of modern art with the academic.
The subjects of the Impressionists are real and they interpret in their own way. Study of outdoor light is an essential element of movement, and the dark colors for use of pure colors like the orange.

• Expressionnism : Europe, 1890-1939 The movement of the twentieth century.
Synonym of "Modern Art", the artwork becomes a medium in which the artist developed his inner unrest deal with moral and political tensions generated by this post-war society.
The work is provocative will face a mid-bourgeois art.

• Fauvism : France, 1903-1908 At the Salon des Independants of 1905, which expose artists such as Matisse, Marquet, Manguin, the critic Camille Mauclair exclaims: "They threw a pot of colors to the image of the public”, this sentence translated what is Fauvism.
Indeed, based on provocation of pure color, Fauvism was not a movement theory. He wants to end the official art and legacy of Impressionism. • Pop art :

American culture has influenced many artists Pop art. The origins of Pop art art mainly in Britain, but several works of art from Pop art to America.

Andy Warhol Warhol is regarded as the emblem of the Pop art movement

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