“New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green—the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth.
A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s 15th issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color’s myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes.
Paul Crenshaw and Pedro da Costa Felgueiras peer into the green screen backing a late 15th-century portrait of a cleric.