Regarding colours
Posted: 23 May 2009, 14:55
* Too much been said regarding colours and its supposed meaning,but sincerely for me all are any meaningful.
- For example,takes the yellow colour.
All the cheap,clumsy and ready made esoteric way to gain the "holy" wisdom,claims that this colour depicts intelligence.
And if it is towards an intense green-yellow is better...
-But strongly contrary to this supposition,this colour along with black,is a depiction of pain and penance.
Umberto Eco in his wonderful book " Art and beauty in the medieval aesthetic " mentioned this.
Also that white,red and green are benevolent colours.
1-In Gothic medieval art better said later Romanesque art,the colours had symbolism.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_roman
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ll_001.jpg
2-In the Renaissance art,contrary,the colours had an strongly tendency to be descriptive on a realist sense.
. For instance,for a medieval artist the blue symbolize the purest sacred divine wisdom of God.
Instead for the renaissance artist,this blue colour is more a depiction of the sky...
Giotto is a good example of the transition from one colour concept to other and Botticelli even he use colour on a symbolism way,he is closer to a realist depiction.
For him the sky is just blue.
Later at the summit of the belated Renaissance art this is more evident (Paolo Veronese and his masterly "Wedding of Cana " : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... se_008.jpg )
But earlier Piero della Francesca,a painter that I love too much,pushed to show a more realist colour depiction. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_della_Francesca )
-Going farthest the best example of all regarding the realist use of colours is Titian ( Tiziano Vecellio ) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian
- So da cappo,returning to the very beginning of this topic,the colour has a sense in a period-cultural context.
. I keep in my mind the Umberto Eco mention regarding the yellow colour,and still asking me why the infamous,abominable nazi ideas did choose his colour precisely to condemned the jewish brothers with that humiliating yellow star ...
- For example,takes the yellow colour.
All the cheap,clumsy and ready made esoteric way to gain the "holy" wisdom,claims that this colour depicts intelligence.
And if it is towards an intense green-yellow is better...
-But strongly contrary to this supposition,this colour along with black,is a depiction of pain and penance.
Umberto Eco in his wonderful book " Art and beauty in the medieval aesthetic " mentioned this.
Also that white,red and green are benevolent colours.
1-In Gothic medieval art better said later Romanesque art,the colours had symbolism.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_roman
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ll_001.jpg
2-In the Renaissance art,contrary,the colours had an strongly tendency to be descriptive on a realist sense.
. For instance,for a medieval artist the blue symbolize the purest sacred divine wisdom of God.
Instead for the renaissance artist,this blue colour is more a depiction of the sky...
Giotto is a good example of the transition from one colour concept to other and Botticelli even he use colour on a symbolism way,he is closer to a realist depiction.
For him the sky is just blue.
Later at the summit of the belated Renaissance art this is more evident (Paolo Veronese and his masterly "Wedding of Cana " : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... se_008.jpg )
But earlier Piero della Francesca,a painter that I love too much,pushed to show a more realist colour depiction. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_della_Francesca )
-Going farthest the best example of all regarding the realist use of colours is Titian ( Tiziano Vecellio ) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian
- So da cappo,returning to the very beginning of this topic,the colour has a sense in a period-cultural context.
. I keep in my mind the Umberto Eco mention regarding the yellow colour,and still asking me why the infamous,abominable nazi ideas did choose his colour precisely to condemned the jewish brothers with that humiliating yellow star ...