colour symbolism

  • role in religious symbolism

    TITLE: religious symbolism and iconography: Diagrammatic and emblematic
    SECTION: Diagrammatic and emblematic
    ...Latin cross, Tau (T), ankh, Saint Andrew’s cross (X), and forked (Y)—may symbolize human beings and their extremities. Among various peoples and in different religions a number of basic colours have at times different and sometimes even opposite meanings. White, for example, may signify joy and festivity or death and sadness. Red has the most pronounced symbolical value: it refers...
  • views of Kandinsky

    TITLE: Wassily Kandinsky: Bauhaus period
    SECTION: Bauhaus period
    ...und Linie zu Fläche (“Point and Line to Plane”). In his first treatise, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, he had emphasized in particular the supposed expressiveness of colours, comparing yellow, for example, to the aggressive, allegedly earthly sound of a trumpet and comparing blue to the allegedly heavenly sound of the pipe organ. Now, in the same spirit, he...