Colour Expression

Colour is a very powerful tool when expressing emotion in a piece if work. The interpretation of colour and its corresponding emotion is done partly through natural responses but is also governed by taught ideas. Commonly in the current age colours have a predicted emotive paring, red meaning angry, yellow meaning happy etc. The relation between emotion and colour has been assessed multiple times leading to the idea of colours not representing a single emotion but also having negative and positive traits.

The first to categorize colour in such a way was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his work “Color Theory” (Zur Farbenlehre 1808-1810), which present a slightly different perspective of colour meaning then what we know of today.

Claudia Cortes is another that has investigated the meaning of colour in a similar way.

Shirlet Willett's interpretation  outer ring containing positive traits, middle represents emotion and inner ring are negative traits.

outer ring containing positive traits, middle represents emotion and inner ring are negative traits. 

Source: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/verslagen/capita-selecta/CS-Nijdam-Niels.pdf

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