Who speaks in colors gives the world a face
A small symbolism of the primary colors red, blue, yellow and green
A small symbolism of the primary colors red, blue, yellow and greenSighted and not color-blind people experience the colors every day in nature. Accustomed to them, we think nothing of them when we encounter them. But colors are more than just present. Constance theologian, philologist and psychologist Ingrid Riedel, for example, argues that colors have a symbolic meaning for the observer that is related to the experience in nature. Some of her interpretations of the three primary colors and the color green, based on scientific tests and investigations, provide an insight into the impact of colors.Talking the Blue of the Sky
Dark blue represents the mind, thus the satisfied or unsatisfied need for tranquility, contentment, peace, human or professional bond, attachment, loyalty and unity. For example, the stars of the flag of the United Europe are on a blue background, and the flag of the United Nations is also blue. Ultramarine and indigo are called the colors of dreams, mysticism and the unconscious. Cobalt conveys clarity, rationality and spirituality, whereas the light sky blue stands for reverie and unreality. According to Goethe, blue emanates a restless soft, yearning sensation. He speaks of a "charming nothingness" that draws one into itself. Max Lüscher observed an increased need for blue in exhaustion and illness. Wassily Kandinsky sees in blue a deepening color that calls man, the deeper it is, the more into the infinite and awakens in him the longing for the pure and the supersensible.
Red with rage
The scale of red ranges in its emotional expressiveness from aggression, destruction and death to love, devotion and sacrifice. To vermilion, for example, fire and Eros (sexual driving force) is presented. To carmine: Blood, strength, power and love. To purple - the according to Goethe "true, pure, neither into the yellow nor into the violet pulling red" - royalty, right, justice, distance as well as reverence for the sublime. Red warns and means danger (traffic signs), but also stands for help (fire department). "In the morning red reflects the tender awakening of feelings." In blood red, the will to change the world is expressed through violence and terror. Sensations such as warm, hot and restless are associated with red. Other expressive values are freshness, vitality, increase of life, closeness, sensuality, (blind) passion, excitement, turmoil and threat to life. Red is also the color of vice. And: Red is the favorite color of childhood.
Green behind the ears
Green is most often associated with meadow, vegetation and forest. Green is perceived as a color that flows into the eyes with a mild fullness that is positively calming. Green is experienced as gentle, friendly and peaceful. There is talk of a meadow feeling that invites one to rest, rest and daydream. Goethe described the harmonizing effect with the words, "One cannot go on, one does not want to go on." The primal experience is that after each winter, with the new green of the meadows comes at the same time the hope of warmer days, the coming harvest, consequently the preservation of life. Green generally stands for growth, development and fullness of life. This development is expressed in expressions such as "greenhorn". However, the color green also symbolizes the ability of inner restraint, accumulation and accumulation of stimuli.
Yellow with envy
Yellow tends to be particularly ambivalent: the scale of tones ranges from warm golden yellow, the (sun)yellow of life, to pale and broken yellow
of disease and death. (Jaundice, kidney disease, nausea and symptoms of poisoning are expressed in the yellowing of the skin). "In yellow," Goethe said, "light triumphs in color. It carries with it the nature of light," of the sun, of light, of serenity, and of knowledge. The robe of the Greek sun god Helios was yellow. Buddhist monks and nuns wear a saffron yellow robe as a sign of their quest for light and enlightenment. Yellow, awakens associations
such as the hope for happiness. On the other hand, it is associated with experiential terms such as exaggeration, frivolity, excitement, expenditure, wastefulness and importunity, as well as medical terms such as jaundice. Max Lüscher has observed that yellow is rejected whenever it is overstimulated, and blue is then often preferred. As a garish signal color, yellow warns of radioactivity. In the Third Reich, Jews were marked with a yellow star.
Ernst Weber
Ingrid Riedel, "Colors in Religion, Society, Art and Psychotherapy," Kreuz Verlag, ISBN 3-7831-0700-8.
Dark blue represents the mind, thus the satisfied or unsatisfied need for tranquility, contentment, peace, human or professional bond, attachment, loyalty and unity. For example, the stars of the flag of the United Europe are on a blue background, and the flag of the United Nations is also blue. Ultramarine and indigo are called the colors of dreams, mysticism and the unconscious. Cobalt conveys clarity, rationality and spirituality, whereas the light sky blue stands for reverie and unreality. According to Goethe, blue emanates a restless soft, yearning sensation. He speaks of a "charming nothingness" that draws one into itself. Max Lüscher observed an increased need for blue in exhaustion and illness. Wassily Kandinsky sees in blue a deepening color that calls man, the deeper it is, the more into the infinite and awakens in him the longing for the pure and the supersensible.
Red with rage
The scale of red ranges in its emotional expressiveness from aggression, destruction and death to love, devotion and sacrifice. To vermilion, for example, fire and Eros (sexual driving force) is presented. To carmine: Blood, strength, power and love. To purple - the according to Goethe "true, pure, neither into the yellow nor into the violet pulling red" - royalty, right, justice, distance as well as reverence for the sublime. Red warns and means danger (traffic signs), but also stands for help (fire department). "In the morning red reflects the tender awakening of feelings." In blood red, the will to change the world is expressed through violence and terror. Sensations such as warm, hot and restless are associated with red. Other expressive values are freshness, vitality, increase of life, closeness, sensuality, (blind) passion, excitement, turmoil and threat to life. Red is also the color of vice. And: Red is the favorite color of childhood.
Green behind the ears
Green is most often associated with meadow, vegetation and forest. Green is perceived as a color that flows into the eyes with a mild fullness that is positively calming. Green is experienced as gentle, friendly and peaceful. There is talk of a meadow feeling that invites one to rest, rest and daydream. Goethe described the harmonizing effect with the words, "One cannot go on, one does not want to go on." The primal experience is that after each winter, with the new green of the meadows comes at the same time the hope of warmer days, the coming harvest, consequently the preservation of life. Green generally stands for growth, development and fullness of life. This development is expressed in expressions such as "greenhorn". However, the color green also symbolizes the ability of inner restraint, accumulation and accumulation of stimuli.
Yellow with envy
Yellow tends to be particularly ambivalent: the scale of tones ranges from warm golden yellow, the (sun)yellow of life, to pale and broken yellow
of disease and death. (Jaundice, kidney disease, nausea and symptoms of poisoning are expressed in the yellowing of the skin). "In yellow," Goethe said, "light triumphs in color. It carries with it the nature of light," of the sun, of light, of serenity, and of knowledge. The robe of the Greek sun god Helios was yellow. Buddhist monks and nuns wear a saffron yellow robe as a sign of their quest for light and enlightenment. Yellow, awakens associations
such as the hope for happiness. On the other hand, it is associated with experiential terms such as exaggeration, frivolity, excitement, expenditure, wastefulness and importunity, as well as medical terms such as jaundice. Max Lüscher has observed that yellow is rejected whenever it is overstimulated, and blue is then often preferred. As a garish signal color, yellow warns of radioactivity. In the Third Reich, Jews were marked with a yellow star.
Ernst Weber
Ingrid Riedel, "Colors in Religion, Society, Art and Psychotherapy," Kreuz Verlag, ISBN 3-7831-0700-8.
