Colors and Their Character: A Psychological Study

di Benjamin Jan Kouwer (Autore)

Springer, 1949

In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the "character" of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word ~wn for "color" later came to mean also the character of a living being (8z, 414). Mantegazza even speaks of the "soul" of a color. A fine example of the intensity with which colors may be experienced is the following quotation from Sartre (204, 25). An artist coming from a cafe enters the sunlit street: "toutes les couleurs s'etaient allumees en meme temps et lui faisaient fete, comme en 29, c'etait le bal de la Redoute, le Camaval, la Fan- tasia; les gens et les obj ets s' etaient congestionnes; le violet d'une robe se viola

• Autore: Benjamin Jan Kouwer
• Editore: Springer
• Anno: 1949
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 195 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789401182355

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