Color symbolism

The color symbolism is the symbolism of the colors. This individual colors are associated with certain designs. Above all human qualities, feelings and elementary experiences may be associated with colors. Color symbols are more or less generally understood and accordingly "valid" in a culture. They play in the art (eg, painting, film and literature), but also in everyday life play a role.

Meanings

The following are some color symbolisms that are understood in the German language and some other cultures.

  • Red: drama, upheaval, blood (fighting, revenge and death), love, danger
  • Green: Nature, hope, immortality, happiness
  • Blue: Water, Sky, loyalty, constancy, joy, friendship, peace, distance
  • Yellow: Sunlight, eternity, but also negative as envy, hatred, danger ( wasps )
  • White: light, purity, wisdom; in Asian cultures, white stands often for death
  • Black: Death, grief and darkness, black magic, evil; but also fraternity, power and unity can be symbolized with black
  • Grey: Wisdom and Age

Influence of color on the psyche

When people of the same cultural group composed by tradition and education many similarities, but there are also individual differences in the influence of color on the psyche. Such psychological effects of color perception are - intuitively or consciously - used for effects in the artistic design as well as in the fashion and advertising industry. Through the experience results in the simplest relations with the colors, as is the case for the temperature sensitivity.

  • Warm colors: The warm season is determined by the yellow and red tones, open fire by glowing carbon particles has these colors. From the experience and the tradition of the tones as " warm" valid from yellow -green to purple to red inside, so pleasant.
  • Cold colors: The cold, blue water, the turquoise Eisschatten in winter and on icebergs, the " toxic " Blue Green repellent and act cool. Colors that are opposite to the warm colors on the color wheel as "cold" and therefore felt called cold colors.

However, it is green again often regarded as the color of nature as a balancing harmonious and soothing. Rosa, however, is considered " sweet", which is that it is often used in our culture for children's clothing. In addition, an often occurring pink flower color.

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