Friday, November 27, 2009

COLOR IN DIFFERENT CULTURES




Color is
1. That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable in terms of the observer or of the light, as:
a. The appearance of objects or light sources described in terms of the individual's perception of them, involving hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources.
b. The characteristics of light by which the individual is made aware of objects or light sources through the receptors of the eye, described in terms of dominant wavelength, luminance, and purity. (ONLINE DICTIONARY.COM)

The truth is we see color is many different ways, we see color from lights and colors that are reflected back to our eye from two-dimensional and three-dimensional surfaces. The interesting thing about surfaces is that they soak up colors differently, making many different visible colors. Colors bring out emotions, symbolism, conceptual dimensions (example, black is hateful, red is lust or love), and color associations (example, loud, quiet, food, dry wet).

Without Color, could you image what are our world would be like?

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