Yantras

                                  Describing patterns, shapes, structures and colours

Understanding colour and its subjective use in art

Let us analyse colour from an objective and subjective approach: types of colours, their relationship to one another and its function in the French movement The Fauves, led by Henri Matisse, who revolutionised the use of colours in painting  in order to use them as an expressive element of the artist's vision of the world.

         

Colour from marinosa

The psychology of colours

Colours arise particular feelings and emotions. We all have a personal favourite colour or choose a particular one to wear depending on the situation or our state of mind. Evidence of this "psychology of colours" is their use in marketing and advertising.

                                     
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       What meanings do colours convey?