Tham khảo tài liệu 'hướng dẫn vẽ màu nước - phần 12', văn hoá - nghệ thuật, điêu khắc - hội họa phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER The Meaning and Symbolism of Colors Praise be to the palette for the delights it offers. it is itself a work more beautiful indeed than many a work. Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particular 1912 Artists pure pigments squeezed out of tubes onto a palette become a rare instance of color existing as color only unattached and unconnected to ideas objects or people. Upon seeing your freshly setup palette perhaps you experienced that special response to the pure beauty of colors on a palette that many artists have noted in their writing. Of course you then quickly put the pigments to use in the exercises and paintings at which point the colors became a means to an end. But for that moment before you started working with the pigments color existed in its pure beauty independent of connotation or connection. In almost every other instance colors exist as part of something else and have acquired names and meanings through their connection with things feelings and concepts. I56 Color by Betty Edwards Attaching Names to Colors In their exhaustive and extensively documented study Basic Color Terms Brent Berlin and Paul Kay propose that as separate languages developed worldwide color names entered each language in the same order. Black and white were the first to be named followed by red. Next came green followed by yellow or alternatively yellow followed by green. After that came names for blue then brown and finally purple pink orange and gray. In many cultures even today that short list is the extent of color names. In others however including American culture there exists a huge vocabulary of both basic and esoteric color names for example teal olive coral chocolate sea-foam green pumpkin turquoise and eggshell. This is a very recent phenomenon however possibly influenced by color television color computer monitors and most ubiquitously Crayola crayons. In 1909 Binney Smith Co. introduced Crayola crayons with a box of eight colors
