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You're conflating colour symbolism with colour harmonies. They are two completely different phenomena. I don't know any visual artist who would claim that colo
by theoh 10y ago
You're conflating colour symbolism with colour harmonies. They are two completely different phenomena.
I don't know any visual artist who would claim that colour harmonies from the art of another culture are incomprehensible/jarring. Actually I would expect to get the opposite answer.
Popular colour combos for interior decoration, though, are naturally going to vary culturally, but (I claim) within a pretty universal system of colour contrasts perceived the same way by everyone. If there's a literature out there on "weird" colour harmonies that don't work for those acculturated in certain cultures, I'd love to see it.
- SuperPaintMan 10y agoI was conflating terms, didn't have my morning cup. There are only a limited number of contrasts to play with so there is a general consensus on how to abuse them and that is near universal. Not so much incomprehensible, just a new way of thinking and slightly jarring. See Picasso and the African masks. I only took a quick look but I did find this little paper on cultural differences between Americans/East Asian in terms of uniqueness/conformity in visual media and how that propagates outward. [PDF] http://php.scripts.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxy906/COMPS/indivdualismandcollectivism/culture%20lit/to%20print/Kim1999culture.pdf http://php.scripts.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxy906/COMPS/indivdua...