How Colour adds meaning

 

 

 

      How Colour adds meaning

 

 

Colours have an amazing effect on our emotions. Artists often use certain colours to emphasise a particular opinion or mood.

 

Blue

Blue suggests importance and confidence. It is a colour linked with intelligence and stability. In Iran, blue is the colour of mourning.

 

Red

Red signifies importance and power. In some cultures red denotes purity, joy and celebration

 

Green

Green symbolises life, growth, renewal and health. In contrast to this, green is used to represent jealousy or envy.

 

Yellow

Yellow is a warm, cheerful colour. Yellow ribbons are worn as a sign of hope. It is a colour used on warning signs because we link it with danger. In Egypt yellow stands for mourning yet in Japan it means courage.

 

Orange

Orange is a warm and stimulating colour. It gives a feeling of energy and warmth. It is usually linked to the season of autumn.

 

Purple

Purple represents royalty in many cultures and it suggests nobility. In Thailand it is the colour of mourning.

 

BEAUTIFUL WORLD

 

To be quite honest I did this when I was feeling pretty down. Things are not going so great but this montage helped cheer me up a little - hope it makes someone else out there smile too :-)

 

 

Switzerland - Culture & History

Switzerland

does not have a strong artistic heritage, even though many foreign writers and

 

Chillon Castle, Geneva Lake, Switzerland

 

artists (such as Voltaire, Byron, Shelley, James Joyce and Charlie Chaplin) have sojourned there.

Conversely, many creative Swiss such as Le Corbusier, Paul Klee, Alberto, Diego and Bruno Giacometti and Jean-Luc Godard left the country to make their name abroad.

 

Alberto Giacometti

 

Le Corbusier was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887. When he was 29, he went to Paris, where he soon after adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Le Corbusier, as his pseudonym

  Le Corbusier's chapel

He loved Manhattan. He loved its newness, he loved its Cartesian regularity, above all he loved its tall buildings. He had only one reservation, which he revealed on landing in New York City in 1935. The next day, a headline in the Herald Tribune informed its readers that the celebrated architect finds American skyscrapers much too small. Le Corbusier always thought big. He once proposed replacing a large part of the center of Paris with 18 sixty-story towers; that made headlines too.

 

                  Zurich University