It is the impression on the eyes, created by light, Colours play a very important part in our life. Without existence of the colour our life will be dull. Colours gives us unity and contrasting values. The light which we see daily, is actually not white. It is the mixture of all the colours. Colour is a way that we describe an object based on the way that reflects or emits light. Nature explains this phenomenon, which is called reflection of light through the colourful rainbow. Rainbow colours are nothing but a dispersion of various colours that constitute the whiteness of light. This phenomenon as VIBGYOR. When ever we use to see particular colour, surface absorbs all other from the light and reflects one colour, which we see, when all the colours are absorbed we see black and the presence of all the colours is white.
DEFINITION OF COLOUR
1. "Colour Harmon is the basis of colour theory".
2. Poussion, "One may speak of friendship or enimity of colour. Colours play a major role in all ages and will continue to do so among all people. Colours, tell us who is who?
IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR
- It is one of the essential element of decoration.
- Coloured clothes are used to differentiate and avoid mix ups.
- Coloured cards are used in industries and electric connection.
- Colours indicates age and are used in clothing, furniture, architecture, and many other objects.
- Colours give a close portrayal of the reality
- It is the part and parcel of art and life.
- It plays the predominant role because art can also be defined as an expression of certain emotions, feelings and scenic beauty with the help of different weak representational colours.
- It differentiates between life and death.
- It helps us to express, to identify, to classify and to understand things. Their different attitude like, joy, sorrow, depression, hatred. It makes direct appeal to our senses.
- Colours give us unity, clarity and contrast.
- Colour is descriptive and appeals to emotions, gives better visibility and retentive value(dark to light and light to dark).
- It creates deep impression quickly and attracts attention.
- It creates symbolic atmosphere to suggest reality, quality and insists for recognition.
- Colour have many functions and different colour create different feelings.
- Colour creates elasticity of will, likeness dislikeness. They compel, activity to craze, stimulating effect on nervous system, develops aesthetic judgement, hope, relaxation, depth of feeling and variabilities etc.
KINDS OF COLOURS
1. PRIMARY COLOURS:- These are the colours which can not be obtained by mixing the other colours. These are directly obtained from minerals and animals, water etc. These are RED, YELLOW, BLUE.
2. SECONDARY COLOURS:- These are those colours which can be obtained by mixing two primary colour
Red + Yellow = Orange
Red + Blue = Violet
Yellow + Blue = Green
3. TERTIARY COLOURS :- They are obtained by mixing one primary and one secondary colours
Green +Purple = Olive Green
Purple + Orange = Russet
Orange + Green = Cetron
4. COMPLEMENTARY OR CONTRASTING COLOURS:- These are two colours diametrically opposite on the chromatic circle for example, Blue is complimentary to orange.
5. WARM COLOURS:- RED, YELLOW and ORANGE re warm colours. Faces turns red when they are warm. Hot that sun glows yellow to orange.
6. COOL COLOURS:- BLUE, GREEN and VIOLET. The examples are cold oceans are blue, the people cool off in shades of green trees.
EFFECTS OF COLOURS
- RED:- It has a stimulating effect on one's senses. It represents excitement, revolution, anger, war, danger, hatred, passion and blood etc. It is used for the depiction of powerful emotions, irritation. It is force and power of the will.
- YELLOW:- It stands for warmth, richness, wisdom, fire, cheerfulness etc. A face turned yellow out of fear. It depicts the human nature.
- ORANGE:- Force of will, activeness, aggression, knowledge, fire, autumn, warmth, desire, excitement, domination etc.
- Blue:- It suggests coolness, truth, sadness, unchangeability, sweetness, relaxation, depth of feeling, royalness etc.
- GREEN:- It shows coolness, satisfaction, safety, fertility. rest and growth etc.
- VIOLET:- It stands for death, coolness mystery.
- PINK:- Pink stands for faminity, delicacy, softness and happiness.
- GREY:- It stands for ageing, depression, darkness, fear, depth etc.
- BLACK:- It signifies sorrow, evil, depression, darkness, fear and depth etc.
- WHITE:- This represents purity, calmness, dignity, light, peace, strength and hope etc.
So colours play a very important role in our life and without colour the glory of art will be lost.
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