What are the meanings of colors and what are their implications?
- Suzan Alsaadi
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 12, 2023

When you look at the painting and look at its details, It reflects the psychological state inside you and the circumstances in which you live. All colors, cold and warm, have affected us. For a moment, you feel that it represents and tells our reality.
And there is a reason why we are attracted to one painting rather than the other and to the colors more than another. Therefore, we must study the meanings of colors in the art of painting, as it is the language of expressionism.
This is the language that can communicate the artist's thoughts, feelings, and feelings, and perhaps you can learn more about the artist through his paintings and the things he goes through.
As long as we talk about painting, we must know the basic colors from which all colors are derived, which are "red, blue, and yellow." By mixing these colors with each other in a binary way, for example, we get the third color.
And mixing red with yellow, we get orange, and the derivatives of these two colors are called fiery colors; that is, they symbolize activity and illumination, such as the color of the sun, fire, and the like. Blue mixes with red, and we get purple by mixing it with orange. We get shades of brown, which is the color of brown. Black and white are neutral colors that are used either by adding white to lighten the color or black to darken it.
Colors have meanings.
Yellow color: Yellow is basically an emotional trigger, and therefore it is considered the strongest color. We have attributed it to having varying psychological effects according to the spectrum. Yellow, in its appropriate degrees, goes with our morale and enhances our self-confidence. It is the color of confidence and optimism, but with the degrees of others present in color planning, it can lead to low morale and self-esteem, and therefore our fears may develop and our fear and anxiety increase.
Orange radiates warmth and happiness. The color of warmth and passion indicates giving and overcoming crises.
Blue is the color of trust and responsibility; it is the color of the mind, as it is considered a basic cradle and influences us mentally. Dark blue stimulates thinking clearly and serenity, whereas light blue calms and calms the mind and helps to focus.
Although research shows over and over again that blue is the world's favorite color, it may appear to him as a cold, unemotional, and bloodless color.
Red is a warm and positive color that indicates a pioneering and leadership spirit and highlights ambition and determination. It has energy and passion. It also indicates willpower, gives confidence and activity, and symbolizes war and anger.
Green is the color of growth, the color of spring, renewal, and rebirth. It renews depleted energy, is a haven to escape from modern life, and helps to relax. Lovers of this color tend to be peaceful and have the ability to love and give to others.
It is a color that mediates the colors of the rainbow, and it is the color of balance. It has a more important concept than people realize. When the ocean around us contains an abundance of green, and here he means trees and plants, then it is evidence of the presence of water and therefore lessens the possibility of starvation. The presence of green gives us reassurance. On a negative level, it indicates stagnation.
Purple and violet: The difference between purple and violet is that the latter appears clearly in the colors of the rainbow spectrum, while purple is a mixture of red and blue, both of which contain the energy and strength of red and spirituality and peace from blue. In the meaning of the colors, purple and violet are the colors of the dreamer who needs to escape from the practical aspects, and from the perspective of color psychology, purple and violet have the ability to harmonize between the mind and emotions and between thought and activity. It inspires unconditional love and self-denial devoid of "ego", and this color is considered the color of creators in various artistic and literary fields.
Brown color: This color evokes in us nostalgia for the past, and it is the color of the earth, wood, and desert. Brown usually comes out between red and yellow with a large percentage of black, while he has the same seriousness and strength as black, but he is more popular and considers us together rather than being supportive.
For example, the colors in artists' paintings Like Pablo Picasso, who went through a phase during his painting he called his "blue phase."
And that refers to a period of sadness he experienced and suffered from, just as the pink phase in maintenance indicated happiness and joy. Another example of the paintings of the artist Van Gogh, his famous painting The Night of the Stars, revealed to us his psychological state at that stage that he produced at the beginning of his feelings of loneliness and depression and the beginning of epileptic seizures that were attacking him, which prompted him to produce paintings of silent dark skies in which the stars appear as flaming suns, and his paintings became less luminous in existing colors, and the golden color that he loved disappeared and turned into a color. In addition to the use of Prussian blue in several paintings, it reflects the mental and physical dispersion that the artist suffers from.
On the authority of Salvador, he was represented in the field of surrealism, expressing it in a mysterious manner with unfamiliar forms and unconventional phenomena, which is a distinctive method that aims to address the unconscious. After the outbreak of the war, its colors suggest death and gloom, and its flow suggests a sense of fear and pain, and this is noted in the person of the painting and its surrender to the reality that the artist depicted in it.
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