Symbolic Color Associations in Goethe’s Farbenlehre and its application in the pictorial work of its early receptors
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https://doi.org/10.23738/ccsj.i92018.07Keywords:
goethe, theory of colors, chromatic polarities, symbology of color, farbenlehre, pictorial color, color circleAbstract
In this article will be recognized the main contributions of Goethe in relation to a symbolic consideration of color for its use in the pictorial practice, from the connection of the chromatic polarities theory proposed by Goethe in the Farbenlehrewith its section on the ‘Effect of Color with Reference to Moral Associations’. A review of Goethe’s Color Circle as the visual manifesto of his work and also to his previousRose of Temperaments will be useful to understand how the German poet was visually thinking in giving a guide for the pictorial color application to the receptors of hisTheory of Colors. Finally, the reception of this symbolical section of the Theory in the contemporary painters Philipp Otto Runge and J. M. William Turner will also be reviewed, and how each painter enriched the chromatic symbology proposed by Goethe from his own interest in religious and / or allegorical themes.
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