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Colours

            Life would have been terribly drab if colours did not exist. I cannot imagine a world where there was a total absence of colour. It is enough for us to look at the dawn after the darkness of night to know the difference. Landscapes and seascapes take life from the different shades of greens and blues, the colours of the birds" feathers, the different colours of fish, and the multicoloured flowers.
             We only realise what colour means in our life on a grey wintry day, when the sun does not shine and when all around us is cold. Here we stop to think what the moon must look like in all its monotony of grey or how tiring it would be to live on Mars with its constant red colour. Psychologists believe that in northern countries there is a large number of people who commit suicide simply because there is an absence of light and colour for such a long time, because of the cold dark winters. People are asked to paint their homes in "happy" colours like yellow and green to keep depressions at bay. Just think how happy we are when we see a rainbow I the skies. All those colours make up for the greyness of winter skies.
             Colours bring to mind painters. These could not exist without colours. Very often painters copy nature, other times they imagine a scene and give it imaginary colours. They light up our walls with pictures. Colours in the advertising business are extremely important. The use of certain colours and not others attracts the attention of a would-be buyer even more than words in an advertisement. Wrappers around tinned foods at Supermarkets also play an important part in the sales business and all this because of colours. Photography is also a wonderful art especially a moment in nature becomes immortalised by a clock of a camera. Fashions could not be so prominent if colours did not exist. Young men read chemistry of colours at university to be able to give us wonderful textures and shades of colours on textiles.


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1. Colours of Men

... , soothing, or depressive, and unephatic; optically, they appear to recede and contract. These characteristics are relative, however, since intensity and value also affect the spatial action of warm and cool colours. Intensely coloured shapes appear larger than duller ones of the same size. Light-valued shapes seem to advance and expand while dark-valued ones seem to recede and contract." Blues ... and greens can introduce a cool mood into a room. The level of coolness will depend on the intensity of the colours. Cool colours can also be used to change the appearance of a room, pushing b...

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2. The Many Colours of Canada

... a colourful personality filled with charisma and radiance. As a student in this glittering country, I am proud that Canada has many colours to represent its uniqueness and to symbolize the true meaning of the word "Canadian"- trusting, independent and dynamic. Canada has more colours than the rainbow, especially throughout the four seasons of fall, winter, spring and summer. The beautiful seasons perfectly represent the ... diversity of our welcoming country as Canada's population is incredibly diverse. The many different colours and the hundreds of miraculous shades are parallel to all...

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3. Colours Of Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald used the imagery of colours in his book The Great Gatsby. The colors are used very frequently as symbols, and the different shades create atmosphere in different scenes of the book. White is a clean and ... ...

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4. Art

... of all these details that led the Impressionists into excluding black from their paintings; discard earthly tones and deal almost solely with the seven colours that comprise the solar spectrum. This change, that was about to turn into a revolution in painting, was most profoundly exhibited in the ... would have questioned the inclination of the colour grey towards black or white; the Impressionists questioned whether it was a bluish, greenish, or reddish grey. Colours were no longer thought of as dark and light, or as warm and cool. What interested them was their relation to primary (ye...

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5. Marketing Tourism

... brochure is for people who are going on honeymoons or young couple who what to go on holiday together. Every page has a border to bring out some bright colours to the viewer. I believe that all the photos have been enhanced, as it could not be so beautiful all year around. They are marketing Vanuatu in ... brochure is for people who are going on honeymoons or young couple who what to go on holiday together. Every page has a border to bring out some bright colours to the viewer. I believe that all the photos have been enhanced, as it could not be so beautiful all year around. They are mar...

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6. Does a Tree Have Colour

... is in fact colourless. The only reason we observe colour is because when we perceive things, our senses react and cause us to see different colours. According to the principal of symmetry, there is no reason to believe in the theory of objective colour. We think we know about colour because ... is not a property of the atomic structures of bodies: neither Locke's corpuscularian hypothesis nor the atomic theory of modern physics supposes that the colours we see are properties for the atoms or of collections of atoms" (Landesman, 29). Locke then discusses his two theories about colour. He ...

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7. Painting - Impressionism and Expressionism

... for the female nude, but rather because he used a classical subject within a modern setting. He placed a naked woman with clothed men, which created a contrast with the female's pale colours and the male's dark colours. This vast difference separated the 2 subjects, suggesting that the female was a model or prostitute and not a goddess (like what the salon would have wanted). This painting was seen ... of Expressionism as it displays Kirchner's feelings about war. It goes against the conventional rules of space, perspective and proportion. It also has very expressive brush strokes and br...

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8. Memphis

... in contrast to so called 'normal' every day designs. Memphis rebelled against the dark, humourless design of the 1970's, and offered, bright, colourful, shocking pieces, in contrast to the dark colours of European furniture, which lacked personality and individualism. The designs were remarkable to some, however, because they weren't 'mainstream' designs, they didn't appeal to others. The group's first show ... used in electrical engineering offices and were designed as insulators for electric motors. However, Memphis wasn't interested in the practical properties of plastic laminates they...

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9. Impressionism

... of the investigation into the way light strikes the retina in a number of individual rays and how white light is made up of the colours of the rainbow. Using these pure colours, dabs of paint is placed in the juxtaposition which is placing it side by side. This caused a high keyed tonality. The artist of ... I like the painting I would not buy it to hang on my wall. "Blue Water-lilies" is one of Monet's later pictures. He used vivid colours of blue and green. Brush strokes were both vertical and horizontal, lily pads being horizontally painted and the water with reflections of what looks...

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