Professional Documents
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Introduction
Clean and
Innocence
new
and Purity beginnings
Virtuous
and pious Neutrality
feeling
Equality and
Healthy
Unity
“The first of all single colors is white … We shall set down white for the
representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth;
green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci
How the Color White Affects Us Physically
AA Japanese
Japanese woman
woman wear wear aa white
white
kimono
kimono on on first
first ofof the
the three-
three- day
day
wedding
wedding ritual.
ritual. ItIt symbolizes
symbolizes herher death
death
from
from her
her birth
birth family
family andand invokes
invokes her
her
new
new societal
societal status.
status.
After,
After, 1960s,
1960s, ornate
ornate kimonos
kimonos with
with
heavily
heavily brocaded
brocaded or or embroidered
embroidered jackets
jackets
came
came in,
in, but
but all
all were
were wornworn with
with aa simple
simple
white
white kimono
kimono underneath.
underneath.
In western Africa, white is the traditional
color for weddings. The groom wears a
white dashiki and the woman a white
kaftan
Wilson’s work portrays people dressed in the basic funeral colors of black and white. The white clad figures represent the old
world (traditional African custom) of wearing white while the figures dressed in black represent the contemporary western dress.
The painting shows these two traditions are coexisting.
WHITE
IN ATHLETICS AND SPORTS
Facts
As the opposite of the saturated scheme, the neutral scheme
uses colors that have been grayed down. This diffused palette
is perfect for foggy landscapes, white- on- white subjects, and
scenes with a soft, mellow mood.
Neutral Scheme
Neutral scheme- Advantages
• Easier to choose.
• Lightens the mood.
• Can be used to blend in or set apart features in a room.
Disadvantages
Advantage
s
Disadvantages
It shows its age
It can be stark
It interrupts the flow
• “White…is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative
thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black…God paints in many
colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so
gaudily, as when He paints in white.” — G. K. Chesterton
WHITE MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Richard Meier
Pritzker Award acceptance speech excerpt
White- Primary Colour
“Spotless” feeling that, for the right site,
feels completely effortless.
Sometimes sterile effect is too strong, even
to the point of distraction, which counters
its primary purpose.
The shoe company etq uses a dominant off-
white background to keep the users'
attention where it belongs: the shoes.
Pure whites, as they are so clean and pristine, often have a bluish
undertone, rendering them very cool- looking and appropriate to wear
with clear, light, bright, mid, or deep cool colors.
The warmer whites that lean more to cream work best with warm
colors, again in light, mid, bright, or deep warm tones.
White in fashion
Favourite- Who prefer - are neat and immaculate in their clothing and homes.
Recall of youth and simplicity and a longing to be young again.
White flowers are universal peacemakers. Colors that clash together coexist when white is incorporated. A
loud- colored garden attains refinement with drifts of white flowers.
Most visible color in the shade garden and will draw the eye to a dark corner.
Color of choice for twilight and moon gardens. White flowers are blessed with exceptional fragrance.
Ivory and cream flowers soften hot colors and add warmth to cool garden shade- sort of the perfect buffer
plant but may look dirty against pure whites and murky against shades of orange.
Dennis Oppenheim, Color Mix
- Mixture of red, pink and white flowers to stimulate the mixing of red and white
wine.
White- one color garden