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Goethe's Theory of Colours, green, green feathers, green leaves, green plants, green trees, psychology of colours
Happy St Patrick’s Day! It seemed appropriate to honour St Paddy and those from the Emerald Isle with a blast of green today. I think Goethe got the feel of green exactly right in his Theory of Colours:
The eye experiences a distinctly grateful impression from this colour. If the two elementary colours [blue and yellow] are mixed in perfect equality so that neither predominates, the eye and the mind repose on the result of this junction as upon a simple colour. The beholder has neither the wish nor the power to imagine a state beyond it. Hence for rooms to live in constantly, the green colour is most generally selected.
And this is why walking in a forest of green trees, sitting on a grassy lawn, or strolling in a garden all make us feel happy. Now, where did I put that paintbrush?
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Think twice about that paintbrush, Annie. As much as I love nature and the greens it produces, I can’t live with it in my home. I only once decorated a room using a soft green and pale yellow (spring colours) and I hated it. Give me greens and yellows any day outside but never indoors. Nature’s colours belong outdoors for me.
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I was only joking about the paintbrush, Joyce. It wouldn’t suit my current home. But my ex and I did once have a green living room and it was a wonderfully tranquil space. I think a lot depends on the colour.
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