is necessary to know the rules of grammar of the language of colors, proceed through the analysis to understand the generation of symbols by prefixing the synthesis governing the system. Physics recognizes
seven colors, which form the solar beam decomposed by the prism, namely violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.
The painting does not support more than five primitive colors, are: white, yellow, red, blue and black, of which the first and last are rejected by physics. The combination of these five colors come out all the nuances. According
symbolism, two principles give rise to all colors, light and darkness.
Light is represented by white and by black darkness. But light exists only by the fire, whose symbol is red. On this basis, the symbolism supports two primitive colors, red and white, black was considered the denial of colors and attributed to the spirit of darkness. Red is the symbol of divine love, the white is the symbol of divine wisdom. Of these two attributes of God, love and wisdom, the creation of the universe emanates.
secondary colors represent the various combinations of the two principles.
The yellow comes from the red and white is the symbol of the revelation of love and wisdom of God.
also emanates from the red blue and white means the wisdom expressed by the life, spirit or breath of God, is the symbol of the spirit of truth.
consists Green by the union of yellow and blue, indicating the expression of love and wisdom in the act, was the symbol of love and regeneration of the soul through the works.
this scheme can be recognized in three grades:
1 The existence itself.
2 The manifestation of life.
3 The act resulting from it.
dominates in the first grade love, desire or will marked by red and white, the second intelligence appears, the word or the verb designated by yellow or blue and in the third, conduct or act finds its symbol in green. These three degrees, reminiscent of the three operations of human understanding, will, reasoning and act, can be found in every color. Observed in these three meanings under varying degrees of light, so the same color indicate three orders of ideas as it appears, first, in which colored light beam, second in translucent bodies and finally, in opaque bodies.
painting could not reproduce these differences we observe in the written monuments of antiquity. Thus, the robes of God shine like lightning, like a flame of fire, like a ray of sun is the colored light that reveals to the prophet's love and the will of the Divine. Precious stones, transparent, form the second degree indicated by the light reflected inwardly refers to the interior the man or the spiritual world, finally, the opaque like the stones and the linen garments, which cast light on its surface, indicating the third grade or natural, which is manifested in the act.
White, for example, means the wisdom of the three grades, but in the first, indicating the white light of divine wisdom, which is truth itself, in the second grade, diamond and crystal are symbols of wisdom spiritual, which has the inner intelligence of the Deity, in the third degree, ultimately, opaque white stone and linen garments indicate natural wisdom or faith abroad, which produced the work.
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