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Posted: 23 Aug 2021

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Colours ~ as Goethe writes about about them

Colours ~ as Goethe writes about about them

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 Dinesh
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Light, Goethe says, cannot contain something darker than itself. Instead, color arises when light collides and mixes with darkness, or when light penetrates a darker medium. Closest to to light, the color yellow is created; it is shadowed light. Closest to darkness, the color blue is created; it is illuminated darkness. The combination of the two primary colors blue and yellow produces green. And so one begins with an inverted color triangle, with blue and yellow at the top and green at the bottom point. The array is rounded out to a color wheel only when the two primary colors blue and yellow are transformed -- enhanced, Goethe calls it -- by further admixtures of darkness. Blue thus becomes purple and yellow becomes orange. Enhancements of purple and orange yield red. Thus one has the polarity of the primary colors yellow and blue, then their enhancement leading to red and their mixture leading to green. The circle colors is closed via polarity and enhancement -- blue on the left, yellow on the right, red on top, green on the bottom -- and the transitions in between: greenish yellow, brown, bright red, etc. always at play are shading of brightening, superimpoistions and admixtures of the primary colors. In all cases, the basic principle is unchanged: light is an ur-phenomenon that cannot be dissected or traced back to something else.
4 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
 Dinesh
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GOETHE ~ Life as a Work of Art
4 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
It looks a bit like Cezanne. Wonderful!
4 years ago.
Dinesh club has replied to Esther club
I realized what you are talking , just today :o(( Thank you
3 years ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
With Cezanne as his inspiration, Rilke writes, “All we have to do is to be, but simply, earnestly, the way the earth simply is.” Rilke knows that for most of us, nothing could be more difficult. We live in our heads, we live for the future, we live for retirement. This is a challenge for those influenced by Western traditions -- Jews and Christin and Muslims: all that living for presumed messiah to come, or to return, or for the future day of judgment; all that longing for salvation when in face paradise is right at hand, and our greatest troubles arise from not understanding that this is so. Paradise is to Cezanne’s basked of fruit. Paradise is in the vase and picture on the table. Paradise, wrote the solitary and mystic Rumi, is a mirror in which you see yourself. In this painting Cezanne hands us the mirror. ~ Page 71

AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY
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