"Color Symbol" In Vision Arts

"Color is the first essential ingredient of vision."And in the visual transmission process, some colors with special meaning and the nature of symbol have become the kind of visual language that has the largest cognition and dissemination. However,"color symbol"refers to different things under the different environment, because the association of color is always related to a certain culture. Especially, nowadays in the global cultural atmosphere in which eastern and western culture mutually differentiate and depend on each other, the color civilization of ancient China is second to none in the world in the respect of its producing time, its influence depth and its cover scope. Therefore, in this research, China becomes the first job site of the color research because of its continuous history of civilization. This thesis induces the color culture bearing the symbol thought in ancient China. If we make the approximate division to the color symbol development course in ancient china, then the ancient time is the sprouting time, the pre-qin falls into the formative period, post-qin is the comprehensive period of expansion, and the modem age is the conformity time.In its developing process, the color symbol is limited by the productive force levels especially by the pigment manufacture and the dyeing skills, which decides the color symbol is under the control of certain social class, so that it became part of the"ritual music"culture in ancient China. Under the premise of application, the color symbol also have the character of art and esthetics, because it originated in the human emotion and has released humanity's color imagination. As the edge subject...