On The Color Language Of Painting

Painting convey the aesthetic experience by Visual signals, color as an important language of painting art stays along with the progress of the human form to create visual image. From the view point of art history, different stages of painting in color reflect different characteristics. Color has became a research object of science to scientists and theorists after photology first made a scientific theory to explain color in modern times. The theories of photology also began to be used to guide the painting creation by more and more artists. Since the artists of Impressionistic express color as picture objects, color has became the most effective ways that artists used to express aesthetic emotion, changing the way that people sees the world again and again.Due to the rapid developing technology of image and information, the social function of recording Visual images that been given to painting in the past are gradually replaced. Modern artists have focused more on how to use drawing this art form to convey emotion, therefore pay more attention to exploring the law of painting language and to studying structural relationships between the various elements of color.Based on how modern theories of color embodies in painting, this essay expounded the progress of how human cognize and apply of color,how the theory of color embodied in painting,the concept of different colors in different historical periods of western painting and the aesthetic of painting that can be formed by color. I looked through a lot of literature of art theory, painting color, color theory, color psychology and refers to a number of art magazines and academic papers about paint colors during the study for the sake of Distinctive argumentation, sufficient evidences and reliable demonstration. Not only gained a lot of knowledge but also learned about the latest developments in painting color theory. Finally had a deeper understanding of color and its forms of beauty in painting by the interpretation and argumentation on color of painting.