🎨 The symbolism of colours with Michel Pastoureau #thread in #colour

🔵 Blue

🌊 Quiet,
🐑 Conformism,
🕵️ Discretion
🔴 Red

🔥 Fire and blood,
❤️👹Love and hell,
🤑 Prideful, full of ambition & power-hungry,
🤕 Lack of professionalism,
💰 Sign of power
⚪ White

✨ Purity,
🧒 Innocence,
👶☠Life and death,
🔱 Divine,
🛁 Cleanliness,
❄️ Cold
🍏 Green

👿 Hidden danger,
📉 Instability,
⚡🌿Ecology
📒 Yellow

😳 Disgracefulness,
🛂 Foreigner,
⛔🌏Stateless🌎🌍,
🤨 Distrust,
🔪 Betrayal
⚫ Black

☠️ Mourning,
🕴️ Elegance,
👩‍🎓 Serious
Half-colour
🌸 Pink

🤗 Tenderness,
🏳️‍🌈 Diversity,
🤟 Tolerance
Brown

💩 Dirt,
💲🚫Poverty,
💪 Brutality,
🙅‍ Abuse
🍊 Orange

🌶️ Heat,
🤣 Joy,
🌿 Tonus / Healthy,
👎 Vulgarity
🍆 Purple

🧟 Half-mourning,
👵 Old women,
Penitence
Grey

😔 Sadness,
😰 Melancholy,
🙄 Boredom,
🧓 Old age,
🧠 Intelligence
Sources:

Les couleurs expliquées en images - Michel Pastoureau & Dominique Simonnet

Couleurs le grand livre - Michel Pastoureau & Dominique Simonnet

Les couleurs de notre temps - Michel Pastoureau

Cover from Chris Lawton

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