Color is a real miracle. Each person sees and cognizes the world in flowers. But there are only three main ones: blue, yellow, red. Other shades are obtained by mixing them. The “language” of flowers is not connected with culture and race, it is international.
Warm and cold colors
These are conventions, but they help in cognition. For example, the sun at sunset is red, during the day - yellow or orange. These shades are associated with warmth, vitality, joyful emotions. Or another, for example, the starry night sky, the sea seems cold to us and the blue color suits them best. The blue hue also refers to cold tones, but it is closer to warm and causes other emotions in people.
Brightness or tone
This is the presence in any color of a different amount of white or black. Initially, red looks almost like black, but adding white to it, it gradually begins to lighten and turns pink and then completely turns into white. Black color may also be different.
Hue
This concept also means color. All spectral colors are divided into primary, of which there are seven.
Between them are the so-called transitional colors and the one that is closest to the main one is called a shade. For example, between red and orange there are also tones in which there is more than one or another color. The closest to red is its shade.
Color name origin
What is the crimson color? In synonymous dictionaries, it is bloody, red, scarlet, crimson, crimson, cherry, purple. In Church Slavonic - it’s black, scarlet, red.
There are two groups of paint or color designation: ancient, it is white and black; new, coming from foreign languages.
- Crimson and crimson color. In a common word, crimson called red paint and its shades. The result is two names: crimson and crimson. The first is a bright pure red, the second is a thick red color.
- Red. The scarlet color in Ancient Russia was called red or scarlet, since the paint was prepared from a certain type of worms (worms). The Old Slavonic name of red is black, that is, lovely, beautiful. The root of this word red means that which undoubtedly pleases the eye - a red fellow, a red maiden, a red sun.
- Burgundy. Mean dark red. The name was borrowed from the French language.
About the leaves
In countries where there are four seasons, it is possible to observe an amazing phenomenon - the life cycle of leaves, starting from the appearance of a kidney and up to changes in green foliage to a crimson color, and then yellow. By their appearance, you can determine:
- Are there enough nutrients, including micro and macro elements with water;
- nutritional balance;
- plant health status.
For example, with an excess of acids coming in with water, a reddish hue forms at the edges of the leaves. In the autumn leaf fall, trees and shrubs are freed from many harmful substances accumulated in the leaf plates. Their redness and yellowing is a clear sign of change. In the absence of light, the formation of chlorophyll fades and the leaf loses its green color. It is during this period that yellow and orange pigments are actively manifested.
Some trees (wild grapes, aspen, maple) acquire a beautiful crimson color of leaves. This transformation is made possible by the content of anthocyanin, which is dissolved in the aqueous liquid of the plant. At low ambient temperatures, its amount increases, and the sheet plate acquires a brownish tint. The intake of nutrients and this period of significant decreases and gradually completely stops.
Crimson color: psychological characteristic
People who are prone to agitation, irritation do not withstand red for a long time, they reject it. Peace, relaxation and relaxation are found in other shades. Red for them is perceived as a threat, and not as their own power, strength. Scarlet rejection may be due to mental and physical exhaustion of the individual's body, its general weakness.
Conducting color tests on patients with cardiovascular pathologies made it possible to monitor the clinical manifestation of the disease and mental processes. An individual who has been exposed to extreme stress for a long time and, due to it, is approaching damage to the heart muscle or heart attack, chooses blue-green along with a crimson-red color.
This fact indicates the strongest tension. However, a gray and brown tone indicates that exhaustion of the nervous system already prevails in humans. The blue color, symbolizing peace, he does not perceive. Red color has an exciting effect. This tone is always present in the attire of kings, cardinals. The banner of the Russian revolution is painted in a crimson color. Red is domination, a coup.
One who feels powerful is one who is full of energy, vitality and endowed with self-esteem. It is these qualities that red color symbolizes. However, the weak before the strong perceives him as a threat. Therefore, items that indicate a hazard are colored red.
Red fire engines and fire fighting equipment are perceived as a tremendous degree of anxiety. In this case, the effect of the crimson color appears as annoying and subsequently causes excitement. At the traffic lights, a red signal, warning the driver about the threat of a collision, makes him stop.
Interesting Facts
- The black box or flight recorder, which is available on all aircraft, is actually red. This color allows it to be detected more quickly in the event of a disaster.
- In bullfighting, the bull does not react to the red cloak of the matador, but to movement. He is not able to distinguish colors. On a red background, the blood of the animal is not so noticeable.
- Country style uses a large number of muted colors. Interiors are performed in paints close to nature: green, yellow, blue, pale pink and golden crimson.
- Ancient Roman generals painted their faces with red paint, having won. And they did it in honor of Mars - the god of war.
- “Red heart” is the name of an outspoken person in China.
- In eastern countries, all participants in the wedding ceremony dressed in red clothes.
Color therapy or color treatment
This science dates back to 1877. Scientists Babbitt and Pleasanton studied the healing properties of color. In published scientific papers, recommendations were given on the use of flowers in the treatment of various pathologies. With infertility, it was recommended to use a crimson color, and a blue tint for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system.
In the nineteenth century, one of the German doctors revealed that the vessels dilate red and narrow - blue. Color is able to radiate energy that must be used for the good of one’s health. The choice of the color of clothes depends on the psychological state of the individual. If in the early morning hours a person experiences fatigue, then the choice is limited to outfits of
warm colors: orange, red or yellow.
After a hard and stressful working day, and an unstable psychological state, manifested by nervousness, irritability, in the evening there is a desire to dress in calm colors: green, blue or blue. Our state, both mental and physical, requires such changes due to the fact that there is a connection between the physiological indicators of the individual and the colors that the person is looking at.
The following chain occurs in the body. Dull, gloomy shades send few impulses to the endocrine system, respectively, the synthesis of hormonal substances that have a direct effect on vitality is reduced. The body's resistance decreases, chronic diseases worsen.
Even Avicenna recommended red clothes during illness or spleen. Red - removes negative emotions, longing, has a stimulating effect on the functioning of muscles and internal organs. To raise the mood, it is enough to put red napkins or put a red saucer.
A red thread was tied with a woolen thread around the bruise to relieve pain and quick recovery. Crimson acts as an anesthetic for pain in the spine, heals ulcerative lesions of the stomach, treats inflammatory processes of the external genital organs. The benefits of this color are manifested in many vegetables and fruits. It is effective in the treatment of depressive disorders, depressed state.
Sanguine and choleric red shades are not recommended. Wearing clothes of this color is desirable for a short time. Red energy helps to assert their rights, avert unpleasant experiences, achieve goals, and gives confidence.
Finally
What does the crimson color look like? It is dark red with a purple or bluish tint, thick red with a bluish tint, this color looks exactly like this through the eyes of artists. They have slightly different color names and their perception. For example, the word “hemorrhoidal”, fashionable at the beginning of the twentieth century, meant the red color of an unhealthy individual. In other words, crimson is a wide gamut of all shades of red.