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Color Symbolism
• Red: Excitement, energy, passion, love, desire, speed, strength, power, heat, aggression, danger, fire, blood, war, violence, all things intense and passionate
• Pink symbolizes love and romance, caring, tenderness, acceptance and calm.
• Yellow signifies joy, happiness, betrayal, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard and friends
Color continued
• Blue: Peace, tranquility, cold, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, technology, depression, appetite suppressant.
• Purple: Royalty, nobility, spirituality, ceremony, mysterious, transformation, wisdom, enlightenment,
• Orange: Energy, balance, enthusiasm, warmth
Color Continued
• Green: Nature, environment, healthy, good luck, renewal, youth, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, inexperience, envy
• Brown: Earth, stability, hearth, home, outdoors, reliability, comfort, endurance, simplicity, and comfort.
• Gray: Security, intelligence, modesty, maturity, old age• White: purity, birth, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, innocence, good
• Black: Power, elegance, wealth, mystery, fear, evil, unhappiness, death
Shape Symbolism
• Circle= Circles protect, they endure, they restrict, they confine what’s within and keep things out and their completeness suggests the infinite, unity, and harmony. community, integrity, and perfection
• Squares and rectangles are stable, they are generally not attention getters, but can be tilted to add an unexpected twist. Order and formality, conformity, peacefulness
• Line= the idea of connecting, going from one to another in a fluid motion. Connection
Shapes continued
• Triangles have energy and power and their stable/unstable dynamic can suggest either conflict or steady strength. progression, direction, and purpose, dynamic tension, action, and aggression
• Spirals are expressions of creativity, fertility, birth, death, expansion, and transformation. There is no life without death.
• Crosses are seen as the meeting place of divine energies, faith, unity, temperance, hope, spirituality, life and healing
• Heart associated with love, passion, tenderness
Symbolism Activity #1
• You will be creating a “family portrait” of the characters in Oedipus, how we see them NOW.
• Each character needs to be represented by a shape and color. You CAN stack shapes on top of each other. You CAN have multiple colors representing a character.
• You need at least three characters in your family portrait (the characters don’t HAVE to be related completely)
• You need to write out a rationale for each character on why you represented them the way you have.