In 1923 Kandinsky made a questionnaire for the students at the Bauhaus, asking them to fill in a triangle, square, and circle with the primary colours, hoping to find what connections people make for the use of colour and shape. The results at the time were blue=circle red=square and yellow=triangle. Very interesting, as I'd personally make different connections, of which I made within the sketchbook.
I cant say why the bauhaus made their choices, but I have a few reasons for my results, those being relation and connotation. See, to me the triangle is red because of road signs, and the circle yellow because of the sun, finally the square blue because of swimming baths. This is really quite interesting, because Its a pretty clear indication that we all see colour in different ways, explaining why someone may have the favourite colour of pink, whilst another green. There could also be something said about how these connotations could possibly change over time. For instance, its crazy to me that yellow and circle aren't the natural link as the sun, what was there at the time to cause them to make a different link?
I actually found a story that epitomises this, Joshua reynolds stated that the colour red will always appear to come forward and blue will appear to recede. Upon hearing this Thomas Gainsborough painted the blue boy in response (below) which quite nicely acts against that statement.
I cant say why the bauhaus made their choices, but I have a few reasons for my results, those being relation and connotation. See, to me the triangle is red because of road signs, and the circle yellow because of the sun, finally the square blue because of swimming baths. This is really quite interesting, because Its a pretty clear indication that we all see colour in different ways, explaining why someone may have the favourite colour of pink, whilst another green. There could also be something said about how these connotations could possibly change over time. For instance, its crazy to me that yellow and circle aren't the natural link as the sun, what was there at the time to cause them to make a different link?
I actually found a story that epitomises this, Joshua reynolds stated that the colour red will always appear to come forward and blue will appear to recede. Upon hearing this Thomas Gainsborough painted the blue boy in response (below) which quite nicely acts against that statement.
I made a little reaction myself.
Its funny, I simply did this quick test to see how the colour elements come together, and the blue boy still pops as the focus of the image, Reynolds should have really tested his theory more.
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