colour symbolism    • role in religious symbolism      TITLE:
religious symbolism and iconography: Diagrammatic and emblematic
SECTION: Diagrammatic and emblematic     ...Latin cross, Tau
(T), ankh, Saint Andrew’s cross (X), and forked (Y)—may
symbolize human beings and their extremities. Among various
peoples and in different religions a number of basic colours
have at times different and sometimes even opposite meanings.
White, for example, may signify joy and festivity or death and
sadness. Red has the most pronounced symbolical value: it
refers...   • views of Kandinsky      TITLE: Wassily Kandinsky:
Bauhaus period     SECTION: Bauhaus period     ...und Linie zu
Fläche (“Point and Line to Plane”). In his first treatise,
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, he had emphasized in particular
the supposed expressiveness of colours, comparing yellow, for
example, to the aggressive, allegedly earthly sound of a trumpet
and comparing blue to the allegedly heavenly sound of the pipe
organ. Now, in the same spirit,