Name:

CHROMOPHOBIA

INTRODUCTION

• Colour– Remove monastic emptiness– Impose order to disorder of

surroundings– Communicate with outer world– Rescue the culture Salvation

INTRODUCTION

Without Colour– Clarity Confusion– Simplicity Complication– Art Uniformly Grey

Rather– Isolation and Confinement

INTRODUCTION

• If colour is unimportant– Why it is so important to exclude

it forcefully?–Why its abolition matters much?

IMPACT OF COLOUR

• Importance of colour in eyes of Historical figures like,–Melville– Conrad– Pater–Winkelmann

IMPACT OF COLOUR

• Fate of western culture is associated with colour

• It remains an object of prejudice

IMPACT OF COLOUR

Colour prejudices:• Its manifest form, its

loathing, masks a fear, a fear of – Contamination and corruption

by something that is unknown or appears unknowable.

• Chromophobia

Chromophobia-Fear of Colour

• Persistent, irrational fear of colors

• Patients correlate a distressing past event with a color.

• Become sensitive to particular shades or tones

Chromophobia-Fear of Colour

• In Chromophobia colour is considered as– Property of Foreign Body– Alien– Superficial or cosmetic– Feminine– Pathogen

• Excluded from values of western culture

EXAMPLE

Eve

Mankind

Colour

Design

Charles Blanc, Director of Arts, France,1848.

Colour is “Fall”

For chromophobic architect,

• Mythical savage state• Which slides,– Civilization– Nobility of human spirit

• Either, feminine or primitive, colour corruption

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Chromophobia dates back in Aristotle,

• In his poetics he said,– “Most attractive colour

would never yield as much pleasure as definite image without color.”

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

This discrimination takes number of shapes,– Technical– Moral– Racial– Sexual– Social

INHERITANCE OF OPRESSION

• Oppression and discrimination is seen as merely stylistic and artistic

• Analysis of film revealed discriminatory binaries

• For Example,–Wes Anderson white bodies + vivid colorful set

design + chromophilic sets and costumes

Chromophobia-19th century

• Art and culture is a black-and-white issue• Realism,– Unnatural fondness for brown– Fetish of black and white

• Hollywood fantasies, musicals and period pieces

• Colour Secondary and Dangerous

Where we find idea of Fall in culture?

• Drug Culture• During 1960s drug was

presented as intensification of colour

• Evident in ‘Easy Rider’.

“Fall” in Movies

• The Wizard of Oz.

“Fall” in Movies

“Fall” in Literature

“Fall” in Literature

“Fall” in Literature

“Fall” in Literature

• Confusion give rise to hallucination• Suppress the DreamWorks• Le Corbusier write the “Journey to the East”

with eyes that have seen the Acropolis• Usage of colours that lose the power of

intoxication

“Fall” in Literature

Colour “WHITE”

• Spiritual• Colour of Modern Times• Covers everything• Purity• Healthy• Rational

Fantasy & Purism

PurismFantasy

Controlling Colour

Three Scales of Colour control• Major Scale• Dynamic scale• Transitional Scale

Conclusion