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Abstract
The thesis is examined the meaning of color with the culture aspect. According to using of the color, it helps us condense the relation of focuses and clarify information. Color using become the main part of our daily life and play a big role in cultural. The color questionnaire designs, according to Doctor Isaac Newton's color theory (1666) and Berlin and Kay (1969 Basic Color Terms) these two books main study, show that the human color language is base on only 11 basic colors. By passing out the questionnaires to male and female Taiwanese and American, we can try to understand the color under different nationalities and condition of the sex. Furthermore, In order to understand the color role in difference culture, I pick my Taiwan participants from Chinese department in National Taiwan Normal University, and American participants were picked from University students, who come from National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University and National Chengchi University and stay in Taiwan less than one year. The total number of questionnaire is 200: Taiwan 100 participants, which includes 50 males and 50 females and American 100 participant’s 50, which includes males and 50 females, too. Later on I would collect and compile the statistics into the covariance table of concrete and abstract color. The result shows that the white color delivers Taiwanese the feeling of milk, rabbit, and the good person with elegance, while it brings
American the feeling of hospital, pearl, virgin and fearfulness. The black color brings Taiwanese the feeling of hair, night, loneliness and villians while it gives to American the feeling of black person, awfulness, nobleness and devil. The red color gives Taiwanese the feeling of red envelope, wedding and fortune, while it gives to American feeling of war, blood, devil and lipstick. The yellow color gives Taiwanese feeling of emperor, taxi, power, and caution, while it gives to American feeling of sunshine, gold, animation and power. The green color gives Taiwanese feeling of garden, forest, freshness and mettlesome feeling, while it brings to American feeling of U.S. dollar, nature, hopefulness and regeneration. The blue color gives Taiwanese feeling of sky, ocean, power and freedom, while it gives to American feeling of space, the earth, mysterious and isolating feeling. The brown color gives Taiwanese feeling of coffee, earth, mud and dirtiness, while it gives to American feeling of beer, chocolate and lion. The gray color gives Taiwanese feeling of metal, road, industrialism and impureness while it brings to American feeling of silver, newspaper, senility and murkiness. The purple color gives Taiwanese feeling of grape, noble and the flower fragrant while it gives to American feeling of grape, heavenliness and eternity. The pink color gives Taiwanese feeling of woman, Hello Kitty, love and amiability, while it gives to American feeling is gay, little girl and heat. The orange color gives Taiwanese feeling of tangerine, anger and the guests in Taiwan, while it gives to American feeling of pumpkin, happiness, and vitality. From the questionnaire we have learned, under assigning to the conditions of the race, sex, prove people's feeling to color, color has a great influence toward culture of the external living environment. For example, with the fast grown globe media, liberalism and development and world communicate, when speaking of green, "US dollars” will come to most of our minds immediately. American currency money is public known. Therefore, it causes people's association of thought to "green”. Other colors also have big impact to the globe, like the pink color. This color makes people associate with Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty is the virtual person image created by Japan. However, because of the open world trades, the information of the product has a great deal of propagation at the media, on the vision of living environment, becoming a great deal of understood by people. It even also makes large quantity in daily life articles and causes Hello Kitty and the pink inseparable.
Key word: color theory, color aesthetics, color consciousness, color psychology
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