In Art, and more specifically in painting, color is essential
And practically in all art, because, apart from the simulation of movement, in a work what transmits life is also color. And in Art this addition of color through painting is often referred to as "Polychrome"
An example of color application in Art is Iconography where each color is concrete. No shades are applied because each color has its own meaning
Icon about Mary and the baby Jesus
For example, the meaning of the color Blue:
"All ancient cultures made blue a color related to divinity.
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Michel Quenot, in his invaluable work "The Icon" says: Blue offers a transparency that is verified in the emptying of water, air or glass. The gaze penetrates there to infinity and reaches God."
A complete relationship of the meaning of all colors appears on the web Catholic.net:
In Spanish Language Link:
http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/57110/cat/109/los-colores-en-la-simbologia-del-icono.html
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Where it says such interesting things as:
"The iconographers [the authors, are:], writers who do not painters of the icons since they are written and not painted"
Well, that icons are written and not painted
It will be because they transmit the Living Word, perhaps 😀😀
References:
Catechism of the Catholic Church click here
701 The dove. At the end of the flood, whose symbolism refers to Baptism, a dove released by Noah returns with a fresh olive-tree branch in its beak as a sign that the earth was again habitable.58 When Christ comes up from the water of his baptism, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, comes down upon him and remains with him.59 The Spirit comes down and remains in the purified hearts of the baptized. In certain churches, the Eucharist is reserved in a metal receptacle in the form of a dove (columbarium) suspended above the altar. Christian iconography traditionally uses a dove to suggest the Spirit.
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