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Colour as an Instrument of Empowerment
With Special reference to Micro Academy's ProMICAD System for Empowerment
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Meanings of the colours
The meanings of the individual colours do not stay constant but vary according to their positions within the quartered square, right, left, up or down. One's conscious purposeful actions tend to be reflected by the colours placed in the right hand squares. Colours in the left, tend to reflect subliminal and characterological features. Emotional and aspirational factors are most often reflected by colours placed above the horizon. On the other hand, things of deeper import are more often expressed in the lower parts of a picture. The same applies here within the squares.
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Stimulus Gradient of colours
The Psychological Primaries and Variants. |
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The array of colours available in ProMICAD consists of a series of gradients from subdued colours to strident colours. The main colours so graded are the psychological primaries which are vermilion red, brilliant yellow, viridian green and a twilight blue. Each of these has a strident, a strong, a moderate, and a subdued variant. The colour stimulus gradient is brought about by the varying intensities of the different wavelengths. Each different colour, for example, seen on the same surface, causes the lens of the eye to change its shape in order to accommodate its beam of colours on the retina. |
Looking at a red, for example the shape of your lens changes in the same way as it would if you were looking at something nearer to you. This usually makes red appear to come forward. The opposite is true of blue, and it usually appears to recede. The psychological implications of this are immense, as the eye is an extension of the brain, and the gradient of colours in ProMICAD relates to a 'spectrum' of affects and emotions. The colours of high impact are likely to reflect states of excitement, whilst the colours of low intensity may reflect states of equanimity. Between the two extremes the gradient is particularly rich in generating a wealth of chromatic indicators of physical and mental excellence. |
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One of the main features of ProMICAD is its use of the right and left fields of vision. The left field of vision from both eyes is, for example, processed in the right brain, which is concerned with holistic processes such as judging and synthesising, whereas the right field of vision from both eyes, is processed in the left brain, which is good at analysing and reasoning, and dealing with complex streams of words or symbols.
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This means that what is preferred in the left field of vision relates to what is most acceptable for assimilation in the right hemisphere. Pictures and imagery placed in the left field of vision are assimilated best in the right hemisphere. On the other hand, words and symbols placed in the right field of vision are most easily processed in the left hemisphere which prefers the holistic set to the mass of details. |
In psychiatric art colours preferred on the left field of vision tend to relate to emotive and subliminal aspects of life, whereas those on the right reflect the detail of the restrictions are repressions of everyday life. Colours in the upper section of the pattern tend to relate to uplifting and aspirational aspects of life, while those placed below tend to reflect more elemental and down to earth qualities of feeling. |
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