Blue symbolism of the
color blue .
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in
painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It
lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye
perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately
450 and 495 nanometres.
Blue symbolizes Infinity, eternity, truth, devotion, faith,
purity, chastity, peace, spiritual, and intellectual life . It is the color of
the ocean and the sky; it often symbolizes serenity, stability,
inspiration,wisdom or health. It can be a calming color, and symbolize
reliability.
cultures associations that appear in many ancient cultures
and expressed a general feeling that blue, the color of the Sky, is the coolest
most attached and least material of all hues.
The Virgin Mary and Christ are often shown wearing blue and
it is the attribute of many Sky gods including Amun of kemitic beliefs, the Sumerian
great mother, the Greek Zeus and Hera, the Hindu gods Indra and Vishnu and Vishnu’s
blue skinned incarnation Krishna.
Blue is linked to mercy in Hebrew tradition and to wisdom in
Buddhism .
In folk tradition it
stands in Europe for Fidelity in parts of China for scholarship and happy
marriage and more recently the term Blues means melancholy or sad.
Hues of blue include indigo and ultramarine, closer to
violet; pure blue, without any mixture of other colours; Cyan, which is midway
in the spectrum between blue and green, and the other blue-greens turquoise,
teal, and aquamarine.
Blue also varies in shade or tint; darker shades of blue
contain black or grey, while lighter tints contain white. Darker shades of blue
include ultramarine, cobalt blue, navy blue, and Prussian blue; while lighter
tints include sky blue, azure, and Egyptian blue.
In Kemet blue was associated with the sky and with divinity.
The Kemetic god Amun could make his skin blue so that he could fly, invisible,
across the sky. Blue could also protect against evil; many people around the
Mediterranean still wear a blue amulet, representing the eye of God, to protect
them from misfortune.
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