Värvi semiootikast visuaalkunstis
About semiotics of color in the visual arts

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on colour as a physical phenomenon and on the other side as a tool of meaning-making. Different theoretical approaches to the essence and the meaning of colour are discussed, from the works of Vassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Fernande Saint-Martin. The role of color in visual arts is special – color is undeniably one of the main means of visual expression and therefore one of the main units of visual creation and perception. When analyzing a visual sign system as a language in a semiotic sense, it is inevitable that the same basic units are used for both the creation and the interpretation of this language.

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