jennefer harper

Holly, Steiner says in The Education of the Child
(p.21):

"Excitable children should be surrounded by and
dressed in red or reddish-yellow colors, while
lethagic children should be surrounded by blue or
bluish-green shades of color. **The important thing
is the complementary color that is created within the
child.** In the case of red it is green, and in the
case of blue, orange-yellow. **This can be seen very
easily by looking for awhile at a red or blue surface
and then quickly looking at a white surface. The
physical organs of the child create this contrary or
complementary color,** and this is what causes the
corresponding organic structures that the child
needs."


**Astricks are mine**

In response to:
"Steiner's theory was not that there were
complimentary colors but how
color affected individuals.

Holly"

I quoted more from this excerpt in my original post
regarding 'the color thing'.

Vijay, in turn responded that she thought this was
Goethe's theory, not Steiner's which I was suspicious
of since I knew he spent years studying Goethe's
scientific theories.

And, thank you Vijay for quoting Eric Carle's intro.
That's very informative and obviously right where it
comes from. Interesting that that's one of the Carle
books we haven't read!

-Jennefer

--- In [email protected], Vijay
Berry Owens
<vijayowens@e...> wrote:
> From the intro to "Hello Red Fox" a children's book
about
complementary
> colors by Eric Carle.
>
> "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) is
celebrated as a great
> German poet, novelist, and philosopher, but to him,
his color
theory was
> his most important achievement.
>
> One evening, about two hundred years ago, Goethe
stopped at a
tavern to
> dine As he sat at his table, he gazed at the
waitress who stood
taking
> an order at a nearby table. Her red dress stood out
in sharp
contrast to
> the white wall behind her. When the waitress moved
away, Goethe
> continued to stare in the same direction at the
wall.
> Then a strange thing happened: on the white wall he
saw a faint
glowing
> image of the waitress's dress -- but it was green
not red! Why?
This
> moment of wonder led Goethe into more than twenty
years of research
on
> color.
>
> In 1810 he published Farbenlehre, his color theory.
He determined
that
> there are three primary colors -- red, blue, and
yellow -- from
which
> all other colors could be made, and that each color
had an opposite
or
> complementary color."
>
> Cool, huh?
>
> -Vijay Berry Owens
> SAHM to Charlotte, 14 months
>




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