Chromophobia
According to this passage, people are afraid of black and white colors. In order to be okay with whatever a person is looking at, the images need to be colorized. Then again, there is also a fear of things that have color. Some kinds of colors get associated with ideas so people try to stay away from those colors. Painters who want to represent real life things are limited in their choices in terms of color and form. This is because although the artist wants to show his own ideas, he also has to make sure that what he is drawing or painting is enough like the real thing for the viewers of the work to understand it. Throughout history people have had trouble with the ideas of color. He also talks about the importance of the Fall and how people want to do everything within their powers to avoid it. Bad stuff can be attributed or associated with colors, such as drug use. People in the 1960s who were on LSD would have acid trips which involved massive amounts of color. So, color can be associated with dangerous and illegal behaviors. Batchelor then goes on to use the example of the character of Adam from the Alex Huxley book Brave New World. In that story the drugs had a link to color and acts as a piece of evidence to Batchelor's thesis.
Favorite Quotes:
1. "Color in painting is an essential, almost indispensible element, since having all Nature to represent, the painter cannot make her speak without borrowing her language" (Batchelor, page 25).
2. "Colour is both secondary and dangerous; in fact, it is dangerous because it is secondary. Otherwise there would be no Fall. The minor is always the undoing of the major" (Batchelor, page 31).
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