The Importance Of Words And Color In The World

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Colour and words are used in daily life to communicate to others. Words and colour are both symbolic in the way that we read “yellow” and acknowledge or interpret it as the colour although it isn 't yellow and looks nothing like yellow.
Colour allows us to emotionally and symbolically communicate ideas or feelings without having to put it into words. Colour can be direct in its meanings like yellow can represent something urgent and green can represent something natural or nature based.

Words are more direct in a way, as they are saying the words, although the word doesn 't look like what it represents or indicates, words have a more general definition to colour. For example reading the word “tree” generally a person who reads this will think of tree or plant. There is a universal understanding to words although they may be written and spoken differently their meaning is …show more content…

The humanists who began also writing text, sought after old written texts and rediscovered these writings on scientific matters, government, rhetoric, philosophy, and art.
They were influenced by the knowledge of these ancient texts and by the emphasis placed on man and humanity.

Cartography progressed during the renaissance with print making as maps were produced and able to be reproduced through the pint press. Maps during this time were seen as works of art, then through the broadening of geography maps became more accurate and strived to represent the earth as accurately as possible. Maps became of more importance than originally thought as the production of them literally unveiled world to humans during the european renaissance and through discovery revealed the geographical

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