The color wheel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a visualization from his book Theory of Colours (Original Title in German: Zur Farbenlehre), shows both the primary colors and the secondary colors. Here, the complementary colors are opposite each other. Goethe divided his color wheel into two rings: The inner ring describes human characteristics, and
The German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was already an established statesman, poet, author and philosopher when he published his colour theories in 1810. Unconvinced by Newton’s belief that colours were contained within light, he thought that it was the interplay of light and dark, as seen through atmospheres like dust and air, that created colour.
El azul, la melancolÃa. En la teorÃa del color según Goethe, el color azul nos atrae, inoculando a su vez un cierto sentimiento de melancolÃa. Esto sucede porque esta tonalidad está en contacto con la oscuridad. A pesar de ello, nos da una sensación de poder y nos estimula a la vez. Es quizá el color más atractivo porque imprime
Remarks on Colour / Bemerkungen über die Farben. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Per maggiori approfondimenti vedi: McGinn, Marie 1991. Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour. Philosophy, 66 (258): 435–453. 10 [3] Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 1974. Goethe Farbenlehre.
colour is not independent of its spatial Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Gordon L. Miller, "Introduction" to J. W. von Goethe The Metamorphosis of Plants, MIT press, Massachusetts 2009, page