Ceramics

My painting teacher last year had an entirely different view of color. Rather than the poetic praises of color written in Hanunoo, he used to tell us the whole world was just different shades of gray, but some grays contained more pigment of a certain color. In some ways my teacher and the article are similar, both emphasizing the fact that there is a much wider spectrum of color than blues, reds and yellows.
I don’t agree with the statement that color loses its “intrinsic appeal (79)” as we grow older, our taste in color changes. We may no longer be surrounded by the obvious primary and secondary, saturated hues of color; instead we begin to appreciate the “grays”. Color plays a large role in the clothes we buy, the paint we cover our walls with, and the items we use to decorate our apartments and so on. Perhaps we lose the lose the childhood fascination and obsession one once had, feeling the need to proclaim ones love of a certain color, claiming it is one’s favorite and it is the only color one is willing to wear, but our love of color never truly diminishes.