SIMILARITIES BETWEEN COLOR AND WORD COMPOSITIONS

Painting and English Literature depict different aspects of nature and human life. Each color in painting and each word in literature plays an important role in this depiction but a single color or a single word in a work of art is not an absolute entity. The color and the word gain their complete artistic appeal and symbolic significance in a painting or a work of literature when combined and arranged coherently with other colors and words. Great painters and literary writers have dexterity in selection of colors and words of apt meaning and intensity as well as an ability to create the right composition of colors and words to produce an integrated effect. Acclaimed painters and literary writers are gifted with a faculty to create new color and word compositions to deal with new subjects. They are able to do so because their creative faculty gets sufficient scope to work on unlimited combinations and arrangements of colors and words available in painting and literature. Color and word compositions in painting and literature perform the function of creating a bridge between the art and the art lover. Initially, the two compositions in these respective arts catch the art lover’s attention. Subsequently, a composition of colors of various shades and intensity in painting and a composition of words with varying shades of meaning and intensity in literature communicates the intended objective of the work of art to the art lover