Colors speak all languages

Of course yes, the whole world knows what a rainbow is. ‘Do you know what primary colors are’? Art teacher (Sonam Sherpa) asked me when I was in class five. I reckon those days, no burden, nothing to do, just time pass. Just play and read (not all the time). Life was full of excitement; but something was there which haunted me badly in those days. It was an economic burden to my parents…  

I replied immediately: Blue, red and yellow.  The whole world is colorful because of these three primary colors.  All other colors, which we find in nature, are the gift of them (primary colors).  

Let us open the window, see outside or go upstairs at the rooftop (terrace), or go down to the ground (garden may be). Look up, high in the sky, what do we find? A glance of clear blue sky with its depth: Floating cotton white clouds. Anything more can we see?  Yes, sometimes birds fly, another man made things (airplanes). What a peculiar creation! Blue, deep and calm. If you put down your eyes just in front of you, an age-old green tree stands full of historical facts.  In fact, the hills are alive because of the green.  The ground is matted with green carpet of meadows where cattle graze.

If you wake up early in the morning before dawn, keep your eyes toward the eastern sky, there you find Dog Star (Sirius), just above the colorful rays of the sun painted in the sky. Slowly and gradually, the sun appears shining from the horizon with glittering golden colors. But there is a saying in English ‘all that glitters is not gold’. Then what is it?  Something that is a thousand times more precious than gold. That’s beautiful nature. Beautiful morning, it is an orange too—a combination of red and yellow. There is a perfect color blend and balance in nature. Who is the great artist, the creator of this wonderful and colorful world?  Do you know?  Nobody knows, in fact, some may say there is supernatural power. What is that power? Where does it exist? It’s in heaven or hell? Is that God?  It’s too complex a question to answer. Exactly so, to me,  when we think of heaven we feel happy. It’s full of yellow—enchantment whereas hell is something dark, no progress, and the heart is full of jealousy, hatred, chaos and anxiety (like that of Nepali political system).  

One of my friends came rushing to me and said that he got the green signal from his lover. Green has a symbolic meaning. Every color has a symbolic meaning. We celebrate numerous festivals where Red has become the ‘role model’ color to express the meaning of every cultural trait.  

Children on Dec 25 night wait for an aged Santa Claus with a red suit having a silvery white bear as a gift of blessings. It is a colorful night of excitement and joy to the world of Christianity. 

In fact, nobody likes to live in a world without colors.  When we are sad there is supposed to be gray more than that gloomy dark color (maybe Hungarian poet’s gloomy Sunday). We can’t decolorize colors.  How to express feelings? It is easy for the artists. Abstract paintings are full of abstract feeling having vivid expressions. It studies the psychic behavior of human beings. So, it is color psychology or color phenomenology, which studies human behavior, aptitude, and so on. 

Color plays a vital role in the life of every individual. We say ‘black beauty’. Do you think black is beautiful?  Here comes the graceful girl; black may be graceful, fun loving but not beautiful! That’s what you think? She looks beautiful because of her white and rosy face, having a lean and thin body; what we call zero-size figures.  If a man (female too) is judged by color and race, what will be the condition of African countries? Among the flowers, the sunflower is quite big.  It is a yellow-colored flower, in great demand in the world market today.  It is not because of its color, nor because of oil preparation. 

“Sunflower” the greatest impressionist painting gift to the world by Vincent Van Gog. What can we give to others if anyone asks us? Van Gog gave his ear to his beloved, though she had just joked! He gave red to her. She was startled and confused and rejected his true, colorful love.  He later committed suicide; nonetheless, he was the world-renowned artist, who lives in the heart of scholars and artists around the world.  

‘What a sweet smile’ is the colorful expression of all young and old, hermit or professors, scientists or politicians, philosophers or doctors.  It is the greatest gift of nature to human beings. No other creature possesses the art of smiling. That’s why we are always full of colors and enchantment. Thus, we understand the language of smile; hence colors speak all languages.