the tate online’s tate etc. has some interesting articles up. the piece titled cured by colour is a gem running down the history of chroma-therapy, color quackery, the alchemical roots of medical conceptions of color, goethe’s book theory of colours and his decorating scheme which sought to put the ideas into practice, dashes of gauguin and kandinsky, the “universal urge to attribute affective characteristics to colors”, and the continuing compulsion to think of color in an associative rather than empiric way. fascinating. (via protein feed)