Kandinsky's Colour Test

[Karl_b]

 

Kandinsky once gave this to students at the Bauhaus, as part of his study into colour and shape, and asked them to colour each shape with either red, yellow or blue but only using each colour once.

 

How would you colour them?

 

Please select an option for each shape and remember you can only use each colour once. The results of the poll cannot be seen until you have voted and the ones I have voted for are my prediction at what the outcome will be.

[She Knows It]

Yellow square, blue triangle, red circle.

[Karl_b]

Damn I couldn't figure out how to make the votes private until after you've voted. I'll pm my prediction to SKI (as she's here).

[rb14]

Cocking ignore me then you homophone.

[Spy Bee]

I just did red, yellow, blue in order, then the shapes in order.

[lifetime fan]

Red circle, blue square and yellow triangle, I've matched the majority but have no fucking idea why.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

Red Square, blue circle, yellow triangle

[RedinSweden]

Red Square, blue circle, yellow triangle

 

Same for me. I remember reading about this a while back and i think that combination was the most common.

[tokyojoe]

Red Square (Moscow), blue circle (cement), yellow triangle (pass, give up).

[RedinSweden]

Red Square (Moscow), blue circle (cement), yellow triangle (pass, give up).

 

Baby on Board sign?

[Hazel Motes]

yellow triangle (pass, give up).

 

Zelda Star Triforce

[mattyq]

My head hurts

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

Same for me. I remember reading about this a while back and i think that combination was the most common.

 

Aye...I'm no psychologist like, but for me its associating the strongest shapes with the strongest colours.

[madstock]

Aye...I'm no psychologist like, but for me its associating the strongest shapes with the strongest colours.

 

I just thought it would look pretty.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

I just thought it would look pretty.

 

Fuckin' madstock.

[Sweeney287]

Blue square, yellow triangle and red circle for me.

 

Red circle felt right immediately so just put the other 2 with any colour.

[Mr.SB]

I didn't read the posts but ended up with all the minority. For me, circle HAD to be blue, triangle red, square ended up being yellow.

 

What's this all mean???

[Plewggs]

I didn't read the posts but ended up with all the minority. For me, circle HAD to be blue, triangle red, square ended up being yellow.

 

What's this all mean???

 

It tests your ability to condense form and substance to an empirical certainty as defined by the absolutism of mathematical purity.

 

Any modern art lover with a degree in Maths, Music and Bull will explain why the following is the correct sequence:

 

Red = Three letters = Triangle

 

Blue = Four letters = Square

 

Yellow = Six letters = Coldplay

 

It’s obvious to the most casual observer.

[Jorge Borge]

I went for:

 

Square - yellow,

Triangle - red,

Circle - blue,

 

because of the strengths they were allocated in Itten's colour ring.

[Mr.SB]

I went for:

 

Square - yellow,

Triangle - red,

Circle - blue,

 

because of the strengths they were allocated in Itten's colour ring.

 

I've got the same but wtf is Itten's colour ring?

[Jorge Borge]

On reflection I don't know how true the above comment is. I had it in my mind as I voted last night but think my judgment was more determined by returning from a long weekend in Brighton, still very wired and voting for which 'felt right' - haha.

 

Itten was an artist who wrote several books on colour studies. He taught at the Bauhaus along with Kandinsky. Amongst many other things, he allocated all hues different values and said that in a painting you can give balance by adhering to his scale. I think one of the best examples is the Monet painting of the lily pond where the small orange flowers are balanced by the expansive use of it's opposite (in strength and tone) blue. I think it goes along the lines of (off the top of my head): Yellow-2, Orange-3, Red-4, Green-5, Blue-6, Purple-7 (but don't quote me on that), these numbers being the primary and secondary colours in his scale.

 

In the case above I thought I'd fill the biggest space with the lowest colour. I don't know what the actual answer is though.

[Paul]

How many people are always tempted to think of their first response and then change it on something like this? I am, but I went with my initial thought which was the same as Adam's (although I cocked up the poll): colours in order given matched to shapes in order given. There was no other connection in my head br the possibility of red and circle for Liverpool and football.

[Terry Tibbs]

Who fackin cares what colour a shape should be? You fackin students have got too much time on your hands. Do you want to know how Terry Tibbs got where he is today? With a semi in Hamstead, a Jaguar XJS Coupe 5.3 V12 on the drive, a holiday home in Anglesey and a Ukranian wife half his age willing to suck him off at the drop of a penny. I'll fackin tell you how you pickled onion. He grafted from the day he could walk, morning noon and fackin night, he workd untill his arms felt like a pair of pianos so he could enjoy the good life now. He did not spend all his time on a poxy internet forum discussing the colour of fackin shapes. What do I look like to you son? A PJ tips monkey?

[Carradona]

Did someone say Kaplinsky?

 

[madstock]

Did someone say Kaplinsky?

 

She's no Liz McDonald :whistle:

 

 

(No, I would do neither, as much as they would beg for it.)