Virtual Residency - Goethe Theory of Colors and its Therapeutic Uses

• Watercolor practices using six basic colors

• Perception of physical and physiological colors and their effects in our psyche

• Personal self-knowledge and enrichment

• Development of artistic skills.

Goethe's Theory of Colors was published in 1810 and is considered one of his most important work. One of its most radical points was a refutation of Newton’s ideas about the color spectrum, suggesting instead that darkness is an active ingredient rather than the mere passive absence of light.

“Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of color… The color itself is a degree of darkness.”