Artistic color theory the modern phrenology #6: the color of sex
Jun 6th, 2007 by Brad
When a young girl, my niece loved pink. Every piece of clothing, every toy, everything had to be pink. My mom said it was just in her
DNA.
So let’s look at the western history of what color represents male and female:
- 18th century Gobineau: (female=black, male=white)
- 1809 Philipp Otto Runge: (female=blue/violet, male=yellow/orange)
- 1910 Franz Marc: (female=yellow, male=blue)
- 1914 The Sunday Sentinal [American woman’s magazine/newspaper] (female=pink, male=blue)
Now, we all know the one color of sex is…
