Red, White, and Purple

Setting back to ages ago when colors never showed in media or presented artwork by paper or screen. Before a photo consisted of color; before monochromatic photography had shadows and highlights. Long ago, color was simply a vision of life, and in those times, colors held different meanings.

Dating back to the Renaissance times, Europe found it’s way into a newly found vision of artistry, culture, and economic stability. Art became a valued part of life, its impression in homes and galleries recognized art as work from artists about.

My passion for historic poetry and art has influenced my writing and fine art photography for years. When thinking about colors utilized in art with strong definitions in modern life, I searched for three: red, white, and purple.

During the Renaissance times, the color red was actually seen as a color of power and strength. It was seen in wealth and was used as a color of strength and persuasion. Regal reds mediated their way into architecture and design. Red was not pain; but power.

White was considered as chastity; similar to modern times. In relation to red, the two often resembled a common man and woman of the house hold. A power and a dove. Something much demoted in modern society. The hues and strength in longevity when utilizing the color often played roles in its importance. The shade of white faded quickly. As for red pigments lasted for long periods of time.

The color purple was significant to regal royalty. Kingdoms, kings and queens used purple in their homes as a sense of wealth.

In Renaissance times, red, white, and purple all held importance in power, persuasion, value, and class. Something much explored in poetry as in the search for the meaning of submission and power struggles, these three colors vitally start the division of my poetry at heart.

Red: Power and Strength

Rises in the dark

The blood of the heart, throbbing,

Red fire burning

The strength of an eagle's wings

strong in the storm

Iron the line

beating to the heart

magnanimity

Peak to the stars.

picture of kings

In the old kingdoms,

Shine on the bloody sandals

Eternal strength and power.

rising again, iron in hand,

Heart beating in a burning pulse,

the rush of life

The blush of the sun, the image of victory.

Red is the law

bloody dictatorships

A stranger to existence.

It will not cease, it will not flow,

In mourning, in joy,

Always and everywhere,

You want evil heart and glory

Red, shining fire.

Of the color White

Candor, light, infinite hope,

The way of life, and the soul properly.

In silence, but beautiful

White signs, no soul.

In the color purple

In kings, purple shines,

bloody latex on the clothes,

Gold does not equal dignity

In dreams and in life, power.

Queens bloom before him

In purple sails, bright light,

Empire, honor, and glory,

Intoxicate hearts with this divinity.

The sacred itself has no crime.

The dawn is bright in color,

Life leads to the stars

Eternal time, the festival of time.

Let purple blossom in the seats,

Royal wisdom, perpetual;

Truth and beauty in steps

In the color purple, our way.