Color theory
The color theory is a sub-area of modern aesthetics and the art sciences and deals with colors in general as well as their possibility to combine to achieve different, artistic effects. The discipline of color theory encompasses numerous specialist areas, but in everyday life as well as in floristry is usually reduced to the aspect of which colors can be combined with one another. Basically, the theory of colors conveys everything worth knowing about the individual colors, for example what effect it has on people and for what purpose it can be optimally used. In addition to an objective, aesthetic view of the individual colors, this also includes their cultural assessment, since in different parts of the world and epochs, individual colors are associated with different subject areas, people and events. For example, according to modern color theory, girls are assigned the color red or pink, while boys are more likely to be associated with the color blue – a few 100 years ago, the symbolic meaning in Central Europe was exactly the opposite. In addition to the basic evaluation of individual colors, the color harmony and the combination of different colors also play an important role in color theory, which is also used, for example, in the combination of flowers and blossoms in floristry. The creation of a triad of colors or another color harmony can be part of this as well as the integration of conscious contrasts, whereby the effect of the composition and the occasion for which a bouquet is designed should always be considered.