Black – moderateness or depression

Black is rather versatile colour, it has a lot of meanings and provokes different kinds of emotions. First of all somehow black colour became the colour of classic. Classic cars, suits, phones etc. are performed in black; black is a colour of business people. Maybe it is so, as black colour is so-called "word and emotionless" colour. It contains almost no information. Psychologists say that people who prefer black colour on cloth are people who feel the lack of something. Say, there is a successful man or woman, who always dress up in black, except the occasions of business meetings, such regularity is an identification that no matter on success at business sphere person feels empty deep inside, and black colour is a choice of subconsciousness in order to hide the emptiness inside.

Black colour is also rather mystical colour. No matter on its simplicity and so-called "wordless" in some cases black may be full of sense and emotions. For example if you take a good look on mythology and legends, you will notice that black colour is a symbol of all evil, but the same time black is the only way to white. In order to realise the nature of person one should make person underwent the darkest nights and places, and only after that the inner white will develop.

To realise the capacity of black colour's influence and fullness it would be enough to recollect in memory the famous Malevich's "Black Square". Rather simple picture, with no images and symbol, though it captured attention of the whole world and every one who saw the picture found something special in it. There is no way for one picture to be adored by the whole world, so one may draw a conclusion that "Black Square" is valuable not for its image of the perfect square but for the opportunity to look inside of one's soul, it provides with. That is the strength of black colour.

Another interesting peculiarity of black colour that distinguishes it from all other colours is the ability to absorb any lights and colours. Every colour posses with an ability to reflect light and other colours, but black colour absorbs everything and reflects nothing. Maybe, it is the ability of absorbing that provided black with such mystery. Maybe, that mystery is a result of stored absorbed events of the life. Besides the ability to hide a lot of things, black is also able to help someone feel in secure. Psychologists conducted a number of researches that show that black colour may serve as certain shield for those who feel danger from the outside. As people feel vulnerable they subconsciously chose black cloth as shield from those factors they consider dangerous.

So, just like any other colour black may be of great use or damage. It contains may provide one with feeling of secure or otherwise be a signal of the inner emptiness of person. Black is also a colour that gives us no information, it is only reveals the inner feeling of person that are hidden deep inside. Black is a polarity of white. There is no beauty of white without mystery of black, and there is no deepness of black without lightness of the white.