張愛玲小說色彩與配色之研究

• Main Author: 傅嘉琳
• Other Authors: 孫春望
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88617672292918501074

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 92 === The ability to master color combination is crucial to creative industry workers. Color combination is also performed by novelists when they are coloring the setting of their stories. Eileen Chang, although not a visual artist, was praised to be a wizard in using colorful expressions. Her works were based on intensive images, especially those novels before the “Chuan Chi.” In those earlier novels, we see a distinctive quality of outstanding color combination and intricate images. We found that Chang composed many passages that carry bountiful color combinations. From a designer’s perspective, her novels offer not only visual sensations but even a source of a color combination system such as those in publications. Chapter two starts out from perceiving the quality of colors in literary works and then narrows down to the discussion of colors in novels. A systematic categorization was performed on the colors used in Chang’s novels, especially in terms of the depictions of characters and scenes. This chapter also delves into how Chang’s distinguished personality and unusual upbringing have an immediate bearing on her elaborate, colorful style of writing. Chapter three attempts to sort out Chang’s color combinations in her passages. This is presented in illustrations of plots, color cards, and numbers of Munsell colors system. The attempt is to establish a color combination system of Eileen Chang to be used as a sample or reference for designers. The frequency of using color combinations by a writer shows how much emphasis the writer has on colors. In chapter four, an observation on Chang’s works is made from this perspective. Findings are as follows: (1) depiction of characters and scenes: 72 sentences used colors to portray characters and a parallel number of 74 sentences were for scenes; (2) appearances of color series: 595 colors were used with the following five most frequently used colors─red, accounts for 20%; white, 14%; black, 12%; green, 11.7%; blue, 10%; (3) hue amount in color matching sentences: Chang adopted multiple-hue color matching technique in her writings. She most often matched 3 to 6 colors, while as many as over 7 and even 15 colors would be dealt with in a single passage; (4) the amount and frequency of colors appearances had gradually reduced from her earlier works to later ones. Chang’s works after 1974 were different from her earlier novels such as the “Chuan Chi.” The use of images was apparently less frequent. Her earlier extravagant and colorful touch was moderated and transformed into a light and realistic style. Chapter five concludes the discussion on Chang’s colors. Chang’s earlier works reflected the invigoration of her newly-acquired fame with the bold conflict and contrast of color combinations. In her later writings, color combinations became conservative and discreet. With the maturing in age, accumulation of life experience, and changes in environment (left China for the US), Chang’s subjects, the people and times in her writings, were also altered. The lessening of use of colors and the transformation of style from extravagance to tranquilization are precisely a reflection of the changes in her real life.