“RED, THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE”: COLOR METAPHORS IN ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The article provides analysis of colour metaphors in artwork descriptions in Chinese and English. The author finds common symbolic features in the languages representing human emotion through the colour. The colour metaphors are compared on the example of Chinese and Russian painters' works. Key models the article suggests are “red is joy”, “white is purity', “green is life”, “blue is sadness”, and “yellow is care”. The conclu- sions are of use for contrastive linguistics and practical translation