⇒ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557471
I really like this article and one thing it highlights is how color is a second class citizen in Western philosophy.
In Chromophobia, art theorist David Batchelor argues that the devaluation of color can be traced to the very birth of Western thought. From Plato onward, color was treated as a distraction: sensory noise that got in the way of rational understanding.
I too think of stripping color away from things and believing that form should take precedence over everything. I never stopped to think about why I think that to be the case. It probably has to do with I don't really have an eye for design but maybe it also has to do with the idea that we don't need color, the form is enough.
This reminds me of the white greek statues which in reality would have been quite colorful back at their peak and it's only now that we have it colorless. We idolize these statues as being truly classical but it's a fiction.