LÜSCHER PORTRAITS GALLERY

The concept behind these portraits is utilising the Lüscher Colour Test, a psychological personality test.

The Lüscher colour test is a psycological test developed by Dr. Max Lüscher. He believed that sensory perception of colour is objective and universally shared by all, but that colour preferences are subjective, and that this distinction allows subjective states to be objectively measured by using test colors.

Lüscher believed that because the colour selections are guided in an unconscious manner,

they reveal the person as they really are, not as they perceive themselves or would like to be perceived.

Lüscher believed that personality traits could be identified based on one’s choice of colour. Therefore, subjects who select identical colour combinations have similar personalities. In order to measure this, he conducted a test in which subjects were shown 8 different coloured cards and asked to place them in order of preference. Colours are divided between “basic” (blue, yellow, red, green) and “auxiliary” (violet, brown, grey, and black).

After subjects placed the cards in order from most liked to least liked, they were asked to evaluate the extent to which their personalities matched the descriptive statements formed by Lüscher of each colour.

I have added to the portrait the preference a choice of stripes, square, dots or circles. Using the Lüscher Colour Test, I have used those colours in order of preference for the amount of colour used. Building a portrait of the subject who took the test. The painting being a psychological personality, colour portrait of the subject.