Friday, February 14, 2014

Module Three: Color Theory and Emotional Effects

1. Describe Color and its effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.
Color can be described as a function of light.  Without the presence of light there can be no color.  Color has many different effects on us as humans when pertaining to our emotions.  Color comes in many different hues, shades, and intensity to name a few.  Through many different forms of color we can enjoy a array of feeling and emotions when viewing them.  Some people are drawn to certain colors and others react to certain colors in different ways.  I am drawn to the color yellow, it reminds me of sunflowers, sun and warmth.  This colors makes me happy.
2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
It was interesting to learn that nothing has actual color in it.  All colors depend on the light and color is reflected light rays.  I also found it interesting that on the color wheel (or just the colors in general) reds, oranges, and yellows are considered to be the warm colors.  I can see how they have been associated with sunlight and fire.  Yet on the other side of the color wheel you have blue, green and violet that are considered cool colors.  These colors are associated with sky, water and shade.  Before this class, I never really gave it much thought.  I knew that they were considered warm and cool colors but never linked them to things in our everyday life.  That was cool to me and really brought more understanding to the color wheel.  I like being able to take what I am learning and linking it to something in my everyday life.  I like how colors are incorporated with our everyday life also.  For example a stoplight has red for stop and green for go.  Or a fire engine is red, like fire.
3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
The biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effects on emotions is how color is used to create an emotion within us.  Whether bright colors of red and blues make for a depressing or violent mood or subtle colors like creams and lighter shades make for a more harmonious, happy mood.  Bold colors express strong emotions and finding the right match of colors can cause a pleasing effect on the artist and the audience viewing the art.  Feeling come through art in the form of shapes and colors, and it is these feeling that creates these artworks.  I remember when painting my first child’s bedroom I read an article on what colors you should not paint in a child’s room because it is those colors that will provoke certain behaviors in the child.  Yellow definitely was on that list of do not paint because it was believed that babies cannot sleep in a room painted yellow.  I find it amazing that colors can dictate our moods.  

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions? 

In this video the biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effects on emotion is when colors were referred to light and dark referring to anger and happiness.  I like learning about how the colors were made and that blue was a more expensive color because of how labor intensive it was to create the color.  This color was used in the most important parts of paintings.  This video seemed very grim to me, except for the section on the Mona Lisa.  The narrator kept pointing out the dark images and dark feelings behind the painting and what those things translated to.  Those painting definitely gave me a morbid feeling on the artists views of that time. 

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