1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.
The way we represent color with emotions is somewhat of a cultural experience. A lot of signage and other items in our daily lives determines how we feel when seeing those colors associated with something else. Red is very bold and often means danger or fear, blue may means you’re sad or depressed and so on. I think when we see certain colors in an artwork our mind automatically makes us see those emotions. Also in the context the colors are used will set the image and tone of the artwork. But before we began associating color with our daily lives, there was the way the ancient artists used color. Blue pigment for example was the most expensive, so the emotion behind it was usually importance and nobility. It was overused because of how expensive so the rarity of it made the painting have value.
2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
The aspect that intrigues me the most is that an object is never made up of just one color. When you’re painting something or creating an artwork with color, there’s always tones and variations of colors that make up the entirety of an object. There are no lines in the real world that are just filled with one color, three’s a gradient between all things and objects. For example, Claude Monet painted the colors he saw in front of him. Whatever the objects were, he wasn’t interested and instead just placed color on his canvas where he saw it in the world. As he started adding more and more color, the painting became what the view in front of him was. The colors combined to form shapes and it wasn’t just splotches of random color but it came together as a piece of artwork. It was amazing the way he picked out colors and combined them to create exactly what he had intended. Another example of this is when Titian used refection in his artworks. He didn’t just paint someone’s skin the color it exactly was because it would be too flat. But by added the reflections of the color clothing they were wearing into the skin tones to create shadow and depth, it really made the paintings come alive.
3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
From the video I think the idea of colors flowing with one another is what can make it beautiful. And I think many agree that when they colors flow nicely is can be very stimulating. When Vincent van Gogh clashed his colors in hopes of making artwork distasteful I would have to agree. It wasn’t as appealing to look at. And I think when things are contrasting too harshly it gives us a feeling of harsh and raw emotion and not as pleasing to look at.
4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions?
In this video it showed how people began to use color more realistically. They made the paintings more lifelike and people could really begin to relate to them. When something is painted so realistically, people can really put themselves into that moment, and find they enjoy feeling that emotion so vividly.
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