Color-Week 3 Post

1. Color and it's effects on emotions
          Color is probably the visual element that gives us the most pleasure. Almost everybody has a favorite color, a color that they are drawn to.
          Color can have a powerful effect on a person's body and brain in many ways. Many studies have found that color affects a wide range of our phsychological and physiological responses. For example: red is said to increase appetite, blue is said to lower bloodpressure, pulse, and respiration rate. Color can have a culturally conditioned response (green light means go) as well as a deeply personal response .

2. The thing about color theory that intrigues me the most is the fact that nothing is actually a color. The way I see it, things are every other color BUT the one we percieve it to be. The reason I look at it this way is because when we see a red object for example, the object is not red in and of itself, but it is absorbing all of the other colors in the light spectrum except red, and reflecting the red, therefore that is the color that we see. I have herad this time and again ever since I was doing art in elementary school but it always seems to fascinate me.

3. The thing that made the biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effect on emotions in the Color video was the fact that when June was talking about her finished painting and it was showed, she talks about the feeling and emotion that Venice evoked in her. She wasn't looking to capture the exact image of Venice, but the emotions it made her feel. She talks about how psychological and emotional color is, and I agree with her, and her kind of painting is something that could evoke different emotions from different people because different people can associate one color with a multitude of different emotions.

4. In the feelings video, the thing that made the biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effect on emotions was much of David's work, especially the Oath of Horatio; when the speaker goes into detail about the painting and gives you a little bit of background and then says now pretend you didn't know that, what would you see? The emotion that the painting conveys by using color to make the painting so lifelike and very realistic makes you feel the tenseness and almost desperation of the warriors in the painting. The shadows darken the painting, which darken the mood and make you feel the sense of doom and gloom. Noble virtue was the mind of the French Revolution, and David did a fantastic job immortalizing that emotion.