Week 3

1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Color is very psychological. It has many ideas, feelings and symbols behind it. Certain colors can evoke certain feelings or emotions. The film mentioned how one artist used reds in paintings to hang in a restaurant so that the customers would feel like they were caged in and want to leave. Another artist used contrasting colors (red and green) to show distaste.





2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?

When watching to the video about "The Assumption" it was interesting to hear that colors affect each other. This seems obvious but I have never heard it put into words like that. Colors affecting each other are different than colors reflecting off of each other. For example, the color red painted on the woman's cloak affects the color of her hand.




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

It was most interesting to me that back when The Assumption was being created, artists had to go far and wide to get certain colors. One color may be more costly than another. Therefore, the more costly colors were used less. Essentially, when the more costly colors were used it was often found in the focus of the picture; The part of that picture that is most likely to evoke some sort of emotion.

Perhaps the reasoning for certain emotional reactions to certain colors have something to do with where they came from.




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

In the video, they showed a painting from David which characterizes three men, a man holding swords and weeping women. This painting is telling a story with colors. The dark, bland colors in the background create geometric shapes that groups this painting into three parts. The colors represent the doom that is about to come.