Color in Art: More than just Roy G. Biv

1 – I think color and it’s effects on emotion are a product of repetition in daily life.  We grow accustomed to emotions based on what we expect from that color.  Red is a cautionary or dangerous color.  I associate it with a stop sign, hot or boiling, blood, and things like that.  If you change the hue of red to pink it is a more subtle emotion.  I associate pink with babies, valentines and breast cancer awareness which is really a joyful thing where people are together for a cause.  Red and Pink is just an example of how I think color effects emotion, much the same could be said for most colors.

2 – One aspect of color that I like is the optical effects of color.  I like how when complimentary colors are next to each other they seem more vibrant and how a massive amount of dots can look like something totally different when you get farther away.  Things like this I never really took notice of until reading this module.  I remember reading the Sunday comics as a kid and each week there was one of those strips in there with the picture that you had to stare at until your eyes changed focus and you could see another image.  Color, when looked at with a little more of an educated angle, can be used to an artistic advantage for the eyes of your audience. 

3 – In the Color video, the biggest impact to me in regards to color and it’s effects on emotions was on the artists struggle to get the colors on the canvas just right.  Each time she made a change the painting seemed right to me and it’s effects was nice.  But as she worked at it the final product did make a difference.  It was more visually appealing compared to the original subject matter.  I also like how she didn’t just decide the colors didn’t match her emotion by just looking at the painting.  She looks at it from different angles, she used what looked like binoculars and she even went outside and looked through a dirty window to feel the effects of her painting.  She said she painted how she felt about the subject and worked hard to show that feeling and that to her was the emotion that she wanted to convey.

4 - In the Feelings video, the biggest impact to me in regards to color and it’s effects on emotions was about perspective.  This has always been a fascination of mine with art.  How an artist can paint a picture of something that looks like it is infinite, never-ending.  Or something, like a person, painted at an angle where it seems that you actually looking at them and the closer arm is shorter than the arm farther away because of the angle.  This I’ve always struggled with trying to depict on paper when I try to draw it myself.  The video covers how the renaissance artists used perspective in their paintings to evoke feeling.  Especially in their religious paintings which were awesome pictures depicting artist renditions of religious events.  The perspective was not only on the figures in the pictures but also in the structures in there.