Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.
Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them. To see color, you have to have light.When light shines on an object some colors bounce off the object and others are absorbed by it. Our eyes only see the colors that are bounced off or reflected. Without the absorbing and reflection of light, everything would be dark. There would be no color. Everything would simply be black. This plays a role on emotions because dark colors have the tendency to make people gloomy or scared, while bright colors seem to make people happy and calm.
2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
I think that HVI is the most interesting. I liked how on the My Art Studio website, you got to play with art pallets to change the hue, intensity, and value of the colors. You got to mix colors, for example, the primary colors; red, blue, and green, to create other colors. This is interesting to me because while in school you always learned about ROYGBV as a solid color, teachers never showed you what can happen to a color if you use HVI on a color. The color blue for example, you can increase the intensity and make it a very dark true blue, or you can lessen the intensity and find a blue that is almost transparent.
3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
Venice, It is is one of the most beautiful cities. June Redford, lives in London likes to paint in Venice. She says just like a painting, things happen all the time. In the video she went down a back street to see what was going on. She found a building to paint. As shes painting she says the colors are peaceful. Since Venice is a beautiful place to be, the colors are bright, it would be a peaceful painting. It would make someone feel happy. If you were to see a picture of a beach on a sunny for example, that would make a person feel happy opposed to seeing a painting with black skies in a thunder storm. The reason why i was interested in this part of the video is because as stated earlier, all of the buildings in Venice are surround by water so in the painting first you have your building and then you have your water. Water is not a color! Water reflects colors off. She says that common feature is to see the sunlight hitting the surface of the water. You see a puddle outside of your house and you look at it, you see your reflection, you don't see a certain color. First the brick and marble of the buildings must reflect into the water, then the building. But the building is not a perfect shape. The waves and ripples in the water would cause the building to be a little distorted and how Redford can do it is incredibly fascinating.
4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
One of the biggest impacts from this video was on the 16th of October 1793.On this day David shows his painting in Paris, the same day that the Queen of France is being executed. David called his painting the death portrait, a truly political piece of art. The painting can be spiritual without a church as well morbid and frightening. On this day, there were two processions. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. One procession was a grim political funeral while the second was a celebration of new values of the death of the queen. As the Queen of France was being driven down the street, David was still in his apartment, he leaned out the window and sketched a drawing of her. This had to have taken minuets; she was on her way to he executed. They call him a monster for this. I think this section of the video has a lot of color and emotions. While the painting is of a human who is dead, David uses color, HVI, as well as what we learned about Aesthetics in his portrait to protray emotion.
