Module 3

1. Describe color and its effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

      Color has great effects on emotions.  It can express/effect your mood or give you a certain feeling.  I know that there have been studies about how people behave in rooms painted different colors.  One might be pink and certain people will be very calm in that room while they would behave differently in a room that is painted bright green.  The website shows that colors can have the same meaning.  Red, for instance, means love, stop, danger, passion – all just from one color.  It was interesting to play around and see which color was the product of the three primary colors being reflected and absorbed.

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

     Describing colors in terms of temperatures always interested me.  I remember in fourth grade learning about warm and cool colors on the color wheel.  Usually expressed by reds, oranges, greens, and blues, the section about this on the website allowed you to fill in colors on a picture and make them warmer and cooler, depending on what you wanted.  The greens could be faded to purple and the reds to orange.  The site talks about how the warm colors appear up front, while the cooler colors fade off.  It says “artist often use these properties of color temperature to enhance the spatial characteristics of their work.”  I never would’ve thought to correlate the warmness or coolness of a picture to their spatial characteristics.

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

     In the color video, I felt as though a few things impacted my in regards to color and its effects on emotions but the artist that was painting in Venice really was interesting to me.  She said that colors made her feel alive.  I’ve seen pictures before that interest me and I know that it is because of the coloring.  I’m drawn to more bright, vibrant colors.  If the painting is full of dull, “boring” (to me) colors, I’m most likely not going to be interested in looking at it for too long.  I also really like black and white photos.  I love how my eyes are drawn to a certain part of the picture before they fade off into the rest of the painting.  I would have to agree with the artist when she says the colors made her feel alive.  I feel like I am the same way.  I like things to be bright and to “pop out;” to stand out.

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

     I always wondered about the Mona Lisa painting and what its importance and significance was.  From this video, it showed that looking at her smile is a big part of the painting but it also it mysterious in a way.  I feel like this painting shows that she is a normal woman, nothing too crazy about her.  The colors are warm in this painting and it shows that she is an important individual and somewhat genuine, I feel.  If it were cooler colors, maybe it would give off a different initial vibe about her.  I don’t necessarily feel any certain way when looking at this painting but it did interest me into learning more about it and her.