1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.
Artist use color to portray emotions in art. This, however, is not unique to art, our brains actually process colors in ways that trigger emotion. For example the color red may spark feelings of love or confidence when used with perhaps analogous colors. However, red and its compliment, green, may spark feelings of anger like Van Gogh used to show a cafe late at night.
2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
I've always thought it was interesting that the the color waves that are absorbed by an object are not the color that we see. We actually see the compliment of the color that is absorbed. It also is perplexing to me that it is entirely possible that we all see colors completely different. I may see a shade of green in the grass that is entirely different from yours. What if what I define as blue is actually what someone else defines as purple?
3. In the Color videos, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
Okay well first of all, even though this has nothing to do with color, the footage of June painting is insane to me. She's like a mad woman throwing turpentine on the canvas! Absolutely wild...
But anyways, to answer the actual question here. I keep thinking about the experiment to see if color sped up the perception of time. What they thought going into the experiment was that since blue is a calming coloring then the time would go by slower. What they found was the opposite. When surrounded entirely by red a minute was actually perceived to be about 11 seconds longer. They think that maybe this is because red triggers danger in our brains and perhaps our brains slow the time down to focus on the threat. I think this impacted me because I was in a very blue classroom today and found myself thinking about the effects of the paint chose on the students.
P.S. These videos were pretty cool!
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