Color Theory and Emotional Effects

1. Specific colors can have cultural or individual associations. They can be used symbolically or to set a mood. Colors often have contradictory cultural associations. Examples: Red can symbolize danger and anger, but also joy and love. Yellow color or cowardice or ill health, also summer days. Context provides clues to a color meaning or emotional impact. http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/4/1/1.html

2. What most intrigues/ fascinates me about color is how depending on a color it can represent a mood, setting, action. Moreover our society has had an effect on how we see colors as well is what fascinates me more, we have set standards on what colors mean and represent. Green means "go" red means "stop", why couldn't stop signs be brown? Red means love in some situations, valentines day is all red because we made it that way. Yellow is summer... blue is happy. This is what fascinates me the most. We can change our moods based on color, is that just what our body reacts too or we did this as a society? When we wake up and its sunny and cloud free it seems like most of us are happy, but if it was dark and raining our moods would change.

3. Biggest impacts from the video
- use places with different colors that spark imagination
- power of colors on people and what they depict from it
-blue used for virgins robes, colors that were more expensive were used for special things in paintings, this showed the power and emotion behind that color
-intensity of paint depends on how it was made  

Video and CNN review

1. From watching the videos and reading the articles, all three of them interrelate to each other. Each video and article have a different way of viewing and understanding art. One video shows you the scientific viewpoint of how we understand art and the meaning of art. It shows how it makes us think what we do. Things and dimensions of our brain make us think they way we do. Well another video gives us the history and background of art and how it started and how everyday life is art. We see, hear, smell touch etc art. Art is not just a painting…

2. I would conclude that the most important philosopher in the video was Plato. Plato was from the 5th century Athens. Plato focused on the “beauty” mostly in his work. A few sayings/preachings by Plato; “ triangles you draw in the sand are copies and imperfections of a perfect triangle.” “ there is a beauty by which all things are beautiful.” Plato wrote all this and more without the anticipation of affecting such a broad audience . He wrote what he thought and saw. He himself had a low opinion of artists and poets. “what is beautiful itself is not this object or that one but that which conveys their own nature.” He wrote the book, the poetics, very simple and basic book. Example, a play had a start, middle and end, its better to make the end a happy ending.

3. Changeux and Ramachandran both gave different perspectives on art, just as art does for everyone else. Changeux has steps for the evolutionary origins of Art. 1. work of art is human production specialized for intersubjective communication that use symbolic forms genitcally and epigenetically encoded. 2. distinct from language- non verbal communication of emotional states, knowledge, experience with multiplicity of codes, under rules. 3. with esthetic efficiency- staggering effects on emotion and reason mobilizing conscious and nonconscious processes. 4. art in contrast evolution- art history renewal yet without apparent progress.

4. The videos and article, like I said before all come in together. They all give different perspectives on how we can view art, the progress, how its made, its history, origin. After reading each one the make you think in a different way and always keep your mind running.

5. I believe after watching the videos, reading the text and article that each one has something of us to learn in a different way. Its all about different ways and perspectives. They all offer something special and a better understanding of art.

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During the duration of this course I expect to learn further in depth about the history of art, various was of viewing art, the different artists and the types of art.

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