Module 3 blog

1. Certain colors can trigger certain emotions and feelings depending on the situation or individual perception. It is assumed that the color blue can quench a person’s appetite and that’s why you don’t see a lot of blue foods or blue surroundings in restaurants. Specific colors can have cultural or individual associations. Such as the color blue we dominantly use when we buy gifts for a newborn baby boy and pinks/yellows/purples to celebrate the birth of a baby girl. Color is how humans perceive objects when they absorb light.

2. What aspect I find most fascinating about color is the way certain colors can be interpreted in different meanings. The first thing I think about when I see the color red is love. However what I think about next is danger or blood. Orange/yellow I think about the sun and flowers then I can think about flames. I find it interesting that we are accustomed to thinking positively and negatively about just one color. I also find it interesting how we perceive colors to be gender stereotypes. Blues, greens, oranges, reds are all seen masculine and pinks, yellows, purples are seen as feminine. Who came up with such a gender separation? How would it feel different if this idea wasn’t planted into our heads at all?

3. In the Emotions video, I love the way artists use colors to express their current emotions or feelings. I know I am personally moved when I see dark shades of colors I feel melancholy, or depressed and then bold bright colors bring out a feeling of some spontaneous exciting nature. I loved the way the artists June had this relationship of love/hate with her painting. I know when I paint and people comment how perfect it is I always seem to be fixing even the slightest parts of it because something always feels slightly off. I have a personal connection with her there. I love how the colors worked together and it made her feel as if she were back in the country. The short clip where they showing artist Mark R’s work really captured my attention. Just looking at his paintings (which he wanted to capture a response of the viewers using colors alone) using dark shades of red and maroons you can feel anger/unease/hatred/evil all negative feelings and emotions, which represents exactly what he wanted to portray. He hated the 4 seasons where his paintings were to be located in a restaurant in NY he told us he hoped these paintings would quench the appetite of the customers, make them feel trapped within the room basically with no way out so “they can do nothing but bang their heads against the wall”. Exactly what he described is how I would feel seeing those paintings surrounding me. He really captured with just colors how he felt.

4. -“the people who came to the chapel in northern Italy to pray didn’t care about the artistic techniques but the stories of the bibles but such techniques intensified the stories so people could emotionally identify with them they saw feeling in all its light and shade”

In the Feelings video, I think what I have noticed the most about these art works made during the humanist art in the Italian Renaissance from this video, most of the paintings seem to be colors of similar taste. Lots of gold, cream, browns, auburn colors and then in little areas spurts of bold bright colors bringing the paintings identity or emotions out. The colors give these painting an older feel and it seems to be used in paintings that have people of wealth or bravery being shown. The artists Goya paints “despair of humanity” using dark shades of color and black to give a feel or sense of hopelessness, remorse and of melancholy. He tends to do oil paintings or sketches in back and white when there is some type of sadness such as the sketch of the death of the Queen. I love that the serious messages Goya wants to portray in his paintings are being done so using serious colors.