1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.

2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

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1. Creating the color wheel and value scale I felt really relaxed and calm. I really enjoyed working on them creating cyan and magenta which was a bit of a challenge for me lacking the actual color I had to create my own from scratch and I really enjoyed accomplishing that.

2. I really enjoyed creating the color wheel. I love to paint even though I'm not a painter but I can do the basics not going in to much detail. 

3. The most important discovery was the fact that all along I knew the primary colors to be red, yellow, and blue. Come to find out it is actually magenta, cyan, and yellow!

4. The most important thing I learned from the videos was red and blue are to dark to be primary colors I would not have guessed that but then again being taught that they are since kindergarden it will stick with you and I'll have a hard time adjusting to the new primary colors. I enjoyed watching the videos seeing other artists create their own version of how to do the color wheel and the value scale.

Reflection Journal 

       For my process of my elements and principles slide show I wanted to capture everything from my day to day activities. Without putting to much thought into stressing over what should I do, where should I go, how am I going to do this project I wanted to not think about it and just take pictures from what I was doing throughout the week. After taking numerous photo's I narrowed it down to what I feel was best fit for each slide. By making my slides personal with the things that I do from the elements in my household I was able to capture the elements and principles and now have a better understanding of the objects in my household and where I go. I really enjoyed taking the time putting this slide show together and I hope you enjoy!

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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.

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

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

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

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1. A number of studies suggests that color effects a wide range of psychological responses. Color is what we are drawn to, to express ourselves or give us an emotional boost. Color can alter moods and emotions just by looking at a color. For example, when you see the color black you think of somber, when you see the color blue it calms you. A famous example of color playing into emotions is the bull and the red cape. Although bull's cannot see the color red it is symbolic that the bull seeing a red cape in front of him will agitated him causing him to ram into the cape ignoring the matador which would be a normal predator that he would ram into. Color is broken down into three categories, primary, secondary, and intermediate. Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow, secondary colors are orange, green, and purple, intermediate colors are what you would mix a primary color with a secondary color creating different shades such as mixing red and orange you would get a new intermediate color of red-orange. We use color to define important dates with symbolic meanings. When you think of two or three colors put together based on cultural norms you can think of specific things of representation. When you see the colors orange and black you think of halloween, when you see red and green together you think of christmas or your school colors or when you see the colors red, white, and blue you think of America or the fourth of July. When artists use specific colors in their paintings or works they are trying to capture an emotion that can be sensed and portrayed to the audience making themselves feel that portrayed emotion. 

2. The theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues me is the fact of just how much color can play with our emotions. You could be in a calm mood but when you see the color red for example it increases emotions of anger and hostility. There are many different types of therapeutic works to help people with their emotional problems and dating back to the first psychologists they used color in order to help individuals believing that color can alter a person's emotions and cure them. Still today we use color to help with our emotional problems. It is said that to better creativity to look at the color green which has been scientifically proven that this myth does intact increase productivity. When artists use color they can alter the views emotion's. It might not be practical in their color pallet but when the artist is paining a picture of a tree which is meant to be somber they will use black along with other dark colors to give the audience the sense of emotions of that beautiful tree holds the symbolic meaning of dark times which can turn our rational minds into an altered state of emotion. 

3. After watching the video on color the biggest impact made on me was by June a painter from London. Watching her continue to paint and paint the same picture over and over again on the same canvas with unconventional methods really intrigued me. Seeing how frustrated she was getting over her painting because the colors looked violent compared to how she remembered a piece of scenery in Venice really amazed me. Watching her moods change throughout her painting reflected the calmness and the anger which was portrayed throughout her painting until she came to her final masterpiece. It really did show me just how much color has an effect on our emotions. 

4. After watching the video on feelings the biggest impact made on me was by a painting (I'm not entirely sure of the name) of David and his son's begging to go into battle for their father while the women sit on the sideline. Without knowing the story of the painting you know what is going on in the painting and you can sense the different emotions coming from the males and the females. When looking at the males you can see the the desperation and excitement wanting those swords to fight and you as the audience can feel the nervousness for those men going to fight for their lives. When you look at the females you can sense the sadness and heartbreak they are feeling by seeing the men going to battle and you as the audience can sense their sadness and pain.

Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:

1. For each video and article list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

2. Which philosopher's theory on aesthetics do you feel is most important? Be sure to mention            

    the philosophers name, era (time in history), and contribution to the aesthetic theory in your       

    response.

3. What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art? 

    What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture? 

4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text?

5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the 

    topics in your reading in the text?

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1. One of the key concepts that I have learned is from Arthur C. Danto a professor at Columbia  

    university making the statement of what makes something a work of art? What is the 

    difference from everything else? this to be the beginning question when you are looking at         

    something to define what it actually is classified as. Art in era of B.C. was not viewed as 

    something aesthetically pleasing but rather looked down upon from philosophers especially 

    from Plato. He thought poorly of artists and poets because of the “fact” that their works of art 

    were just imperfect copies of the real objects and were speaking of things that were untrue  

    or unrealistic in the mind of a philosopher. Alexander Baumgarten famously coined the word 

    of aesthetic and its meaning. When it came to Changeux and Ramachandran’s lecture I 

    found it really interesting how evolution played a role in the works of art. How the origin and 

    the capacity of the brain allowed artists to only create what could have been allowed by 

    their capacity of knowledge and surroundings. I really found it strange and amusing that art 

    is a “lie.” The artist create his piece of work by what he or she perceives to be the truth and 

    we as an audience will either buy into that work of art or we will disapprove of the work 

    created. It is the job of the artist to make us believe that it is believable and acceptable that 

    the sky is painted green for example and that the tree is very unrealistic in its line drawings 

    but if the artist can make us see the whole picture and trick us into thinking that work is 

    actually a reflection from the sky to the ground then they have pulled off the truth.  

2. Francis Hutcheson form 18th century stated, “Ideas brought about in our soul by beauty and  

    harmony delight us necessarily and immediately, just like the other sensible ideas.” I feel 

    that this is really important because due to Plato giving artists a really a really poor 

    reputation and discredited their work it brought life back into artists work when being viewed 

    by others. Artists were on the rise and were given credit for their work by Aristotle creating a 

    book of poetics which showed how art was indeed for a fact constructed but with this quote 

    from Hutcheson it opened a new door in the viewing of art. Individuals were now not just 

    seeing the beauty but could related to it on a personal level and bring joy to their lives

    based off of what they were able to see and interpret from what they were able to view the 

    work of art as. 

3. From Changeux and Ramachandran’s scientific view of aesthetics and art lecture I found the 

    most interesting fact to be related to the brain. Work’s of art has made progression in detail 

    as the decades went on from the level of being able to comprehend and the advances in 

    tools. Individuals in the earliest forms of art created were only able to make stick and line 

    drawings because that is all that their brains to handle and allow the artists to create along 

    with the tools used which were usually stones. As the mind started to advance over the 

    decades and brain capacity was increasing details and new forms of art were able to 

    generate as well as the tools that could create the art.

4. The videos and article relate to the readings in the text by giving us a visual example of 

    works of art form that time, to pictures of philosophers, in-depth meanings behind the 

    decades of why art is created, the time history from where the beginning of art was created 

    up to modern day, and the history of how we got to works of art in this day and age. 

5. I really enjoyed watching the films and reading the CNN article. It really added depth in the 

    fact of how humans created art and how through the era’s were able to expand their 

    capacity of the brain and increase their methods in creating their works of art and the 

   appreciation levels growing as the era’s went by.


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First Blog

I created my gmail account a few years ago. When it came to setting up this blog it was very difficult for me. If any of you have a mac book it keeps you logged into your email(s) and frequently used websites that you have accounts for. Well when trying to set up my blogger I was having a hard time but that could be the blonde in me. Turns out that I could not access this website due to being logged into my buff state email. I never sign out of my email and even with restarting my computer it still never kicked me out so you can imagine my frustration when I could not figure out why I could not log on. I spent a long time trying to research what the error message on blogger was trying to tell me but still no luck. Finally after emailing the professor giving me helpful advise how to correct this problem it occurred to me that I was still logged in to my buff state email while signed into my gmail account as well. After I was able to log in finally it was simple figuring out the rest. What I expect to learn from this course is simply learn more about art and learn to appreciate every art form whatever it may be along with some famous artists history and how art has become what it is today based off those historical artists. I have taken multiple online courses and I prefer taking classes this way due to my busy schedule and being a mom. Being aware of the art that surrounds us is important and to be conscious of the expressions that are being shown. We can show and express ourselves through our art and share our stories by not actually speaking words but the audience will know what story is being told through that art work.