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.