AED Week 2

1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Emotion

The complex emotional responses evoked by colors are not easily reduced to a set of rules or a series of formulas. Specific colors can have cultural or individual associations. They can be used symbolically or to set a mood. Colors often have contradictory cultural associations. Red can symbolize danger and anger, but it is also used to indicate joy or love. Yellow is the color of cowardice and ill health, but it is also the color of a warm summer day. Only context can provide clues to a color's meaning or emotional impact.

 2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
-While the color blue supposedly elicits the response of being blue or sad as in Picasso’s The Old Guitarist, often just the opposite occurs.  Color and color associations dictate different personal responses to color.  When you look at light blue that is cool in value you think of the sky which is far from depressing.  Or for example ocean blue which brings to mind that of majesty or a vastness teeming with life beneath the surface.  Color, then and the emotional response is dictated by its properties of value or intensity as well as your personal experiences with them.

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions? 
-The thing I found most interesting in this video was that an artist by the name of Mark Rothko wanted to provoke an emotional response with color alone.  He was originially going place his paintings in the 4 seasons restaurant in NY but he hated it so he made paintings that would “ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in this(place)” hoped his intense red and maroons would make the diners feel trapped in the room. With all the doors and windows bricked up so they could nothing but bang there heads against the wall.  I found this to be the most important because I was unaware colors could make people feel of this nature, especially when fine dining

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?
-I particularly liked Francisco Goyas “Black Painting” and his use of darker colors to portray a simple yet sinister feeling.  Like in his painting of the dog in the mud.  "Is it sinking in quicksand, or struggling to get out.  Is it civilization giving into despair or struggling to get out."  Also the one drawing just using black and white and shades of gray where he is sleeping in his studio with nightmares coming out of his head.