Color And Its Effect on Emotions

               There are no specific rules that establish how colors affect one’s emotion. They are colors that society has placed on objects, locations and the environment as a symbol. Colors can also be contradicted. For example, the stop sign is usually red, which symbolizes danger and anger, and it as well represents love. Only the information that is given can determine a color’s meaning and emotional impact.

              The principle of function of light was the most interesting theory of color. I never taught about how an object has no appearance apart from light. I learned how an object either absorb or reflect the light that falls upon it. As well, it was interesting to find out when a light strikes a surface some of the color is absorbed and some are reflected back to our eyes.

                In the Color video, the biggest impact on me regarding to color was how June Redfern works to apply blocks, removing, changing and refining the artwork by the Venetian masters four centuries ago. When she critiques the colors in her large oil painting, she states how it did not express the feelings of Venice. When she added color to it, she was able to achieve those feelings.

   

          The biggest impact the Feelings video had on me regarding to color and its effects on emotions was generally the usage of art being used to explore the human condition. Each artist had their own depiction of the human emotion. The contrast between Human and Divine perspective in art was interesting, they stated how the renaissance art introduced perspective in which human work out themselves where they stand. In Medieval art, it is God who determines where mankind stands. Mankind thinks differently about its identity. This was interesting to me because in everyday people debate that some individual makes it in the world because they worked hard, others did not because they were lazy. Others disagreed, they believe that most people make it by luck, and others don’t because of society. Art representing something that exist in history and the present was interesting to me.