#1. Specific colors can have cultural or individual
associations. These colors are symbolically or to set a mood. For example red
can symbolize danger and anger while some see it as passion or love. The My Art
Studio website had a cool slideshow about how we all associate certain colors
with certain objects. Such as a red stop sign or a green light that means go.
If we switched their meanings people wouldn’t know what to do while driving and
it would disrupt our way of life.
#2. I found color schemes as being the aspect of color that fascinates
me most. As a fashion major, design has a lot to do with how while the colors
go together and complement each other. Monochromatic color schemes can have a
unifying effect while analogous colors are next to each other on the color
wheel and create harmony. By selecting two colors on opposite sides of the
color wheel, a complementary color scheme is created. If these “rules” are not followed
the garment would not be atheistically pleasing and people wouldn’t want to
wear it.
#3. Color brings out visual emotion and physiological
emotion. It only takes the use of one color to get the artists point across and
make their emotions known. I found the paintings of Mark Rothko and is idea of
how color is such a powerful medium that it can make everyone that is around it
feel intense emotions towards it. His paintings were meant to decorate the Four
Seasons restaurant in New York. Rothko hated the place and made paintings that
would “ruin the appetite” of everyone that ate there. He hoped his intense reds
and maroons would make the diners feel trapped in the room. It is crazy to
think a painting of a single color could evoke all these emotions and subconsciously
make people not want to eat at a restaurant.
#4. Goya paints portraits of disaster, despair, and
violence. He believed you couldn’t have equality, brotherhood, or freedom without
these monsters. His use of dark, dull colors gives the observer an uneasy
feeling. He seems to see the negative in situations to give a painting a new
vibe from the original intent.
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