Color Theory and Emotional Effects

1. Describe Color and its effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.
Color has 3 distinct properties: hue, intensity, and value.  Hue is the color itself, like red, blue, green, etc.  Intensity is a color’s purity or strength.  This means weather the color is bright or dull.  Value is the addition of white or black to the color.  Adding white or black creates different tints or tones of the color.  Colors can affect our mood in so many different ways.  The intensity of a color can make you feel happy if it is a bright color or sad if the color is very dull.  Certain hues can make you feel angry (red), sad (blue), awake (yellow), or even depressed (black).  

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?
Emotion fascinates me the most because you never really think about color matching up with certain words we use all the time.  It was hard for me to picture a stop sign being any color other than red.  Imagine how the world would be if the sky was green and the grass was blue.  It is crazy to me to think that reversing colors like that would change how we think and feel so much.

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions?
When June Redfern said that the colors in her painting made it look violent instead of soft and mysterious, it got me thinking about different shades of colors.  Her painting had a lot of dark colors as opposed to light.  When you think about it, it makes sense for dark colors to give you a feeling of violence and hatred.  Black gives you a sense of evil.  When you have a lot of dark colors in the same painting, it would give you the impression of violence.  

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions? 
 The biggest impact on me in regards to color and its effects on emotion was when they showed Goya's painting.  He used to paint very bright and colorful scenes, but later ended up painting very dark and gloomy paintings.  Here I could see just how much colors can affect the mood of a painting.  In the bright and colorful paintings you could feel the happiness and joy of the people.  However, in the dark and gloomy pictures you could feel the depression and hopelessness.