Monday, June 10, 2013

Color Theory and It's Emotional Effects


1.     Color is light reflected off an object. For example a plant reflects green light, an apple reflects red light. Color is composed of three primary colors red, blue, and green. The combination of two of these colors will create their complementary: cyan, yellow, and magenta. The combination of all these colors will create white light, which is why if you shine light through a prism you will get the visible light spectrum. Different colors are have different effects on people and the way they feel. For example in movies if a scene is lit with blue light, the scene will appear cold, and will make scene seem somewhat grim and serious. Where as if you light it with yellow light the scene will appear warmer, and therefore more jovial.

2.     I am intrigued by how light and pigments act differently. With light the primary colors are red, blue, and green. With pigments, the primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. I guess is due the green cones in our eyes, but it is still weird how we can physically see blue and yellow mix to turn green, but when it comes to light, it’s completely different.

3.     I think just seeing the pigments being made a lasting impression in my mind. It’s kind of like watching the food channel. You really have no interest in it, but yet it is so hypnotizing. I learned that blue was a very rich color back in the day, and it just reminds me of how blue is usually associated with royalty.

4.     Well whomever the host of this video, did a great job presenting. It’s like he was about to describe an epic battle, so I enjoyed when he got onto the discussion of Francisco Goya and how he used darker colors in his paintings, resulting in a dark, blunt, primal mood being created.

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