MODULE THREE: COLOR AND VIDEOS!

1. Color has five properties: hue, intensity, value, HVI (hue, value, intensity), and schemes. Specific colors can have cultural or individual associations that trigger our emotions. Color is the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light. Color has be used to portray different emotions. For example, if you are in a sad mood and you are going to paint a picture, you might use more pale colors. You may use blues, black, grey. Color in artwork can set the mood for the entire piece of artwork. 

Colors can also be described in multiple settings. For example, they are used for traffic lights and temperature. Temperature being; warm, cool. 

2. A theoretical aspect of color that is most interesting to me is the color wheel. The color wheel can be used in multiple ways. Color adds excitement and liveliness into the world. Color can set the mood for a piece of artwork, it can express your emotions. I have a friend who is color blind  and when we were in high school together, he struggled in art class. It was sad, but he just saw the world a different way. For example, the color blue, appeared green to him. He worked through this colorblindness and surprisingly succeeded in our art class. His artwork was actually more abstract than the rest of ours because he added colors to a painting that many of us didn't even think of putting there. Although he did this intentionally, it turned out to be his breakthrough. 

3. In the color video, what fascinated me the most was that paints actually contain three elements. These elements are pigment, oil, and beeswax. This helps the paint appear more bold, and intense. Personally, I love to paint. Throughout high school I was in an IB art class for two years. So I knew that paint contained these three elements, but this video really showed how it can intensify the color to set the mood for the artwork. 

4. The Feelings video discussed how color has a strong, positive impact on its effects on emotions. The two artists that were discussed in this film were Leonardo Da Vinci and Giotto. It was interesting to me that how you display the art can have an effect on the emotion. Using space, and not having cluttered artwork can effect the mood on the artwork. I feel as though if a piece of art has more space, it leads more room for reflection. Whereas, if you are looking at an artwork that is cluttered it may appear chaotic or confusing.