Color and the Emotions

Color has an unbelievable effect on emotions.  I work at DuPont and a couple of years ago I know they hired a company to come in and paint around the plant.  This company had an expert that went through and selected colors that would make the happiest and most productive employees.  Before that I never really thought about colors having anything to do with productivity but after the plant was painted I was shocked at how good it looked and how it made me feel.  The video says that green fits in with nature and the environment, yellow is supposed to bring out happiness, red is thought of related to anger, and blues are supposed to be calming.

Is what is interested to me is history and the color of gold related to people socioeconomic status in their society.  Thinking back a King of a country is always picture with a gold crown and staff just shows the power that he/she is entrusted with to rule and oversee the land.  That shinny color people have risked everything and tried to mine it from the earth.  There is a lot of history behind it.

I thought the biggest impact on me during this video was Junaw account of Venice’s river.  The boat just has this death defying terror feel when I looked at it.  The boat just sticks out and color has everything to do with making this possible.  The coloring was violent and after thinking about it I’m really not sure what the artist wanted the viewer to think.  After pondering a couple of possibilities I still could not come up with a defendant answer this is why I recently found art to be interesting because I have a one of a kind perspective when looking at art.  

I thought the coloring and the artwork during the renaissance was particular interesting.  During this time art was revolutionized.  It seemed that the work from the era involves a lot of portraits of famous and well known people.  These people are being remembered by the coloring and the perspective the artist gave and I feel it is so important for us to understand why the artist used this color over that color.  The artist was trying to create a masterpiece that would be remembered and looked at for years to come.  The artist uses his/her imagination and colors to depict the object that they are trying to portray.  I find how the use of different colors has to do with the emotions of the artist felt is very interesting.