Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Third Blog post on color and emotion

1)  There have been studies that have demonstrated that color affects a wide range of psychological and physiological responses. Blue surroundings will significantly lower a person's blood pressure, pulse and respiration. The color red is believed to increase your appetite appetite. The color "passive pink" has a calming effect which can calm you when your tensed up.

2) The theoretical aspect of color that intrigues me the most is that the color red is believed to increase appetite which means i can eat more food theoretically. After finding that theory i now understand why the steakhouse i work as has 2 of the 3 rooms red and the outside of the building is red. I had always heard that color may affect emotions and physiological responses but I never knew specifics about each color. After learning about this color, i now think of restaurants and their use of color schemes when i go there.

3) In the color video, at one point Junaw was back in London and she was trying to recreate a painting that she had seen in Venice; she had used a lot of dark reds and oranges for the building on the left with the man outside of it on the boat. I felt like the left side of the painting was violent and evil. I felt worried for the man on the boat in the painting.

4) In the feelings video, I had liked  Goya's paintings. The paintings from when he was in his mid 40s and later were extremely dark and devil like. it was a little scary to look at, the people in the paintings looked dead or something. There was no light so it seemed like there was no way out. These paintings seemed to be very violent. I could see and almost feel the badness inside of these paintings.

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