Color Theory And Its Emotional Effects On One's Self

1.  Color and emotion have been linked together for centuries. When one sees a certain color, it often triggers an emotional response either good or bad, depending on the person viewing the color.

There is no set guide for how one reacts to different colors when it comes to emotion. The closest thing we have to a guide is the context that one puts colors in. Some colors trigger good thoughts and emotions in someone while evoking sad thoughts in someone else. It’s all about context.  

In plenty of cases, colors effect our thoughts about certain items. Like the MyARTStudio link shows, it’s weird to look at a bowl of blue food, or a blue Valentine’s Day card. We have, engraved in our minds, ideas of what things should be what colors. It’s all based on our cultural upbringing.

2.  When it comes to the theoretical aspects of color, I have to say that the aspect that intrigues me the most is the fact that there are only three primary colors – red, yellow, and blue. It’s crazy to think that out of the hundreds up hundreds of known colors, only three of them cannot be made by mixing other colors together. It’s something you learn in grammar school, but you don’t truly comprehend that idea until you really learn about it.

3.  After watching the video on Color, I feel that the thing that made the biggest impact on me as far as color and its effects on emotions is how vivid colors can create such joy among a person. For example, June Redfern, while walking through Venice in the early portion of the video sees how the colors come together by the boat and bridge, and decides to do a quick painting right there. The colors of it all caught her eye and sparked a creative motivation in her to get something done. Just knowing that color can motivate someone to do a painting really made me think about what color does for me in my life.

4.  In the “Feelings” video, the thing that made the biggest impact on me was just how different a person’s emotions can be from someone else’s simply based on the one color, or a group of colors, and how (a) specific color(s) is(are) represented.

The fact that some people can view colors as joyous and special while others can view the same colors as dark and depressing is something that just fascinates me. Just learning about how different cultures and individuals view color is just incredible.