We are born with natural reactions and perception to color. Color can make or break a mood; it can designate anger or happiness, and can even make you hungry. This is evident even with very young children. The popularity of research into the effects of emotion and mental states has grown at a rapid pace over the last few years. Color was even used as medical treatment within ancient Egyptian and Chinese civilizations. I am intrigued by the fact that even though colors have a large effect on mood, some colors represent opposite emotions. Red for example usually represents anger and violence but it also represents love. I find this fascinating because it’s all about personal interpretation.
In the first video, Color, I found that the impact of using bold colors like Van Gogh did to represent feelings of madness and anger. He did this by using deep reds and greens. He used an unnatural clash of colors to make the viewer see a definitive separation between the parts of the painting. In the second video, Goya who was a liberal progressive, used darkness to express his theory that human destiny has a tendency to destroy itself.
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