Art Making/Material Exploration #1: Exploring Value and The Subtractive Color Theory

1. I have created many value scales and color wheels for other art classes. I have never done a color wheel like this one before though. It was great to see how the colors really formed.

2. I love to work with acrylic paint. Mixing the colors and seeing things change. I have done a bit of painting before and I really enjoy any chance to pick up a paint brush. Paint is so versatile and easy to use.

3. We really need to understand colors. To see how the colors blend and mix gives you better knowledge for viewing and appreciating.

4. I don’t really feel I learned anything from the videos. The videos were pretty basic. It is a pretty simple concept that is easy to fallow just through pictures.

Project #1 Elements and Principles

For my slideshow I wanted to make a collection of not only the elements and principles but of things that appealed to me. I am really inspired by the simple things around me. My rabbit Mochi was an inspiration and the subject of my favorite picture in the slideshow, emphasis. I borrowed my roommates cat, who was a wonderful model, and got some really great shots. I tried to really get angles and colors that really represented me. I am really happy with all the images I collected and really feel they fit their designated element or principle.

Week Three

1. Describe Color and its effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Different colors evoke different emotions and feelings. Warm tones such as reds, yellows, and oranges set off the feeling of warmth and closeness in the views mind. Cool colors blue, green, and purple make the viewer feel colder and distant.

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?

Color can affect a person’s appetite. In studies of how colors affect appetite it was found that blue is an appetite suppressant. This is due to a lack of blue colored foods that naturally occur in nature humans don’t have an automatic appetite response to blue. Red on the other hand is found to be an appetite stimulant. This is understandable since red is a substantial color in the foods we eat.

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions?

The aspect that made the biggest effect on me was the fresco period painters use of colors. In the one painting there were multiple different shades of red used across the painting and in some parts the same figure.

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions?

Goya didn’t paint what he was told but painted what he saw in him imagination. What he saw were dark menacing images. He conveyed that darkness through his use of colors. Blacks and grays used to lead to a new idea of art to change the world.

Week 2

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

In Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts I learned the idea of beauty, the role of aesthetics, and different views of aesthetics.

 In aesthetic experience can evolve from human evolution I learner aesthetics relation to human evolution and the brains interaction with art.

2. Which philosopher's theroy on aesthetics do you feel is most important? Be sure to mention the philosphers name, era (time in history), and contribtion to the aesthetic theory in your response.

I like Kants 18th-century theory. Going against "practical reason"  with "human action". I feel it is important because he doesn't't look at aesthetics as something mathematical or something to be broken down. He sees it as "sensibility and reason are brought together by reason and imagination". Through our own individual experiences or lack of we build our opinion of art. Aesthetics are subjective.

3. What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture? 
 
 I think there view is incredible. I would never really think that aesthetics was so deep and complex.
 I like how Changeux explains how aesthetics are related to the conscience and how Ramachandran's 8 laws of aesthetics.


4. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The book did not go into detail about aesthetics. It gave a quick overview. The videos went into great depth and detail. Really elaborating on what was not put into detail. I really liked the different theories that the first video went into detail on as well as the idea of how the brain interacts with art in the second video.

5. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in your reading?

They give a lot of background and in depth information that back up the small inserts of information in the text.  The specific facts, dates, philosophers, and research really help reinforce what the text put simply. I really got a better understanding of the different theories and how they are different and how they evolved into what we believe aesthetics is today.