Value Scale and Color Wheel

Color Wheel

Value Scale

1.) I actually like painting. Sometimes when I have no homework to do I will go to the store and buy a canvas and paint for fun. But just because I like painting, does not mean I know the history behind it. I had fun mixing these colors and trying to produce the primary colors. The value scale was a little different. It was easy but figuring out how to make each square lighter as you went up the scale was more difficult than it seems. 

2.) Like I said above, I really like painting. Paint is probably my favorite medium to use. I love how smooth it is and feels on any surface. 

3.) The most important discovery to me was the amount of colors you can make from cyan, magenta, and yellow. While creating the color wheel, I made a bunch of different colors trying to make red, green, and blue. 

4.) The most important thing I learned from these videos was that the primaries; cyan, magenta, and yellow produce the secondaries; red, blue, and green and when they combine they make black. I never learned this in high school or anywhere else, and I took art classes! The videos were simple and easy to follow. 

Slideshow

Doing this project was pretty fun in my opinion. I liked pretending I was a photographer for the week. Heres how I got some of my ideas; For line, I instantly thought of the idea to take a picture of the neatly folded jeans at work (American Eagle). For Shape, my boyfriend and I went to a movie theater on Valentines day and the ceiling there was really cool and bright. Of course I wanted to put my animals in the slideshow so I used them for texture and value. For contrast, I braided my cousins and my best friends' hair together. For movement, I used a newtons cradle in motion. I had fun coming up with these ideas. Unfortunately, I do not have a camera so all of these photos were taken on my iPhone XS, I used portrait mode often. I think they turned out pretty good.

Here is my slideshow:

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Color

Describing Color

Color is the concept of reflecting or absorbing light. While objects reflect light while black objects absorbs most of the light. Mixing colors is very interesting. When working with light, mixing red, green, and blue together you get white, which I found interesting. Colors can often be used to create or set a mood. The color red displays anger or it can display love, or something warm. Yellow can be used to display illness, or a warm summer day. It is interesting how much color impacts our lives on the daily. Red meaning stop and green meaning go, red meaning love, especially on valentines day, colors are very important and especially cannot be changed.

Theoretical Color

Color is beautiful, color gives everything life. Analogous colors that compliment each other and harmonize are my favorite. Red, pink, and purple compliment each other very well, they look very vibrant. It is very interesting that additive coloring using light, red, blue, and green, when mixed together make white. I would never think that when mixing colors together you can make white. Also, subtractive coloring, mixing magenta, yellow, and cyan makes black.

Color

While watching this video, watching June recreate a feeling inside of her onto a canvas, she had to keep in mind that color was the mood of the painting. What made the biggest impact on me is how bold a color is when it is shown by itself. Artist like Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko used bold colors to express strong emotions about places. Van Gogh used the colors green and red to represent the depressing mood and distaste he had in a cafe. Color made him represent himself more forcibly. The clash of the colors red and green made his point known. Rothko used color alone to provoke an emotional response he had about a restaurant in New York. He wanted people to feel trapped and wanted to ruin their appetites. From the other color video, restaurant designers use colors that will make you hungry, like red and brown as lights or wall paint. Color constancy is fundamental to the way we see color. This is the way that the brain perceives color, which can be different between individuals.

Video and Article review

Aesthetics: Philosophy of Art

This videos main focus is the aesthetics of art, the beauty of art. From the roots all the way up to the 20th century. The roots of art is believed to have begun in the 4th century B.C. by Plato.
Throughout the years, many philosophers interpreted art and aesthetics in many different ways. The german philosopher of the 19th century, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was believed to have created a turning point in aesthetics history, he believed art imitates nature. Hegel distinguished three ages in the history of art, eastern, classical, and romantic. Hegel rejected the representational theories of art. He believed that art ended, it was a completed process. Romantic art was the last word in aesthetics. I believe Hegel's view were most important to aesthetic history. As time went on, through the 20th century, views of art were still changing. It is concluded that art cannot clearly be defined, art can consist of anything from performances and music to poetry, to sculpture and painting.

CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Neurobiology, Neurology and Art and Aesthetics

Although some of this video did not make sense to me, I do not know much about science, I found some of the views of Changeux and Ramachandran interesting. When thinking about art, I have never considered the scientific view behind it. It is interesting how much art can alter the human mind. When watching Changeux's presentation, I found it interesting when he talked about empathy. The MRI's showed the difference between men and women when influenced by empathy. Art makes us aware of oneself. Ramachandran believes in the 8 laws of art (aesthetics), which is really just explaining the simple way of how the brain interprets art. It is interesting how art is actually proven to be pleasing to the brain.

What the Brain Draws From: Art and Neuroscience

This article pointed out a bunch of aspects about art that I have never noticed before. The way artist used different techniques like equal luminance is very interesting. The article stated that there are certain parts of the brain that try to distinguish faces from paintings and recognize color contrast. Artist will then play with different techniques to bring out these aspects in their art. I enjoyed reading about famous artists like Di Vinci and Monet and the way they used different techniques in their famous paintings. When science is brought into the concept of art I tend to get a little bit confused but it is amazing how the brain works when looking at art. 

The reading correlated with the videos and the article, talking about the history behind art, dating back to the stone age and the caves of Europe with walls covered in paintings. Art can be interpreted in many different ways, especially varying through cultures. Vincent Van Gogh was mentioned frequently throughout all of the sources. I have always wondered about the truth behind him cutting a portion of his ear off. The reading was more in depth about the themes of art and what it means. 

Opinion:


I liked learning about the history of art. At times it was a bit confusing because I do not know much about neuroscience but I still feel like I understood it pretty well. The history of art is interesting, the different themes, and conceptions was cool to learn about, I didn't know much from the beginning.