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Expressive, Emotional
Color
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Expressive, Emotional Color
In other words: Psychological Color; color used to appeal to your senses, your psyche; to provoke a psychological reaction or emotion
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Main Aspects to look for in an artwork:
• Format: the size/scale & materials used to create the work
• Subject Matter: the main person or object being represented
Example: figure, landscape, line or shape
• Relationship between forms & space: figure-ground,
dynamic between elements such as color, line, shape, texture, value
• Content: the main theme or underlying statement
behind an artwork. *Iconography: symbols
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Color can function both
formally or expressively…
Format:Subject:Relationship between forms & space:Content:How does COLOR contribute?
Format:Subject:Relationship between forms & space:Content:How does COLOR contribute?
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Format: painting on canvasSubject: rectilinear formsRelationship: shifts in value create 3D space; balance of light/dark creates light direction.Content: neutral, unemotional shapes in spaceHow does COLOR contribute?The shifts in color & value create shapes & spaceand a sense of light direction. It’s monochromatic, smooth, opaque application lend itself to creating a sense of control and balance emotionally.
Format: painting on canvas Subject: portraiture – human headRelationship: disjointed, ambiguous,raw, visceral mark-making, rich texturesContent: implies anxiety, disturbed mental state of beingHow does COLOR contribute?The colors are a wide mixture of warm/cool,light/dark, opaque & transparent. TheManner in which they’re applied is “raw”and haphazard, contributing to it’s appearance oflacking control – provoking a sense of imbalance
emotionally.
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Harmony vs. Discord: Harmonious colors can create a pleasing effect,
while discordant colors create unease in the viewer
Jean Michel Basquiat’s painting Untitled from 1981
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Franc
Francis Bacon
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Frances Bacon- Self-Portraits
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Colors and their associations…
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Edvard Munch’sThe Sick Child1896
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Van Gogh’s Café Terraceon the Place du Forum, Arles at Night
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Paul Gauguin’sLe Christ JauneYellow Christ
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Frances Bacon’sStudy After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953; Oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 46 1/2 in
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Paul Gauguin Fatata te mipi (delectable waters), 1892 The white horse, 1898
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Colors’ meaning can change, depending on the SUBJECT or the CONTEXT…
Color can also direct the CONTENT of an artwork…
Color has the power toimply multiple meanings &
communicate different messages
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Common Associations with Key Colors:
• Red / Red-Violet = Love, Passion
• Black / Grays = Anger, Emptiness
• Greens = Calm, Refreshing, Quiet
• Blues = Depressing
• Yellows / Oranges = Energy, Happiness
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Alternative Associations with Key Colors:
*Red ALSO signifies violence, blood (pain), anger, warning!
*Black ALSO suggests mysterious, power, liberty *Green ALSO linked to jealousy, illness, poison
*Blue ALSO associated with cleanliness, freshness
*Yellow ALSO implies weakness, cowardly
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Matisse’s The Joy of Life
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Intro. to Today’s Exercise:
• Take a few snapshots in Photobooth
• Desaturate & Posterize in Photoshop
• Colorize in a Cool / Warm palette
• Note the results: does color change the mood, personality, content of your portrait?