Color and it's effect on emotions, Primary colors seem to have the greatest emotional effect on a painting in an intense red creates a strong reaction sometimes of rage, or blood red eluding to violence. Yellow creates an intensity, in contrast lighter values of a color give a softness and less or more subtle reaction to a scene.
The use of light and darkness to elicit the first impression of a painting if the colors are light the first reaction is that the picture is happy or light hearted whether it is or not. A painting with darker coloring will give the impression of a negative, this is not always the case, consider Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson" it is softened with the pale blue and yellows, but the initial emotion is that the scene is not a happy one, though it is.
From the Color video the most significant impact was how much the emotion of June's painting changed when she changed the color of the women in the window from dark blue to soft red and orange, the blue figure did seem almost violent where the softer tones made the whole scene more light hearted
In the coloring of the paintings by Goya the dark colors elicited an immediate negative or a feeling of foreboding, I know the scenes were meant to make people have an emotional response and think about the nature of the depiction, they were very successful in there intent.
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