1. I enjoyed making both the color wheel and the value scale. After reading the textbook, I became very curious about how the colors came about. This project had answered many of my questions.
2. I enjoy enjoyed making the color wheel most because of the fun colors. I was very entertained at mixing the colors. After the project I continued to mess around with different colors.
3. All my life I assumed the primary colors were simply red, blue, and yellow. The actual colors and there names are yellow, cyan, and magenta. I thought this was very interesting.
4.The difference in all of the colors was truly important. You need just the right amount of each color to get the color you are looking for. There are bug difference in colors which is why they have certain names. I thought the video was very helpful when making my color wheel and provided me with very useful information.

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This project was a fun way to better understand the elements and principles of art. I did my best to compare different works around my house with those that were matched with the elements and principles in the book. I am not a photographer but I tried my best to use photos that met the requirements the best. This was a pretty fun project!

Color and Emotions

1.For years, artists have continued to treat and use color very carefully. Color is very unpredictable and dominant that it can play with your emotions. Color is very difficult to control and is said to be so powerful, that it can 'even jaunt your dreams'. Colors are usually coordinated with feelings. for example, red is usually a form of madness. The painting should have reasons, because reason releases emotion.

 

2. Personally, I think its fascinating  to see how many colors are actually put into one painting. The building that June painted in the video had blue, orange, pink, red, and even yellow. Before this video, I would have looked at a building and say it was just simply brown.

 

3. In regards to color, the way that it effects our emotions has made an impact on myself. Artists will recreate paintings if they feel the color is not right for the emotions that they are attempting to portray.

 

4. In the Feelings video, I realized that paintings are just that, paint. The way artists use the color creates the emotions of the figures he is creating. The way he uses dark colors around peoples eyes makes them portrayed more as evil, and the pink rosy cheeks shows innocence. I never really looked at art that way. 

Videos and CNN article

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• Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts
• Aesthetics "is the philosophical study of beauty and art."
• We portray art as simply, 'art', however it is the beauty that makes it art.
• CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics
• Art is seen through symbols and artifacts for intersubjective communications, but it is not verbal.
• What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
• Art is said to come from some sort of objective. When our brains see a familiar object, we make a random interpretation of the piece of work.
• Our brain finds faces in art

2. I think that Plato's theory on art and Aesthetics is most important. He had once said in the 4th century B.C., "There is a beauty in which all things are beautiful." He had thoughts that ideas can only be grasped by reasoning and 'beauty presents itself through beauty. He would make arguments that something beautiful will attract attention. Art usually attracts a great amount of attention.

3. To be honest, I think that Changeux and Ramachandran have thought of art and aesthetics as way to much science. Yes looking at art involves neuroscience, but it is all opinionated. People either like art or they don't. They're ideas take away from that. I thought it was interesting that Ramachandran said that all art is exaggerated to the most extent to please the human brain. Changeux stated that art is a search for harmony. He says art is made with different parts to create a whole.

4. The videos articles and text all relate in the theory behind the philosophy of aesthetics. Beauty has a lot of meaning when it comes to art.

5. The article and the videos were kind of boring to me. However, they did help me better understand the text. I personally can learn better when I can hear the lecture as well as see it.