{"id":11315,"date":"2012-05-30T02:18:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2012-05-30T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:18:32","slug":"color-art-moods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.co.nz\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/color-art-moods\/","title":{"rendered":"Color in Art and Moods"},"content":{"rendered":"

How are you feeling?<\/p>\n

Scroll down and look at this orange painting:<\/p>\n

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Orange: Shinjuku by Eleanor Harwood on zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

OK\u2026now how are you feeling?<\/p>\n

You know your own emotion when you see a piece of art \u2013 you know how it makes you feel. This reaction is due in part to individual variables such as personal association<\/a> and experience as well as culture. Although artistic response is uniquely your own, consistent similarities have been found from person to person in how colour affects emotions.<\/p>\n

There is a direct connection between the brain and the body, and reactions to color take place independently of thought or deliberation. \u2013 Faber Birren<\/p>\n

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Green: Wolverine's Mother by Diane Walker-Gladney on zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Research results have been utilized in numerous fields, from education (to determine which colors to paint specific areas of a school to promote learning in one area and relaxation in another), to finance (banks are traditionally grey and blue to inspire security and strength), to marketing and health (more on this in a future post).<\/p>\n

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Blue: Where the Whales Play 1 by Konnie Kim on zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe you want a certain room in your home to have a particular feeling? Apparently 34% fewer people jumped off of the Blackfriars Bridge in London after it was painted green from black.<\/p>\n

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Red: Bridges by Sarah Lapp on zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Or, perhaps you are looking for a gift that reflects the personality of the person you are giving it to.<\/p>\n

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Yellow: Daffodill-2 by Nina Fuller<\/p><\/div>\n

Try this: browse the Zatista original art collections by color. Look through the viewfinder of color for this particular moment and see what you discover.<\/p>\n

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Violet: The Alley, From the Series by Danielle Shenise on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Color obviously affects the artist as deeply as the viewer.<\/p>\n

Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment. \u2013 Claude Monet<\/p>\n

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