How are you feeling?
Scroll down and look at this orange painting:
Orange: Shinjuku by Eleanor Harwood on zatista.com
OK…now how are you feeling?
You know your own emotion when you see a piece of art – you know how it makes you feel. This reaction is due in part to individual variables such as personal association 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.
There is a direct connection between the brain and the body, and reactions to color take place independently of thought or deliberation. – Faber Birren
Green: Wolverine's Mother by Diane Walker-Gladney on zatista.com
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).
Blue: Where the Whales Play 1 by Konnie Kim on zatista.com
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.
Red: Bridges by Sarah Lapp on zatista.com
Or, perhaps you are looking for a gift that reflects the personality of the person you are giving it to.
Yellow: Daffodill-2 by Nina Fuller
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.
Violet: The Alley, From the Series by Danielle Shenise on Zatista.com
Color obviously affects the artist as deeply as the viewer.
Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment. – Claude Monet
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As a Listed American Artist Known for texture and color. I consider my audience when constructing my works. I try to create a stasis . We as Artists need to give a little bit of everything a painting should be as disturbing as pleasing to leave an impression that will stay with our viewer.
I like for my audience to contemplate my works long after they have departed the actual viewing.
Dennis Akervik Coelho
American Progressivist
Daffodill-2 by Nina Fuller is amazing.
Yellow always makes me happy – maybe because of its relation to the sun.
Though I can’t say why my own work does not reflect that love.
Brown, Red & Green are my favorite colors to create with.
Got to love the melancholic ones 🙂
Michelle.