We have been working with colour pastel as of late and I thought today we would get away from realism and have some fun with representing emotion via colour, proportion, and style.
Did you know that there is Color Meaning? Yep, different cultures throughout history, and today have built up codification of meaning from colours and emotions… ‘Are you Feeling blue?’, ‘I was red hot’ or ‘feeling old and gray’
I found this on a website:
Each emotion has a color associated with it and vice-versa. It is seen a lot in poetry. The emotions and colors have become associated by time and tradition. The roots of this phenomenon seem to be in Hinduism, and the belief that the color of a person’s aura refects his emotions at a certain time.
(Don’t hold me to this, I have not studied the origins of the connection between color and emotion. I have only made deductions from what I do know).
The color – emotion relations are:
- Pink – Happiness
- Rose – Compassion
- Light Red – Love
- Red – Lust
- Dark Red – Hate
- Bright Orange – Curiosity
- Orange – Psychosis
- Dark Orange – Suspicion
- Brown – Illness
- Light Yellow – Cowardice
- Yellow – Fear
- Dark Yellow – Bravery
- Light Green – Envy
- Green – Greed
- Dark Green – Jealousy (Muddy green)
- Turquoise – Serenity
- Light Blue – Sadness
- Blue – Melancholy
- Dark Blue – Depression
- Lavender – Passion
- Violet – Anger
- Purple – Rage
- White – Purity
- Gray – Confusion
- Black – Corruption / Death
- Gold – Spirituality (the highest form attainable by humans)
- Silver – Magical / Spirituality, but lower than Gold
In poetry, you will find mostly just the major colors, and with their most obvious connotations (White – purity, black – death, red – love, blue – sadness, green – jealousy, yellow- fear, brown – illness and purple – anger).
The colors stand for many things, whereas I have written only the main emotion. For example, yellow is also associated with intelligence, and blue is also associated with honesty, worry and spirituality.
[http://everything2.com/title/Colors+of+emotions]
And this as well:
Plutchik The Plutchik Emotion Circumplex And The 8 Primary Bipolar Emotions
So what are we going to be doing??? Take a look below and lets talk about what we see.
Now get a BIG piece of white paper, think about an EMOTION you want to describe via a portrait… Don’t worry about Facial Proportion or Realism. We know there is more to art and communication then realism tells us!