Colour has considerable impacts on human emotions. The relationships between colour and emotion have long been of interest to both artists and scientists.
Colour emotion is the relationships between colour and the viewer's psychological response. ie. "that's a very warm colour", "how exciting the colour feels", "the colour feels heavy" or "the colour makes me feel tense".
This seascape seems rather cold and
aloof.
The feelings coming from a beautiful sunset filled with pale pinks and golds will be vastly different to a black and white version of the same photo.
In his early twenties, Pablo Picasso tinted his paintings a pale, cold blue. For three years (1901-1904), he paints as if he is viewing the world through blue glasses. This is known as his "Blue Period".
These paintings portray destitute human beings. Blue was chosen deliberately — deep and cold, signifying misery and despair — to intensify the hopelessness of the figures depicted, such as beggars, prostitutes, the blind, out-of-work actors and circus folk, as well as Picasso himself and his penniless friends. If the colour is changed, such as if 'normal' colours were used, these paintings would have a completely different feel.
A study was conducted recently (2005) to investigate how cultures influence the viewers’ emotional responses to single colours and to colour pairs. A psychophysical experiment was carried out in 6 countries: Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. A total of 20 single colours and 190 colour pairs were used as the stimuli, presented individually on a calibrated cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitor in a darkened room at each experimental site. Four scales, “warm-cool”, “heavy-light”, “active-passive” and “like-dislike”, were used in the experiment to measure colour semantics and preference using the method of categorical judgement.
The results show that there was little cultural effect on all the scales except “like-dislike”. The Spanish data were found to disagree with the other 5 observer groups on “like-dislike”. The experimental results show that the Spanish observers tended to prefer colour pairs with small lightness difference between constituent colours in each pair, while the other 5 groups tended to prefer colour pairs with large lightness difference.
The definition of colour harmony is “when two or more colours seen in neighbouring areas produce a pleasing effect, they are said to produce a colour harmony.”
Existing colour harmony theories can be categorized into several "principles":
~Equal hue - Colours harmonize if they are of the same hue.
~Equal chroma - Colours harmonize if they are of the same chroma.
~Complementary hues - Colours harmonize if they are complementary in hue.
This seascape seems rather cold and
aloof.
In his early twenties, Pablo Picasso tinted his paintings a pale, cold blue. For three years (1901-1904), he paints as if he is viewing the world through blue glasses. This is known as his "Blue Period".
These paintings portray destitute human beings. Blue was chosen deliberately — deep and cold, signifying misery and despair — to intensify the hopelessness of the figures depicted, such as beggars, prostitutes, the blind, out-of-work actors and circus folk, as well as Picasso himself and his penniless friends. If the colour is changed, such as if 'normal' colours were used, these paintings would have a completely different feel.
A study was conducted recently (2005) to investigate how cultures influence the viewers’ emotional responses to single colours and to colour pairs. A psychophysical experiment was carried out in 6 countries: Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. A total of 20 single colours and 190 colour pairs were used as the stimuli, presented individually on a calibrated cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitor in a darkened room at each experimental site. Four scales, “warm-cool”, “heavy-light”, “active-passive” and “like-dislike”, were used in the experiment to measure colour semantics and preference using the method of categorical judgement.
The results show that there was little cultural effect on all the scales except “like-dislike”. The Spanish data were found to disagree with the other 5 observer groups on “like-dislike”. The experimental results show that the Spanish observers tended to prefer colour pairs with small lightness difference between constituent colours in each pair, while the other 5 groups tended to prefer colour pairs with large lightness difference.
The definition of colour harmony is “when two or more colours seen in neighbouring areas produce a pleasing effect, they are said to produce a colour harmony.”
Existing colour harmony theories can be categorized into several "principles":
~Equal hue - Colours harmonize if they are of the same hue.
~Equal chroma - Colours harmonize if they are of the same chroma.
~Complementary hues - Colours harmonize if they are complementary in hue.
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