1. Informational, Psychological /Symbolic COLOR

2. Example: Road Signs. RED Stop Sign. Message: Halt! Watch out! Informational Color Color imbued with meaning, used to convey a direct message

3. What’s the impact of this color change?

4. Example: White Wedding Dress has emotional weight = chastity purity, innocence. Psychological Color Color that elicits some kind of emotional response from the person experiencing it.

5. What’s the impact of this color change?

6. Color Symbols: affected by culture, society, smaller communities, family etc.

7. The Psychology of Color For human beings, color is both a physical & emotional experience Claude Monet

8. Color & Light = Life/ Memories/ Sense of Place Claude Monet

9. Color & our Senses: Color can be associated with music, sound, taste, & touch… triggering physiological responses.

10. What Psychological / Symbolic significance do the colors play in William Blake’s painting below?

11. Colors can be the vehicle for conveying or emphasizing a symbolic THEME &/or provoking a psychological effect on an artwork or environment William Blake’s The Good and Evil Angels from 1805 conveys the theme of “Good and Evil.” The colors provoke a strong emotional trigger for those concepts. The Red-Orange Angel is depicted as possessed, firey & aggressive, while the Pale, White Angel is innocent & cautiously wise.

12. Color Psychology is a field of study devoted to analyzing the effect of color on human behavior and feeling Reds & Oranges = "warm" colors…It's claimed that red hues increase bodily tension and stimulate the nervous system Blues & Greens = "cool" colors... It’s claimed that "cool" hues being passive hues, release tension

13. but sometimes conflicting studies One study found weight lifters to have more powerful performances in blue rooms. Another study found that babies cry more frequently in yellow rooms. Still another study used Baker-Miller Pink or "pepto bismol pink" to calm prisoners. (by Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., of the American Institute for Biosocial Research, cited on [Color Matters: pink])Color Matters: pink

14. Chromotherapy: color therapy Color Halls for healing: 2500 years ago in ancient Egypt & China Color therapy: classified as a “vibrational healing modality” to balance, mental, spiritual, physical instabilities Applies visible light, electromagnetic energy— 7 spectral hues Considered “alternative medicine” “pseudo-scientific”

15. The 7 Chakras: Each color relates to a different energy source within the body. Each color is reflected in the 7 spectral hues, visible waves of light.

17. Which Chakra do you identify with most clearly? This is your strongest Color energy. The others may be weaker, areas needing attention…

18. Light Therapy, Chakra Test, Auras http://www.reiki-for-holistic-health.com/human-body-energy- centers.html http://www.reiki-for-holistic-health.com/human-body-energy- centers.html http://www.chakraenergy.com/test.html http://www.esolibris.com/articles/auras_chakras/aura_color.php

19. JAMES TURRELL’s PBS art:21 interview http://video.pbs.org/video/1237561674