Color and it's Effects

Color is light reflecting off objects and either back to our eyes or absorbed.  There are many different properties of color and expressive qualities as well.  Color promotes emotional responses from people. Artists use it as a way to direct the viewer in a way he or she wants then to feel when looking at a painting. I found that the optical effects of color are very interesting to me.  Certain combinations of colors can "play tricks" on your eyes. Simultaneous Contrast allows colors to appear more intense if they are near each other. Staring at a painting or drawing for a long time can make the receptors in your eyes tired, leaving an outline of that painting or drawing still appear in your mind.  I found that the use of color in Titlan's Assumpion of the Virgin Painting interesting.  Ultramarine, meaning "beyond the sea" was a stone very expensive.  It was imported from Afganistan.  This stone revealed the most intense blue in nature.  Titlan reserved it for the Virgin's cloak in his painting. Vincent Van Gogh used strong/ bold colors to express strong emotional reaction from viewers.  In the feelings video, Art normally shows civilizations changing, it does not change civilizations.  Jacques-Louis David's painting did in a way.  He made paintings during the French Revolution that reflected political action.  The shapes he used in his paintings defined emotions and feelings.  I think this made a big impact on me that art can be that strong to people to transform the French Revolution.