Psychodynamic Responding to Colors
Colors depress, stimulate, excite, tranquilize, increase appetite, and can create the sensation of coolness or warmth. A viewer's reaction to color is sensuous. A viewer enjoys the colors through the artist's creativity in using the colors of a palette, by the effect of colors producing an overall visual interpretation. Human visual perception is the pathway that interprets a psychological response, as color is known to elicit psychodynamic response, or a response from the unconscious to conscious motivation. For instance, emotions are internal feelings that come to us without effort, desire, or intention. The viewer's emotions are drawn out through viewing colors. Usually red is exciting or warm; blue is cool and receding; and yellow is light and radiant. Pychodynamic responding was first associated with color by Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810).
Creating a composition or design from an idea for its significance is more in line with the idea to communicate something. Relating to the idea is responding to communication. Cool blues in the background draw attention to warm red tones in the foreground.
Works by Philipp Otto Runge.
Der Morgen (The Great Morning); Location: Hamburg, Germany - PD - 1923
Die Hulsenbeckschen Kinder; Location: Hamburg, Germany - PD - 1923
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