This image reminds me of Jenna's project quite a bit. Even though this image focuses upon one particular city, it is coordinated by color. Color makes up so many different things in the world and can define many different aspects of the fine details. Within the world, there are often many correlations with color and location. For instance, people will typically think of blues, purples and greens, cool colors when the ocean or regions such as Antarctica or Alaska are discussed. When areas such as Spain, Mexico or Africa are talked about, the colors of red, orange and yellow may be associated. Is this because of the geographical region and location they are in? Or is this an association that society has created because of different landmarks and the surroundings of physical beauty?
Considering many generalizations are made about particular areas and regions, it would be an interesting idea to break those generalizations down into further details. Besides natural landmarks, plants and water, there are many other elements that can correlate a color with a particular area. Things like country symbols, animals and fashion trends could also speak a lot to bring more ideas of a journey around the world. Specifically looking at the finer details in regions would also show more about travel, along with the idea of a visual journey.
That is a great picture Kim. There are many aspects to travel. There are the structures, the culture, climate, habitat, etc. So far, Jenna has been focusing on structures while using the color wheel theme to add aesthetic appeal. It would be a good idea to implement other things into the scenery. I found this video that is one of the most amazing scenes I have ever seen created in front of me.
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^This project is incredibly tedious, but they do a great job in combining objects seamlessly into 1 scene. I encourage Jenna to work with more depth in her work, it looks like she is doing that with her 2nd project. Now I would like to see some subtle motion.
I really like the picture you chose for your blog entry. I agree that it does relate to Jenna's project a lot. I also like how you related certain colors with different climates around the world. This is something I have never really thought about but it is something that I too do without realizing it. This makes me wonder if that is how certain colors have certain feelings attached to them. As in blues and cool colors are relaxing and soft, much like how people feel at the beach and vacation places that are located on water. Compared to places with high amounts of activity, like spain, where the color are reds and oranges. Where those color make people feel high energy and movement. I feel as if that relates color and travel even more together, and possibly maybe the origin of where color and feelings started.
ReplyDeleteYour blog entry really made me think of how interesting it would be if someone took all of the associations, or if you will, the stereotypes that we make with geography and color and mix them up. What effect would it have on our perception of certain societies or geographical regions if we used a color that was not associated with them? Depicting Asia as being blue or Ireland as red would seem really odd, I think that something interesting could come from this shift in color perception.
ReplyDeleteGood point about thinking about the country symbols, etc. Because instead of just a visual journey of landscape, there would be more information on the specific regions that are shown. This idea could be a great learning tool in the school system. I could see myself doing a cross-curriculum assignment using the colors of a country's symbols in one of my future art classes.
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