Colors and Gestalt Principles
“No two people see the rainbow the same way.”
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I have explored and learned a lot about the colors and it’s meaning. Why a particular color had such an importance in early age? and How every creature and nature adapt to these colors and How we as an individual perceive color? It has changed my perspective on colors.
A LITTLE PREVIEW — Below you will see all the explorations and Assignments for this module. New profound knowledge on colors and lots of theories behind every color. To know more scroll down below and Enjoy the colorful ride!
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This session started off by answering a Google form about colors and our first associations with them. The first question we were asked is ‘What is your one of the oldest memories that you strongly associate with color?’ and I answered ‘HOLI’ and made a visual representation of it.
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After playing Holi, my t-shirt would have this kind of splash patterns of colors.
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Fun Fact: Peacock Feather has no color! They have barbs and barbules, which disperse incident light causing coloration, i.e. we see different colors at different angles.
1. Color Wheel
To get a better understanding of colors, we were asked to make a color wheel from the objects we find in home. I had fun doing this exploration, below are some of them.
I was exploring with bangles and bottles and trying to collect the colors, scavenging out through waste and dirt!
In the meantime, I started collecting newspaper and thought of creating a color wheel tree out of the newspaper and glue mixture. It has a mystical look to it! The tree where — the existence of color began…(grin)
Final outcome of Scavenger Hunt!
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All the accessories I could find, head, ear, neck, hand…everything you can see in the color wheel below. Initially it was just an earring of each color. It didn’t give me the color wheel feeling. Hence, went all crazy with the accessories.
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Initially started with bottles, then handling caps was a lot easier than bottles.
After exploring through waste for different coloured objects. I tried something with coloured papers and origami!
1.1 Color Tints and Shades
This part I explored the tints and shades of each color and how they were discovered.
#1 Yellow
Fun Facts:
- First discovered in 17th century by Spanish conqueror Juan de Onate.
- The color became popular as William Shakespeare mentioned it in his plays, ‘A Midsummer Night’ and more. He also died of Yellow Fever.
#2 Green
Fun Facts:
- It’s pigments have been some of the most poisonous in history.
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele — Scheele’s Green bright green pigment laced with toxic chemical arsenic.
- Napoleon Bonaparte’s featured this color causing his death.
#3 Blue
Fun Facts:
- Egyptians unearthed Lapis lazuli, a stone found in Afghanistan about 6000 years ago.
- Associated with rich and divine, from the Virgin Mary.
#4 Black
Fun Facts:
- In ancient Egypt and Greece, the color represents the ‘Underworld’
- It is one of the first colors used in Neolithic Cave Paintings.
- Little Black Dress by Chanel, wore in Breakfast at Tiffany’s became wildly popular.
Some explorations
1.2 Color with Music
In, the sessions we were asked to explore the colors through the music. we watched a documentary on colors and music — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNoieAnzI&feature=youtu.be
I was fascinated by this approach. So I gave it a try myself.
2. Photographs in different Lights
We were asked to see the color variation in different light and note down the color difference. Therefore, I took my father and brother -in-law as my subjects to study the color of his shirt in different lights and different colored lights.
Time: 8AM
Difference in colors can be seen in these two pictures : Subject standing in the shade and in the Light.
2.1 Colored Lights
My Brother-in-law played with expressions as well while taking these pictures, so it brought a little drama to the pictures!
In most of the pictures, the grey(pewter) adapted to the color it was placed in.
2.2 Color Interchange
Changing the original color of the object, what did I perceive? Let’s find out!
3. Gestalt Principles
We were asked to click pictures nearby us and identify the principle we see. I was buying vegetables, so I took the opportunity and clicked pictures of the principles I was able to see around.
4. Color Video
Team Members (What Colors Do You See?)
- Bhavana Sharma(AD)
2. Kasturika Sonowal(SDM)
3. Kanhu Behera(TAD)
4. Shreeya Patil(NMD)
Process
Brainstorming Session
We all individually had a lot of Ideas and narrative. We all brought it on the table and discussed what may or may not work. We really had fun with building up the narratives.
We all narrowed it down to creating something of Analogous and Complementary Colors. We individually explored on those lines.
Self Explorations
I had this initial idea to create a video of colors related to nature and create a story. I came up with the idea to show pollution using complementary colors and textures.
Ideation Stage
We taught of taking abstract lines and black and white theme to convey our content of analogous and complementary colors by creating two sets of music and comparing them.
Here are some of the Ideations we did to create the frames in the video and the sounds I created.
Final Outcome
The video shows the concept of Analogous and Complementary color theory by using the set of music and the interpretation of the music would connect you to some colors.
Stage 1: Introducing lines, abstract figures and sounds in one frame. Splash of Analogous colors at the end of the frame.
Stage 2: Introducing lines, abstract figures and sounds in second frame. Splash of Analogous colors at the end of the frame.
Stage 3: Combining the two frames to create contrast. Hence, Complementary.
Enjoy the Video. Let us know What Colors do you see?
