what is color in art? How does art portray emotions?

In my own house I have flashcards of colors that have each purpose for each color. For example the color red is to get focused and color blue is to be inspired. I had no idea each color had a significant meaning. I thought color was just simply colors. Well, in this video I learned colors actually express meaning,

            In the beginning it opens up as a painter struggles on how to create her masterpiece or her artwork. I never knew painting was this difficult. I thought anybody who had a certain skill can easily paint. I had experience with watercolor before but that is such a simplified art than an artist trying to express her emotions through painting.

            Colors show different kinds of emotions and are difficult to control. For example, in Venice the artist was talking about how the sea color, the light that hit the water was fascinating in Venice.  Colors aren’t easily made as you think. You need to gather natural resources in order to make a specific color. For example the color, my favorite this rich blue color called ultramarine is the richest blue from Afghanistan.  It was used specifically for a virgin’s cloak in paintings.

            The artist in the color video had this main idea “keeping the whole thing going, keeping the painting moving from all different types of places.” The most fascinating thing I learned about this artist is there was no specific point where she started. She started to paint all different sides and all over the place but came to a point, a common point where the painting fit together. It was really neat how she used bright colors to show some kind of mysterious and how the buildings float on top of the water. It was a total different image that I had about how artists actually paint.

            In the emotions video it shows how most artists emphasize some kind of religious meaning towards paintings. For example the war between heaven and hell, and some famous paintings have angels or some kind of angelic glowing like the Mona Lisa painting. What actually hit me and was really interesting were the paintings of Goya. It was a different point of view and how he came about through painting was much different than most paintings that I know.

            Goya’s painting draws the worst of us. He uses body movement, gestures and facial expressions to show the emotion of paints and how he wants us to be free. Goya’s paintings have this kind of uncomfortable, unasked and the unwanted side of humans.

            What amazed me in the video clips were, paintings can actually show different types of symbolisms. For example, there can be expressions of politics and human psychology. All different types of time periods portrayed different views of God. For example the Medieval world equals God, Renaissance world equals humanity and God and the Enlightenment world equals humanity instead of God. Of coarse Goya’s period, he expressed God in his own terms. There were no afterlife and Hell is something that we create.