Color Scale

Color Scale is an common presentation for statistics data. It is an useful tool in the term of color category and the visual appeal.


The nutrient chart uses monochrome color to identify the gradual change among the years by light blue to dark blue.

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The climate chart uses complement color to show the weather change.
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The color scale applies to the data successfully because we view the pleasant logical change of color. The data also can use the color to distinguish information. For example, the darker color may represent danger zone or heavier weight, and light color stand for safety zone or lighter weight.

Color Wheel

We are able to see the color wheel in our daily life.

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Left hand ferry wheel represented the gradual changing color by light. The glamorous color shined enchanting which also brightened the dull dark night. Right hand ferry used the cable car to display the color.

The wind wheel characterized its fan as the color wheel. I can imagine that it will spin the color magically into a rainbow. http://www.lawnornamentsandfountains.com/productimages/07smc/33333-b.gif

I also see other merchandise using the color wheel to illustrate their products. Society likes to use color wheel to demonstrate the object because the various color give viewer the vivid vision and impressive image. The primary color also support the product easily to categories into different parts, for example, the bigger points showed in primary color in a "gambling win a spin."

From the following examples I learned that painting medium such as acylic is not the only tool to create color wheel. In addition, while studying the color in color wheel, I alsorealized that I didn't only learn the color theory academically. The color wheel also apply in society to lighten our heart visionary.

Color Context

Orange is the color of sun, and the meaning of warmth. The Hershey's Reese's is the chocolate contain peanut butter, which is interesting that they didn't use brown to present product's image. This logo use slightly yellow, yellow is the second alarming color beside red. Therefore, the color grabs viewers' attentions. As a sunny orange represent the chocolate, customers get the imagination of melting. The chocolate is melting in our mouth, it warm our heart and we taste the happiness.

Most girls like pink, this color reflects their energy and youth. This light pink baby lotion emphasize on woman's tender femininity. This pink color is gentle, which imply that the lotion is soft as this baby pink, and our skin can easily absorb it with a gentle touch. The baby lotion is smooth, this color also fit with the product's smoothness, although the lotion is white in fact. The baby blue label color mentioned that lotion is liquid. The choice of this pink color pleased customers with imaginary satisfaction.

Both color promote the products' image successfully. Even though the color doesn't attach to the products' original color.

Conceptual Art Activity

Everyone draw a different line on a sheet of paper and put them together. When the whole piece finished, I was so surprised seeing that all the random shape form into a organized, logical and order piece. It is way beyond my expectation to see the result, because originally I thought it just wouldn’t connect together during the process. Organized and ordered piece could be developed by disorder random thing.

Performing Art

Instructions:
Two participants bounce the ball without looking at it, and go around within a circle.

The Response:
Originally I was thinking about an idea that how people can involved within the space. Are we living in space or are we dominating the space? During the time Lindsey and Pavlos performed my assignment, I observed the new thing which is the speed of bouncing ball, performers walking in circle and space dimension work cooperatively together.

Cortlandt’s project:
It’s a fun activity that traces my hand and Lindsay’s hand with closing eyes. I accidentally try to stab Lindsay’s land for finding her hand without thinking.

Tyson’s project:
It’s hard to tie a knot with one hand. I wouldn’t thinking myself as a string to tie a knot.

Gutai

The Gutai group was an artistic movement and association of artists founded Jiro Yoshihara. It considered to be akin to Abstract Expressionism, were pioneers of later directions in art such as "Happening" performance art, "Environmental Art" and “Conceptual Art”. In 1955, an artist Murakami created his reportedly stunning performance Laceration of Paper, in which he ran through a paper screen. (Image)

By studying Gutai’s art achievement, it offers me a unique perspective on the international dynamics of postwar. It also gives audiences a fascination with the beauty that arises when things become damaged or decayed. The process of damage or destruction is celebrated as a way of revealing the inner "life" of a given material or object.

It would be fun to witness any performing artist’s work at the frist place to see their development.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutai_group
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Kaprow

In this shadow activity, we need to be silent and use rock to communicate. One person follows leader’s shadow, and if you stepped out of the shadow, we make a noise by hitting the two rocks. I had a hard time to follow Kayla’s shadow; she skipped, jumped, and made several sudden movements then I was totally out of the track. Sometime I even forgot to the hit the rock. This assignment makes me understand more about performing art when I involved to it. Art could be a silent communication to connect artist and audiences.

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