Week Five

 Blog Five 

    This week in class we talked about how Cultures Influence Color. First, we defined culture and explored different cultures. Culture is the social forms of a racial, religious, or a group that shares similar life path. Color is a huge symbol to background and experiences. It is important when talking about color to think about age, studies have shown that babies cry more in bright, yellow-colored rooms and couples fight more in bright yellow rooms. 

Babies and children respond better to bright contrasting colors, it can affect they concentration or eye strain so it's important to take that into consideration. Youth ages are so influenced by social. Adults are very contrasting to their parents, running away from the colors their parents picked. Boomers are more active than the age before them and work longer. They tend to pick colors that their parents would have picked. 

Gender also has a huge impact on color, in today's age they tend to run away from the typical blue for boy and pink for girls. They are going more the route of untraditional colors, running away from the "typical". The culture of climate also has an impact on color. They use geographical colors to match their lifestyle. The culture of location also has a huge impact, people used to stay in the community they were born in and now it is much more normal to go across the county for school or a job. 

    The culture of technology has had a huge impact on the world as well, Gen Z is a part of the generation that hasn't ever known a time without technology and socials. Social media has also had an impact on color, such as influencers. Red outperformed green in a study done about colors on socials. 

    We also talked about different trends throughout history. There have been many historical cultural effects on color and what is trending. Economy, language, and food all effect color. The 19th Century was full of navy, brown, and a muted purple plum color. The roaring colors was full of bright flapper colors. A strong influence came from the Chinese. The muted hues took over the great depression, coco brown, mustard yellow, deep dark plum, and grey. The baby boom took over brighter colors, olive, warm beige, and plum. The 50s were taken over with brighter colors, this is when dyes came out, orange, pasticcio, turquoise. The 60s was filled with bright hippie colors, tie dye, and rich shades like aqua. The 70s brought out bright earthy tones, with red, royal blue, acid green, and yellow. The 80s brought way a bright way and tones of bright naturals and shades of grey. The middle of the 90s brought forth creme and bright green, yellow. The Millenium brought bold accent shades, yellow, and the Tuscan shades, warm nesting hues. The late 2000s brought nudes, lots of grey and neutrals. They were seen as very easy to decorate around. The global pandemic brought lots of change to how people worked and lived. Homeowners started to bring forth lots of calming natural colors and focused on well-being. 

    I found this super intriguing, how the neutrals have tended to stick and last longer.  There always tend to be a neutral that sticks with lots of pops of color only staying trending for a couple years. Color is tending to be embraced and having fun with color. 

    In sketching interiors, we went over Perception of Spatial Relationships. In this chapter we learn the different terms that are used in a perspective drawing. As well as learning why, they are so important to know. Theres's horizon line, vanishing point, picture plane, ground line, and cone of vision. There are also different types of views, such as one-point perspective, two-point perspective, birds eye view, and Three- point perspective. It is also very important to have your proportions correct. One way to check is to use your pencil to measure what you are drawing.