Report: Perceptions through light and colour

Working title: Telling stories through light and colour or Perceptions through light and colour. 

Gregory Crewdson

The drive behind this report is understanding how light and colour reacts with each other and the world around us. How we previse these colours everyday and the emotional impact it has on us. Artists use colour to show moods and emotions or draw the eye towards a focal point or use of light to dramatically change the story been told within a scene. The Gregory Crewdson photograph above is of a normal family evening but through the lighting a more sinister story is been told or even just put into question.

This project will be exploring how light and colour in different spaces can have instinctual psychological effects on us, as well as the science behind light and colour and how artists manipulate this to express these emotions upon us within their own works.

The outcome of this research will then be reflected upon onto my own work within a 3D environment. This can be applied so environmental events such as specular refection from light bouncing when applied can create a more believable and atmospheric scene or can go further to allow me to have a more deeper psychological impact.

Notes – Don’t want to get into philosophy…more psychological.

Finding it hard to find a book just on the emotional impact of light and colour…more colour science, theory and philosophy.

Books im reading at moment – 

Light and colour in nature and art (Williamson and Cummins)

Colour (Zelanski and Fisher)

Understanding colour (Linda Holtzschue)

Colour perception (Mausfeld and Heyer)

Kandinsky’s teaching at the Bauhaus (Clark V. Poling)

Gregory Credson's twilight

Poetics of space (Gaston Bachelard)
Practical light and colour (Jeremy Vickery) (DVD)