THE PROJECT IN A FEW WORDS
The Project
The Concept
The Stream is the visual representation of the link between emotions and colors. The artwork intends to explore the concepts of emotion and identity in a fluid and rapidly changing reality, an interconnected world in which the use of technology creates a kind of new digital identity, a different way of socializing and representing oneself towards others. Identity understood as memory of the emotional experiences that reveal who we are, our emotions in our memories. Choosing a meaningful image and a color expressing our emotion makes the interaction with the artwork a process of meditation on our own emotional condition.
REFERENCE MODELS
PLUTCHIK and the Psycho-evolutionary theory of emotions (1958)
The basic assumptions of the Plutchik model, is well exposed in the “Psychology and Emotion Biology” (1995).
Plutchik defines a set of 8 primary emotions: “Joy,” “Trust,” “Fear,” “Estonishment” “Sadness,” “Disgust,” “Anger,” “Curiosity”
The set of 8 basic emotions is extented till 24 emotions dipending on the intensity of any single emotion.
Visual representation of 24 emotions model
Read more: Robert Plutchik
KANDINSKY and the colors and emotion – The spiritual in the art (1910)
According to Kandinsky, a color can be hot or cold, light or dark and has 4 main sounds: warm-light, warm-dark, cold-light, cold-dark. You can also add multiple other shades or “movements” as a color can be centrifuged and then get out of the canvas, as well as centripetal, thus inducing emotions of introspection. And then still motionless so suggesting a sense of stability, against the instability of other colors. Hence our associations of color and emotion, brought to the model of Plutchick, are born.
Reference table of colore-emotion association:
Read more: Wassily Kandisky