COLOR TRANSFORMS MY HOLIDAY SPIRIT

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Our world is full of vibrant color that catches our attention and sparks our interest. It is a vivacious and animated way of speaking to its audience and lifting our spirits. Color dances with our eyes and creates a vision of beauty and spectacular momentum. Since color is so evident around us, I decided to bring up the most exciting time of year, Christmas. Edward Johnson created the first string of electric Christmas lights in 1890. The festive lighting during the Christmas season then  became a tradition for many Christian, and has even became such a recognizable and tacky way of celebrating the holidays.  Every year neighborhoods everywhere, as well as companies and businesses decided to celebrate the holidays with a little bit of color. Not only color but bright lights and traditional lit up figures like Santa Claus and his reindeer. According to Albers, a color theorist, color is always changing and playing tricks on our eyes. We look at color in relation to those color that are surrounded with it, and when it comes to Christmas the variety of colors that families and friends display on their houses each year has the ability to appear in all different shapes, sizes, and shades. The lights interact with the background, and each color as an influence on each other to untimely creates a stunning and impressive display of ones Christmas Spirit.  As Albers would say, its almost impossible to see color by itself. Because of such a long standing tradition now color is represented in a such a festive and elaborate way that melts our hearts and sparkles in our eyes.