Food Color Memory and Names- A Linguistic Vantage

We name colors of foods with great ease. This process is conventionalized through our cultures and our biological dictates. People identify food colors through words that are again highly constrained. Embodiment of experience and perception deals with these constraints to make color term use a cognitively economical mechanism, keeping numbers of concepts in mind through categorial conceptualization in long term memory. The parallel process that puts together our linguistic and visual information, allows the individual to map a correspondence between the two frames. The result of this mapping is a ＂cognitive color＂ in long term color memory. This paper presents an experiment in triggering long term memory and the response results. The objective was to verify whether individuals＇ cognitive color of well known foods, both raw and cooked, that they had just identified with Natural Color System （NCS） color samples, would be predominantly a primary basic color term, a secondary basic color term, or a complete descriptive utterance. The name used to communicate a desired signification is accessed through the judgement of similarity and difference with a point of reference. In this case, the food color vantage represents the cognitive color remembered.

荒诞世界的冷峻底色——刘健动画电影的美学突破

刘健的现实主义动画在欧洲各大动画电影节上广受赞誉,但在国内票房和观众接纳度上却不乐观,甚至遭遇传统观众和学派导演的质疑。目前学界对于刘健动画电影的研究较少,且侧重于题材与叙事结构的角度,对于动画形式对现实题材和高具象场景的艺术加工缺乏关注。本文从用色风格、绘画风格、光影构图与剪辑风格角度分析刘健是如何纯熟运用动画的表现形式,完成对于现实的还原与重构,通过动画语言建构现实主义叙事,在对严肃主题不损“痛感”地表达的同时真正实现了动画电影的成人化与“动画性”。