Research With Colour Theory

Research With Colour Theory

Artworks

Monochromatic

This is a Pablo Picasso painting the reason it is a 

Monochromatic piece is because of the excessive 

use of one colour in different tones and shades there

is some brown in there but it is mainly shades and 

tones of blue leaving a very miserable feeling to it you can see the man is depressed possibly busking defiantly a sense of loneliness.

This a self portrait on Van Gogh again it is a monochromatic piece with a very lonely feel with it it does have some complementary colours in it but it is more so monochromatic the rhythm flows through this piece beautifully leading your eye around the picture, the bit that stands out to me is his eyes they are very deep and meaningful and show a lot of feeling in this.

Cubism 

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century.

It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne.

In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Dada

Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.

This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.

Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.

The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical word.

Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language. Another theory says that the name "Dada" came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse'.

To me dada is the favorite son of Surrealism using many similar techniques but still driving forward as a movement of its own the movement is surrounded in history and many different famous names and is renowned for being so vibrant, obscure and just Dada.

Pointillism

Pointillism is an original form of art created by George Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from impressionism.

Pointillism is a bunch of tiny dots formed together to make a picture.

Why we use pointillism instead of using a paintbrush and just painting is because pointillism is brighter and the other kinds of paintings can be dull.

When two colors are next to each other, your eye mixes them and that is called optical mixing.

Using optical mixing instead of physically mixing can make a brighter picture.

Seurat’s “A Sunday in the Park” took him two years to complete covers a wall (81 inches by 120 inches) and has about 3,456,000 dots!

George Seurat

A Sunday in the Park

 

Pointillism is an original form of art created by George Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from impressionism.

Seurat’s “A Sunday in the Park” took him two years to complete covers a wall (81 inches by 120 inches) and has about 3,456,000 dots!

The Colours used in this a pale and calm, make the painting feel inviting as you would feel on a clam Sunday nm the park, families are playing and walking dogs.

I’d say the use of colour in this piece seem to be of the Triadic colour scheme although the piece is not that vibrant it uses a small range of colours in the triangular pattern from the colour wheel.

It is a famous art work and most people know it when shown it, its just a simple Sunday at the park, although some might say after looking closer at it, it may have some hidden meaning, of which personaly I don’t know.  Too me the painting makes me feel calm and relaxed and I think that is due to the use iof colours and the figures on the painting mimic this.

Georges Braque “Fauve”

Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882, in Argenteuil, Val-d'oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1899. In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in 1902. The next year, he attended the Académie Humbert, also in Paris, and painted there until 1904.

His earliest works were impressionistic, but after seeing the work exhibited by the artistic group known as the "Fauves" in 1905, Braque took on a Fauvist style. The Fauves, a group that included Henri Matisse and André Derain among others, used brilliant colors to represent emotional response.

Fauves are always very powerful pieces to me using strong contrasting colours and interesting shapes and forms.

The colour scheme for this to me seems to be triadic using Green, Purple and Orange mainly maybe a couple of blues and reds but fauves and triadic come hand in hand, considering when using triadic the pieces are very vibrant and stand out and this is what the fauve style is about.

The Piece here looks like a meadow going into a village somewhere remote very peaceful with depth of mountains and shrubbery in the foreground it is a part of the fauve style as it makes you feel at peace and calm although it has vibrant colours, they are set in a way that the eye flows around like the pathway in the center is orange and blue and being complementary so your eye is drawn to that area straight away and then the eye moves naturally around the work.

Otto Dix
He was a German artist, painter, print maker and water-colourist. His depictions of warfare and post-war Berlin shaped our impressions. Along with George Grosz, Dix was one of the more important figures in New Objectivity. While Grosz delved into the shadows of modern society, Dix stared into the abyss

Modern War: Dix was a veteran of the First World War. He was haunted by the brutality of warfare long after the war finished. Through his art, he returns to the derelict landscape of military trenches covered with mutilated bodies. The dead are distorted by decomposition. Human characteristics are unrecognizable in gas masks and steel helmets.

The Aftermath: His veterans are pitiful figures, disfigured by war and ignored by survivors. Those who profited live with abundance while the wounded rot in poverty. A blind veteran sells matches on the street as people ignore him, a uncomfortable reminder of humiliating defeat. Just one living thing acknowledges the veteran. It is a dog who urinates on his stumps that were once his legs.

The colour in his works vary in his earlier stuff it seems to be warm pallet dark a twisted and in his later stuff it’s a cooler pallet, the obvious meaning to the first picture is a derelict waste land and the second is a blind busker but in both a slightly hidden meaning is the personal feelings he has in both the fact that the war has effecting him emotionally and he can see what it has done to others and it shows in his works, there all very deranged and physically manipulated the first one does make me feel empowered against war and the second makes me feel sick for those who are injured veterans and have no help or family they’re both very relatable even if you haven’t been in war or known anybody in one it still makes you feel sympathy for the veterans and war victims.

Pablo Picasso

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

portrait of Suzanne Bloch is a painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, executed in Paris in 1904, towards the end of his blue period.

This  piece is easily recognizable as a monochromatic the colour used here is blue although in different shades, tints and  tones  it is very blue!  It’s just a portrait at first glance and maybe second glance I’m not sure if there is any abstract meaning behind this but it is beautifully painted the strokes are all very individual and interesting.  To me it seems like a miserable painting, its blue and calm and even the subject seems miserable its  beautifully crafted but misrible.

Tristan Tzara “Dada”

Tristan Tzara (whose birth name is Samuel Rosenstock was a Romanian and French poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement.

“The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of an art, but of a disgust” Tristan Tzara, From "Dada Manifesto" 1918

This piece has man sat at the front, disfigured as are many figures in this with a building in the background and some household objects with mannequins, but looking deeper into this picture it makes me think of religion and sex. The reasons for this are varied and I will list them.

1.     At the far back there is a body that looks as if it has been crucified.

2.     The figures in the foreground look as if they are praying and asking or forgiveness

3.     The objects on top of the building look like rockets and penis’

4.     The building has windows similar to churches

5.     The light to the right in the sky is a lot brighter than the rest of the sky, divine intervention

This piece is disturbing to me and I think that’s what they would have wanted, we are all wired to have some sort of feeling towards religion and sex so to use them both in one image will invoke reaction in the viewer.  The colours used in this I think are very important they are complementary, this piece use’s Yellow and Blue, on the colour wheel it would be Orange and Blue but Yellow works too. To me it works well and achieve what it wants and when it was done I can imagine it caused a wide range of emotions and responses which is what Dada is about.

Willem de Kooning

(April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam.

In the post World war 2 era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionist or Action painting, and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School.

In September 2011 de Kooning's work was honored with a large-scale retrospective exhibition:

de Kooning: A Retrospective

September 18 2011 – January 9 2012 at MoMA in New York City.

Organized by John Elderfield it was the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full extent and depth of de Kooning's career, containing nearly 200 works.

 The colour theory of this picture is to me Monochromatic or analogous. the reason i say monochromatic is because it is different shades, tints and tones of green or yellow and the reason i say its analogous is because its green, yellow and light orange which are all next to eachother on the colour wheel.

its a picture of a person abstracted and blured into the background its pretty simple and expresionate.


Urban

 

This is a stop sign! it is a octogan ith a red fill and white writting reading stop.
The reason for this is red is a hard colour representing danger so when seen you are more likley to take notice it and the word stop is in capitals. the colour red is a wark coulour with alot of emotional feelings attatched but for signs it is used for danger.






Here is a wall with graffiti on it. its a picture of a owl regurgitating plants and leafs.

the meaning for this could be the animals want there habbitat back and to take away the constructed world, the other thing is it could be just for looks. The colour scheme here is analogous using colours all next to each othe ron the cheel, but on the owl his eyes are orange and the owl itself is blue this is complementry so using a range of schemes can still work.

This is a flat image of a cup man and man in a wheelchair.
the meaning of this is to say in this direction there is a café a toilet and a disabled toilet or disabled acsess to the café.
the colour scheme is simple here whte symbols it could be classed as monochromatic as it is just on colour tint it can be used on any background and is always noticable and white is a bright tint and goes with anything.

This is another piece of graffiti and perhaps more well know done by our own bansky. not sure myself what it means but its a paint bucket on a angel so maybe just the fact that it is unauthadox is what he wanted to achive here. is simple one colour pink paint on a grey statue, giving the sceme of maybe warm, new and vibrant colour on a cool old background.

STREET SIGN!

arrow to the knee......

This is a round sign filled with blue and whit arrow in it.
the round shape is a flowing shape no sharpe edges or points to show soft and calm the colour is a calm and cool colour (blue by the way) showing there is no urgency and time to react with a white arrow again white can go on anything and is used as the direction given symbol.

Here is a yellow box wigth GRIT written on it. the box is yellow and in most cases dirty. yellow is a warm colour and stands out in most urban atmospheres so it can be found when snowy and icey it has been there for years and is a part of urban society uniteresting in design but important.