Complementary color

the Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts in the Beck Collection; its original location is in France. The piece is oil on canvas, and it can only be viewed from the front because its hanging on a wall. The style of the piece is Fauves; Fauvist use bright colors in their purest and strongest states, which is very graphic in this particular piece. The title of the painting comes from the curving road that passes through the painting. The use of fauvism and the rareness of the painting made this art work a…

this class I really didn’t give are much thought but now I have come to learn and appreciate that are is not only pretty pictures or statues. There are different reasons and uses for pieces of art, intended by the artist. Artists use many different colors, textures and techniques to reach their different audiences. Along with materials and objects, space and time period also influence art. No matter what the artist portrays, the audiences perceive it and appreciate it in different ways. Earlier…

The Hallucinogenic Toreador is an oil painting done by Salvador Dali in-between 1968-70. It seems to be an attempt to help show his viewers the way he sees things. It is hard to discern whether or not the work is a tragic, or celebratory painting. The painting is a very ambitious, and a complex double image where the face of a bullfighter is implanted into Venus de Milo figurines. Dali put a lot of work into this painting as with a lot of his other works, but this one especially is very unique…

important to know whether color and location affect a person’s decision to take the product or not. Previous studies have looked at the effect that color and location has had on the taking behavior of people. Saito (1996) found that the geographical location and cultural proximity are possible factors for color preference. The study was done in Asian countries with university students. They were asked to rate their three most and least liked colors from a neutral color palette holding various…

Early on in a relationship it is often very hard to determine if you've met your ideal match and if the person you are dating is actually your soulmate. However, there are certain signs that let you know almost right away whether the one you are dating is your perfect partner. 1) You are fully comfortable and relaxed with this person, as if you've known him/her for a long time. Soulmates often have a "feeling like they already knew each other" before they even met. According to esoteric…

The Love Chase is arguably the most notable collections at the Crocker Art Museum. The grand display dominates a whole wall. The color palette is completely different the usual swarthy choice-hues of the nineteenth century. Both of Nahl’s paintings seem to sparkle; the texture of the dried paint is shiny and practically glistens under the dim light of the display room. Nahl’s two…

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What’s your favorite color? Mine is blue. I wear blue clothes everyday, my room was painted blue, and somehow, this particular hue of light, knows everything about me. Based on, Your Personality Color by Judy Scott-Kemmis, it says I “appear to be confident”, I am “genuine and sincere”, and I “am a rescuer”, which are all spot on. The rest of the facts that are not-so great also apply; “vulnerable side”, “worry about every little thing”, and “rigid”. If there was one color to describe my…

Germany. Expressionist artists turned to bright colors and distorted subjects to show emotions through their art. Wildings painting display many characteristics of expressionism, first being the distorting reality of the tree trunk in her photo. This is no regular tree trunk, but instead what appears to be the form of a women's body. Wilding also uses arbitrary colors to focus her viewer on the vivid red color of the leaves on the tree, even though this color has no natural relation to it. By…

some of the figures are abstract, they are all representational and are recognizable. The dominant style used in this painting is that of Fauvism. As seen in many of his other works, Derain painted the trees a natural green color and painted the rest of the objects in colors that were unrealistic. In this painting, there are several notable…