Basics and Process
- Science of perception-
- No color exists independent of eachother
- Color is affected by everything around it
- First thing to look for-
- “In painting the first thing is to look for the general impression of color”— Jean-Leon Gerome
- Benefits of working outside
- Truer color
- Better grasp of atmosphere
- Maintains freshness
- Example: A FIsh Sale on a Cornish Beach by Alexander Forbes
- Hudson River school
- Paintings seem to glow
- Increase pigmentation
- Focus on mood
- Example: The Andes of Ecuador by Asher Brown Durand
- Symbolist Painters Dreamlike quality
- Used color and light to stir imagination
- Displayed ideals of beauty mixed with obsession
- Reaction to mundane realism
- Framed glowing center with darker cooler values
- Example:
- Magazine Illustration
- Full palette
- Often red green pallette
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