Color Schemes: April 2014

Color Schemes

Stephen Martin

21 April 2014

Statement

Color is considered to be one of the most vital elements to an artwork and tends to set the mood of a piece. The use of vibrant colors to emit a sense of liveliness contrasts with dark, warm colors that smother the audience. Many artists are inclined to repeatedly use the same color scheme in their work which approaches an overall theme for an artist. Studying the color tendencies of artists creates an interesting collection.

Color Schemes consists of lively colors along with dim, shady images that give off different moods. Each artist has a distinctive characteristic that can be determined when viewing a collection of their work. Colors ultimately determine the viewers overall feeling towards the piece.

Welcome to My Crib

The first stop on the journey through my blog takes you through Takashi Murakami's exotic style of using vibrant colors and odd animations to liven the mood. From there, Jamie Williams Grossman exhibits her ability to display nature's colors in her still life paintings. After this, Michael Raedecker goes against the norm, displaying his paintings with an absence of color. The emptiness of his work is soon filled with Carrie Ann Baade's unusually colorful paintings. Her imagination combined with her color combinations emits a feeling that defies reality. Kehinde Wiley closes the collectoin by demonstrating his wide range of vivid color combinations. He confirms the idea that colors impact the mood of an artwork.

Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami's work involves numerous amounts of lively colors. His variety of colors energizes the mood of his work and his abstract ideas coincide with his exotic color schemes. Using bright, noticeable colors, Murakami accomplishes the ability to create a lively mood based on his color choice.

Takashi Murakami

And Then……Green Truth

1999

Offset lithograph

19.7" x 19.7"

Takashi Murakami

Francis Bacon Study of George Dyer

2003

screenprint with platinum leaf

23.6" x 23.6"

Takashi Murakami

Gero Tan

2002

Acrylic on canvas mounted on board

11.9' x 23.7' x 2.5"

Takashi Murakami

Eco Eco Rangers Earth Force

2005

screenprint in colors on wove paper

14" x 19"

Takashi Murakami

Self-Portrait of the Manifold Worries of a Manifoldly Distressed Artist

2012

Acrylic on canvas mounted on board

59" x 59"

Jamie Williams Grossman

I chose Jamie Williams Grossman as my artists who is not found in the lecture due to her reocurring themes of nature and use of natural colors that we see as a part of Earth. Grass, water, dirt, and sky can almost always be found in her work; or a live animal such as a bird. Green is common in her paintings and her use of nature's colors creates a realistic feeling and the need to be at peace with nature.

Jamie Williams Grossman

Bathtime for Mango

2014

oils on Ampersand Gessoboard

7" x 5"

Jamie Williams Grossman

Contemplation

2013

oils on archival linen panel

12" x 16"

Jamie Williams Grossman

Path to the Cozy Cottage

2013

varnished acrylic on sealed, archival artboard

10" x 8"

Jamie Williams Grossman

Fishing on the Hudson River

2013

Golden OPEN Acrylics on canvas covered hardboard

12" x 12"

Jamie Williams Grossman

Beside the Babbling Brook

2013

oils on canvas covered hardboard

10" x 8"

Michael Raedecker

Michael Raedecker's lack of color in his paintings describes his work as empty and open to one's own interpretation. In Brilliant Gloom, he uses some color, which draws all of the focus. Most of his black and white paintings look empty and in need of someone to color them in. This style differs greatly from vibrant artwork.

Michael Raedecker

Overnight

1998

oil, acrylic, wool, wood veneer, and thread on canvas

73" x 58"

Michael Raedecker

Beam

2000

acrylic and thread on canvas

80" x 68"

Michael Raedecker

Reverb

1998

Acrylic and thread on canvas

24" x 32"

Michael Raedecker

Phantom

1999

acrylic and thread on canvas

48" x 58"

Michael Raedecker

Brilliant gloom

2004

Acrylic and thread on canvas

74 3/4" x 122"

Carrie Ann Baade

Carrie Ann Baade's paintings all contain several different solid colors that stand out to the viewer. In much of her work, different objects take on different solid colors that spread the focus around. Red, green, blue, and many more colors can be found in her work. Almost every color in the rainbow is always present.

Carrie Ann Baade

The Plague: An Allegory about Dating

2009

oil on panel,

16" x 20”

Carrie Ann Baade

The Temptation of the Penitent Medusa

2010

oil on panel

12" x 18"

Carrie Ann Baade

Cupid Complaining to Venus

2005

oil on copper

8" x 10"

Carrie Ann Baade

The Slayer of the Snaalygaster

2005

oil on copper

9” × 12”

Carrie Ann Baade

Untitled (Hawk headed infant with frogs)

2005

oil on copper

9" x 12"

Kehinde Wiley is Lively

Kehinde Wiley uses vibrant colors to create a sense of liveliness and exuberant emotion. His paintings all share a similar color scheme which allows one to draw a conclusion about his work and tendencies. The following images represent his style of painting and his usual color choice.