Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Arbitrary Color

Bonnard, Pierre, Landscape with Mountain
1924 The Phillips Collection

Artist sometimes choose to paint things in colors that are not true to either their optical or local colors. Bonnard’s painting Landscape is an example of the expressive use of the arbitrary color. No tree leaves are dark brown. The sky and the clouds are different shades of violet which is hard to be found in reality .

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