Color

Author: Wu Zuoren, Fine Arts
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Color is a very important part of the language of art. If a painting lacks color, it becomes pale and lifeless, lacking emotional expression and vitality. Everyone has their own favorite colors and unique ways of organizing and combining them, so color is also a very art language. Only by experiencing the charm of color can we express emotions and shape images with the language of color. First, we must believe in our own feelings. Those who lack feelings cannot engage in artistic creation, but relying solely on feelings is not enough. On one hand, we must understand color based on sensibility, and on the other hand, we must master the rules of color expression and the principles of organization and combination. Only in this way can our color works have stronger expressiveness.
Value relationships are what we commonly refer to as the black-and-white-gray relationships. Reasonably arranging black, white, and gray relationships is the first step in rationally analyzing color in painting. Only by establishing a framework can we make the color "stand" and "shine."
Second is hue. Every arrangement of color will have a dominant hue relationship—whether it is "cool," "warm," or greenish, bluish, or yellowish, etc. Only by first establishing the dominant hue can we organize the relationships of each color group with a unified hue tone, making them connected and creating a harmonious and unified aesthetic in the artwork. On this basis, we can then pay attention to the differences in the cool and warm tendencies of the light and dark parts of the objects.