Still Life -- Painting Color Matching Application Series

Author: Feng Zhiguo
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Visual psychology tells us that humans first recognize the objective world through the perception of color, followed by an understanding of form. Color is an important means of expressing our emotions and the core of visual language. The focus of color lies in grasping its basic principles, which mainly include the following points: 1. Control of color temperature, i.e., the overall color relationships in a composition. 2. Expression of warm and cool color relationships. 3. The ability to use color to shape forms. The first two points examine the basic understanding of color, while the third assesses students' comprehensive application of both drawing and color. The concepts frequently discussed in daily conversation, such as brightness, saturation, light source color, environmental color, and local color, are all aimed at deepening the rational understanding of color. They are not isolated entities but rather the key to recognizing color and the fundamental vocabulary of color expression. In this sense, the fundamental purpose of color is to evaluate whether students can use these basic vocabularies to convey the overall visual impression. This series of books on color application in painting, including figures, landscapes, and still lifes, aims to help readers quickly understand and recognize color through the analysis of color composition in painting and the concise explanation of general color-matching principles. May this series become your trusted guide and companion in the world of art.