COLOR IN ART

MIXED-HP COLORS

This is a really BIG painting-taller than your bedroom door and more than four times as wide. And it's all about color. The artist is telling us about movement and energy, and he's using a lot of color to do it.

SOLID COLORS

These are just plain, colored pieces of paper, but the artist carefully placed them together to make a snail. Can you see the spiral sweep of the snail's shell?

HAPPY, FRIENDLY COLORS

Sometimes colors make you feel happy. This statue of a flower is so colorful and friendly you just feel like walking up and hugging it.

QUIET, SAD COLORS

For many years this artist painted pictures that were mostly blue. All the shades of blue give you an idea about how the old guitarist feels. Maybe they tell you something about how the artist felt too.

REAL COLOR

It's hard to believe that this is a painting. The artist used colors that make it look as real as a photograph. The sky is bright blue and the diner is shiny silver, just like one you might see in your town.

MAKEBELIEVE COLOR

Cows aren't yellow! But the artist painted this cow just the way he imagined her. She's yellow and blue on an orange and red field with blue hills behind her. We can tell she's a happy cow. She's jumping and mooing and maybe even celebrating. That's an artist with a good imagination.

LOTS OF COLORS

When you look at this painting from far away it looks as if there are big areas of plain, solid colors. But when you get closer you can see thousands of little dots of color-reds and yellows and blues and greens. The artist is telling us that the world is complicated-it takes a lot of colors to show what life is like.

In all these pictures, colors explain what the artist is trying to tell us: the mood, the feeling, the dream, the reality.

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