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[eternalportraits]

The Language of Color: How Artists Use Hue to Evoke Emotion and Meaning

Color is more than a visual experience—it's a universal language that conveys emotion, culture, and meaning in art. From calming blues to passionate reds, the psychological impact of color has been harnessed by artists for centuries to guide emotions, direct attention, and tell stories. The article "The Language of Color: Unlocking Emotion and Meaning in Art" explores how artists balance color harmony and contrast to create moods and enhance compositions, making their work resonate deeply with viewers.

Delving into the cultural significance of colors, it discusses how hues take on unique meanings across different societies—white symbolizing purity in the West and mourning in parts of Asia. This dynamic interplay of culture, art, and color theory is just one way artists breathe life into their creations.

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[naturalflowism]

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Lavinia, had been stalked before traumatising both her and her childs life but did being innocently celebrated 🍾 in a public place years later lead to years of continual targeting threat and Intimidation? How many other innocent well meaning people affected? The experience of being stalked has been synonymous with fame for years is it suspicious that so many people make the same claim and complaint about how stalking is dealt with? Are the threating and Intimidators well hidden or blatantly obvious?

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[stonethetic]

A Procrastinator's Inktober Day 13, Prompt 20: Frost

[newssocialite]

Владимир Мартиросов представит «Траектории ощущений» в галерее ARTSTORY

С 16 января по 16 февраля 2025 года в московской галерее ARTSTORY пройдёт выставка «Владимир Мартиросов. Траектории ощущений». Этот выставочный проект посвящен 50-летнему юбилею художника и представляет собой ретроспективу его творчества, охватывающую более 20 лет. Экспозиция собрала как знаковые работы мастера, так и совершенно новые объекты, которые зрители увидят впервые. Творчество Владимира…

[gnevritual]

When I started creating this painting, I really wanted to make something special. I was searching for the right references, but I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. Then I remembered the famous works of old masters—one of them was Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine. I wanted to create something similar in composition. At that time, my artistic style was just starting to take shape, and its main feature was often a cute doll-like figure with a realistic face.

Somehow, I felt that such an innocent, delicate, and vulnerable being needed to be held by something completely opposite to create a stark contrast, making her the centerpiece of the painting. I chose the Reaper. I decided he would be the most fitting for this role.

When I had painted most of the artwork, and it was clear who was holding the girl, a client came to me for a tattoo session. At that time, I was working as a tattoo artist, and I didn’t know that she had cancer. She was in the final stage of the disease and could no longer walk. Her husband carried her to the second floor, where she saw my painting.

I felt slightly uneasy, even uncomfortable, but her words froze me. She wanted me to tattoo that painting on her because, as she said, she didn’t have much time left anyway. At first, without thinking too long, I told her, “Let’s let this one heal first, and then we’ll decide how to proceed with the next step.” I said the idea wasn’t bad at all.

But after she left, I realized that I would never, ever tattoo this artwork on her. Despite her seeing herself in my painting and recognizing how death was already holding her in its arms, I believe in energy. I have a very strong energy force myself, and honestly, I was afraid to tattoo this painting on her. I feared that I might unintentionally accelerate her departure from this world.

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[digikhushpreet]

Captivating Warli art, where every stroke tells a story! 🖌️✨

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[bartoszbeda]

Day-to-Day Abstract Figurative Experiences

Day-to-Day Abstract Figurative Experiences I turn everyday moments into abstract art, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and telling visual stories. 🎨✨

[arsenenicholas]

(Previously velesisgod) Hi im Arsène. Im a man. I use he/him in english and він/воно in Ukrainian. I'm aro and polyamorous.

I am a faggot. I am also a faggot for women.

(I am a man who likes other men. And women. And normal people who got over the whole 'gender' thing.)

Pagan, i worship gods of many pantheons, mainly Slavic and Greek. Patron god - Dionysos.

I like mythology, the macabre, horror (especially gothic horror), weird stuff(tm), death, violence (erotic), musicals, fashion (mainly goth, punk, emo, scene, steampunk, vintage[1800s]), outdoors, being trans.

Tagging system: Mine- му оши роsтs (idk might add more later) | answerer answers- answered asks

Dni- -any kind of bigots: racists, homophobes, sexists (both ways), transphobes, ableists, fatphobes...etc -nsfw blogs (its fine if you sometimes repost/say nsfw things but if its your main thing then plz block me)

So turn with the turn of the merry-go-round and dance to its jolly old song. Who will you be, with a name or three, and a stranger's face worn wrong?

[billhinostroza]

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I’ve been wanting to create an art journey video for a while and here it is. I’ve only been drawing more consistently this year so I wanted to share my art progress with all of you.

[stochastique-blog]

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Does your living room or patio needs something to brighten its ambience.? These incredibly beautiful collection of lanterns accentuate lights in such an amazing yet subtle way, that it can easily transform any area!

[naturalflowism]

#watercolours #paintings #art

#therapy #2024 #rapecase #stalkingisacrime #artistdiaries #shorts #artistonyoutube #artist #artistoninstagram #laviniadeayr

@naturalflowismstudios

Where Therapy is the Process

Natural Flowism

A Freedom of Being!

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[stonethetic]

A Procrastinator's Inktober Day 15/16, Prompt 23: Celestial

[norcal44]

ArtStory...incredible craftsmanship

[mybeingthere]

Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955) was in many respects the quintessential Surrealist. A sociable eccentric who ate spiders as a party trick, and a close friend of Andre Breton, Tanguy was best-known for his misshapen rocks and molten surfaces that lent definition to the Surrealist aesthetic. Self-taught but enormously skilled, Tanguy painted a hyper-real world with exacting precision. His landscapes, a high-octane blend of fact and fiction, captured the attention of important artists and thinkers from Salvador Dalí to Mark Rothko who admitted their debt to the older artist. And even Carl Gustav Jung used a canvas by Tanguy to illustrate his theory of the collective unconscious.

Yves Tanguy was born into a maritime family. His father was a sea captain and the family lived at the Ministere de la Marine in the Place de La Concorde. The seas, skies and stones of the the Finistère coasts in Brittany, where Tanguy spent his summers as a child, appear in his mature work. His early life dealt him some hard blows - his father died in 1908 and his brother died in the First World War. His mother moved to Locronan, Finistère, but Tanguy stayed in Paris to complete his education. As a teenager, Tanguy was lucky enough to make friends with Pierre Matisse (son of Henri Matisse) whose encouragement and support would be crucial to his artistic career, which did not begin immediately. His family expected him to join the Merchant Navy and so he did, working on cargo boats between South America and Africa from 1918-1919. In 1920 he was conscripted into the French Army in Tunis, where he met the poet Jacques Prévert who delighted in Tanguy's eccentricity and strange habits - from chewing his socks to eating live spiders. The latter became a party trick that he would often repeat.

KEY IDEAS

Tanguy's symbolism is personal, reflecting his obsession with childhood memory, dreams, hallucinations and psychotic episodes. It defies explicit interpretation, and evokes a range of associations that engage the viewer's imagination and emotions.

Tanguy's landscapes strike a balance between realism and fantasy. Naturalistically-depicted objects hover in midair, or drift toward the sky. Masterful manipulations of scale and perspective, and keen observations of the natural world contribute to the hallucinatory effect of his scenes. His bizarre rock formations were most likely inspired by the terrain of Brittany, where his mother lived.

Like other Surrealists, Tanguy was preoccupied with dreams and the unconscious. What set him apart was the naturalistic precision with which he depicted the mind and its contents. This was his key contribution. More vividly than any artist before him, Tanguy imagined and depicted the unconscious as a place. (the artstory).