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Curator: Julia Hwang
Throughout history, humans have depicted their thoughts and feelings through painting, sculpture, and other forms of the arts. In art, color is a necessity to depict the thoughts and feelings of the artist. Throughout art, the meaning and concept of color has been drastically changed. For example, in the first cave paintings, color was just a representation of the subject being painted. Soon as man developed in ideas and in religion, colors started to symbolize religious meanings and concepts. For instance, during the Renaissance, blue symbolized the sky and heaven. Soon, color became a part of the painter depicting, emotion, feeling, and views. Throughout the website, viewers will see and distinguish the differences of the use of color throughout history.
Raphael, School of Athens, 1510-1511
Vatican, Rome
Raphael, School of Athens, 1510-1511
Vatican, Rome
Our GoalOur goal in the Color Throughout Art website is to educate people in the concepts and meanings of color throughout art.
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." Wassily Kandinsky |
Quotes "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
-Georgia O'Keeffe "My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility." Henri Matisse |