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Mark Rothko’s #212. Complementary Colors. Mark Rothko’s Untitled. What are Complementary Colors? Colors which lie directly across from each other on the color wheel. Also called Color Dyads, since they’re in pairs. (Primary) (Secondary) Red Green
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What are Complementary Colors? Colors which lie directly across from each other on the color wheel. Also called Color Dyads, since they’re in pairs.
(Primary) (Secondary) Red Green Yellow Violet Blue Orange
Persian Miniature Painting Hindu Deities Krishna and Radha in a Grove, 1780. (gouache on paper)
Willem de Kooning Seated Womanoil and charcoal / board 54" x 36"1940
Not only can complementary colors complement each other……they can also neutralizeor cancel each other out.When mixed together, their original INTENSITY is suppressed, leading us to Chromatic / Neutral Grays…
Carianne Mack in the thick of it 32 x 40” 2008
Jean Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Lean Diet b.1699 – d.1779
Cool / Warm Portraits Playing on complementary colors . . .
Portrait of Sebastia Juner Vidal Picasso Oil on canvas 1903
Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto By Pablo Picasso Est. 1904
Harlequin Picasso Est. 1906
Boy with a Pipe (garcon a la pipe) Picasso 1905
untitled Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian Expressionist 1864 – 1941)
Alexej von Jawlensky Oil on board 1909
Self-Portrait Alexej von Jawlensky
Death in the Sickroom (version 1) Edvard Munch Oil on canvas 1893
Death in the Sickroom (version 2) Edvard Munch Oil on canvas 59 x 66” 1895
Portratt avhlge backstrom (self-portrait?) Edvard Munch
Bring next week: • 16 x 20” Gessoed Surface . . . . . . and after gessohas dried (10hrs) Paint a WARM GROUND (must dry 24hrs) (ground color need not be fully opaque) • 3 complementary scales (completed color grid) • Cont’d work on self-portrait…