RGBDESIGNER GALLERY #2
Colour Inspiration From Phantasmagorical Art
Looking for colour moods in moody paintings.
How much of the atmosphere of an artwork is derived from the colours?
Red is a popular colour when depicting fire and hell, green alludes to a lush landscape, brown to a desiccated vista and grey never fails to bring the gloom.
I’m often look at artworks considering how light and shade, hue and brilliance are used to evoke different moods. I’ve always enjoy surrealist art and the many phantasmagorical artists from Hieronymus Bosch to Gustave Moreau who provided inspiration.
I’ve chosen three such works to explore for this second instalment in the rgbDesigner Gallery Series.
From the Ruins
Monsù Desiderio might not even be a real artist, more a moniker for a group of artists from the 17th Century working in a similar style.
Ruins with Legend of Saint Augustine depicts a crumbling metropolis, replete with the faded colours of antiquity.
The Bitterness of Winter
A detail from Caspar David Friedrich’s The Abbey in the Oak Forest.
A dull and overcast sky sits behind the ruins of an abbey in an oak forest. The leaves on the trees have long since dropped, perhaps for winter or, judging from the branches that have broken away from the trees, they may well be dead.
The Fall of the Angels
A detail from Fran Floris’ The Fall of the Angels, featuring a range hellish colours and tones, along with a frightening array of demons and monsters.
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This is the second rgbDesigner Gallery featuring images created with rgbDesigner. You can read the first here:
