Basic shapes
Color research
Question 1
Find three pieces of art in which the color red has different meanings.
In this painting the color red represents love or friendship.
In this painting the red color together with the word 'stop' represents stop.
In this last painting the color red represents the devil, darkness and evilness.
Question 2
Find two paintings in which artists use color in a symbolic way, explain the colors and the symbolic meaning.
In this painting the color blue is used to symbolise coldness and ice.
In this second painting the color pink is used to symbolise prettiness and elegance.
Question 3
What kind of art movement is this? Find two paintings of this movement and explain what kind of feeling the colors give.
EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionism is a kind of movement where artist use color in their work in such a way that it expresses certain feelings and emotions.
In this painting the light color yellow represents confidence and fearlessness.
In the second painting painting the colors red and black represent anger and sadness.
4x small basic shapes
Here you can see the sketch I made of four small basic shapes. I drew a sphere, a cube, a cone and a cylinder.
Painting
You can here see the end result of my painting of four basic shapes. I used several colors such as blue, yellow and red. As you can see, the light comes from the upper left corner, which causes the shadows to be in the lower right corner. Also, I had to paint different shades of color, so from light to dark and from dark to light.
Reflection
I think that it was really hard to paint all these shapes and their shadows, although they are basic shapes. I must confess that it did not all go well in just one try, but I am very happy with the result. In particular with the yellow/orange sphere.