Monday, 13 January 2020

Another Blue and White Medley

#classicblue

Here's some more blue and white art to inspire you


Probably one of the best color layouts featuring blue tints hues and shades is this Japanese print !


This Kiitsu painting shows how one area of intense blue and white can centre another wise minimalist near monochrome tonal work


This Chinese Ming ceramic garden stool shows dark blue contrasted with a mid blue and some white.


Vietnamese Ceramics tend to feature a more muted use of cobalt for coloring.


European painting has a different more tonal approach to using blue partly because of the expense of mineral pigments. Notice how the lighter blues contrast with the  near white foreground of fallen snow and the tones of the winter sky in this Sassetta painting.


This image of St Mark uses ultramarine pigment mixed with other colors to guide our eyes across the work from the pale blue sky across his robe down to the book's cover.


To finish our medley - Here's blue in a different medium - mosaic tiles A Byzantine work.






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