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I often hear people say to me that Blue is their favorite color. Why? Because Blue can make people calm and comfort. In psychology, Blue is also giving the sense of depress and melancholy.
In this exhibition of “Blue”, I first chose the lesson of landscapes. Taking about Blue, people would always think about “sky” or “ocean”. This painting is the one using more colors than blue in this lesson. It makes the Blue stand out more.
Once I saw this painting, I thought that is the sea wave rolling sands. Blue and White make the sea wave texture by using splash color. But when I mentioned the blue galaxy on the top, it put me to the universe. The painting highlights the blue color with two different landscapes style. It just likes the title “Symphony” that violent waves collide with the unfathomable galaxy. It is very interesting and beautiful.
In shape lesson, I like Landon Metz’s watercolor painting more than Henri Matisse Matisse’s paper cutting. The shapes Metz painted are soft and smooth. Even though he uses many creamy white for the background, the blue still makes attention. The shadow of Blue make it pop up. The using of Benjamin Moore colors makes the sense of comfort. To answer the question from this lesson, the similar thing from those two painting is they both using different color to make the contrast. And both are abstract. However, Innes uses rectangle shapes, straight lines and high contrast with blue, black(dark) and white(light). It makes the painting more clam and deep. Metz uses curve lines and low saturation that gives more active sense. I would like to put Metz’s painting in my bedroom because the colors are making me more comfortable.
The third lesson is storytelling. Andrew Sendor uses illustrator with the interrelation of photorealism and invented narrative structures. I researched about this “Saturday’s hallucinations”, the story is around a young woman called “Saturday”. She is a free-spirited professional mountain climber and horse trainer.Her mysterious disappearance during a mountaineering expedition led to a series of conflicting events that led her family and friends to assume the worst. Sendor’s portrayals electrify the psychological drama of Saturday’s memories, relationships, and prophesies. He not only uses illustrator painting, but also uses collage from the background to “Saturday”. The blue tone is making the sense of mystery for Sendor’s story. You can feel the changes of the Blue levels.
As the dominant color of cool color tones, when blue goes darker, it makes more sense of unfathomable than Black does.
