Georges Seurat and colors

Georges Seurat

Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony and emotion in art in the same way that a musician uses counterpoint and variation to create harmony in music. Seurat theorized that the scientific application of color was like any other natural law, and he was driven to prove this conjecture. He thought that the knowledge of perception and optical laws could be used to create a new language of art based on its own set of heuristics and he set out to show this language using lines, color intensity and color schema. Seurat called this language Chromoluminarism.

His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations".

Seurat's theories can be summarized as follows: The emotion of gaiety can be achieved by the domination of luminous hues, by the predominance of warm colors, and by the use of lines directed upward. Calm is achieved through an equivalence/balance of the use of the light and the dark, by the balance of warm and cold colors, and by lines that are horizontal. Sadness is achieved by using dark and cold colors and by lines pointing downward.

Bathers at Asnières, 
1884, National Gallery, London

The Circus,
1891, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Soleil Levant | Claude Monet

Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)
1872

It's a picture that represents the dawn: what he wanted to bring out the author was the first impression he had before this time of day.
In the background the sun appears like a fireball in the fog, the sea where the water reflects the colors of dawn.
In the foreground there is only the dark shape of a small boat. In the background, shrouded in mist and smoke, can glimpse the shadows of some chimneys.
It 'a framework in which colors prevail bodied, orange and blue dominate and, in part, the green mixed with blue water, the light is a bit' blurred, because the sun is not up yet.
It 'a picture is revolutionary because it does not landscape but the sensation it provokes the landscape itself.

The Amazing Giant Ice Sculptures China's Coolest Christmas

These impressive ice sculptures are part of a display for the upcoming Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival.

The festival officially begins on January 5, when 800,000 tourists are expected to visit the freezing city in northern China.

As well as the colourful life-sized ice buildings, which reflect traditional Chinese architecture, there is also a 160m high Father Christmas sculpture, said by organisers to be the world's largest.

Arts: Ice/Water

Nele Azevedo, a Brazilian artist creates hundreds of sitting figures out of ice. All of them were put seated on the stairs - - the installation lasted till the last one melted in the heat of the day. 

This amazing installation of 1,000 melting men was done in collaboration with the WWF to highlight global warming.