Color palettes from famous paintings and a color palette generator.
Color, colors, and colors again... Where to start. Let's assume by default that Artists have a sense of color. I found an interesting site by Dr.Woohoo where he presents his very cool Color Analytics project. Dr. Woohoo authored a method to present color schemes (pallettes) by analyzing the paintings of famous Artists.
A quote from interview with Dr. Woohoo in regards to color, at In The Mod: Color Analytics
Dr. Woohoo: "There are so many relationships and hidden secrets within the paintings that color analysis can reveal. For instance, look at the results of Mark Rothko's paintings. The diamonds represent the weighted mean (the weighted average) color for each each painting. They are linked together in chronological order. The colors are plotted along the x-axis based on hue, along the top 1/2 of the y-axis based on brightness - if brightness trumps saturation - and along the bottom 1/2 of the y-axis based on saturation...
There are so many secrets hidden in color palettes and so little time..."
Let's review some examples on Dr. Woohoo's site and see how it works :
From http://www.inthemod.com/inthemod.html: Robert Rauschenberg
Title: Collection(formerly Untitled)
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Robert Rauschenberg was creating controversial pictures that used unusual colors and a range of found junkyard objects.
I cropped details from:
Oil, cardboard, wood, and metal on canvas, 108 x 240"
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963
used "color palette" to generate a pallete for this piece of art.
These particular colors sound very happy and are exciting for me. |
From http://www.inthemod.com/inthemod.html: Van Gogh | 
Van Gogh used colors to express moods and emotions—or as he said, "to suggest any emotion of an ardent temperament."
Vincent's Room, Arles
1888; Vincent Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam
It is one of my favorites.
Again, I used http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ to generate the pallete. And I love it! |
| What about FeaturePics Images? |
 | Supose you are developing a history related web site. Just think what colors your eyes are used to seeing when you are visiting historical sites? Doorway, Jedburgh Abbey is a good example by Photomac Would you agree this pallete is just perfect for your future history related site?
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