Fauvist Barns 3 : Red in Landscape Painting
Oil on MDF panel
30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches).
©adam cope
Red in landscape painting acts as a magnet
Same barn as in ‘Sechoir à Tabac 1’. Same issues. Muted colour (‘anti-fauve barn’) or heightened ‘fauve’ colour:
…paint a rusty barn & keep it browny rust , rather than let it go over into heightened colour RED. – Adam in the post Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened Colour
..trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting it slip into heighten, saturated colour RED. With a painter’s confession – there’s always apart of me that wishes to paint all bright & fauve. Or least prioritise colour in a composition. – Adam in the post Fauvist barns, heightened colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
30 x 40 cm.
Oil on Panel.
© The Artist.
150 euros via PayPal
POST-SCRIPTUM : well…. why not? I want red? I’ll give myself red. Here’s one of my painting that’s red, primary red & with no subtle deviations…
30 x 40 cm
oil on board
© the artist
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2017: POST SCRIPTUM … Here’s a green barn. A tobacco drying barn with planking painted green. Fun!
Fauvist Barns 1 : Muted Red & not Heightened RED
Fauvist Barns 2 : Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
Fauvist Barns 3 : Red in Landscape Painting
Wolf Kahn once said that orange is a self-demanding color (or something like that: LOUD!) but we have permission to use it as it is actually found in nature.
The modernists had their agenda, but I often think that color needs it’s say, and it sometimes says things in muted form.
Yes, low key muted can be lovely colour.
Interesting that you should put colour in ature as sometimes vulgar & colour in art as sometimes muted.
Nice work Adam
I love the vibrancy of your work.
I am also very much into reds, but I am afraid I do not have the sma flayre.
I look forward to see more of your work.
Regards
Thanks for the visit & encouragement Trevor.
I don’t know about what you say, there’s some preety good watercolours on your blog 🙂 Maybe there’s some truth in what some people like Trevor Chamberlin says about wc being tone with colour on the top? Then in which case how can one have really vibrant colours in a wc?