Unit 3 The Gift of Art
Colorful Stories of Art
____ artists are famous for their particular use of color.
While some artists mix interesting and unique colors, other artists use primary colors to express ____ emotions.
As we walk through our newest exhibition, Colorful Stories of Art, we will explore the use of the three primary colors―yellow, blue, and red―and find out how they were a source ____ inspiration.
Open your eyes, listen to ____ stories, and try to feel the emotions that the colors show.
Vincent van Gogh
The first artist is Vincent ____ Gogh.
According to research, the French city of Arles, where van Gogh spent his later years, ____ exceptionally bright and intense sunlight.
Van Gogh expressed the sunlight, ____ and the joy of life he felt there through bright yellow colors.
During his short life of 37 years, he created more than 900 paintings, around 300 of which ____ mostly yellow.
The series of paintings called Sunflowers includes some ____ his most recognizable works.
Some ____ said that his preference for yellow in his artwork was due to a medical condition that forced him to see mainly yellow.
While this may be true, we can also ____ his use of blue, orange, and other colors, and these combinations of colors serve to emphasize his joy being conveyed.
Edward Hopper
Van Gogh used yellow to express joy, but Edward Hopper’s use of yellow ____ loneliness.
Hopper lived in New York City for nearly six decades, and he ____ paintings depicting urban scenes that showed how even familiar surroundings could cause the viewer to feel a sense of loneliness.
Hopper’s Nighthawks is a good example ____ this.
There are four people in the same diner, but ____ clearly not together.
The bright yellow walls create a dramatic contrast to the darkness outside, emphasizing how people can be in the same space ____ feel apart.
In Hopper’s Automat, ____ feeling of loneliness is even more direct.
The yellow lights lead the viewer’s eye to the yellow hat of the woman, and the cool shades of the other colors contrast with the warm yellow, ____ that she’s on her own.
Kim Whanki & Henri Matisse
The color blue can produce a ____ effect.
Even during his days in Paris and ____ York, Kim Whanki never forgot his Korean identity.
The blue sky and blue seas reminded him of Sinan, his home in Korea, which inspired him to create paintings filled with various ____ of blue.
His use of blue was ____ expression of how much he missed the place he grew up in.
____ Tranquility 5-IV-73 #310, the waves of deep blue and light blue dots bring up images of the sea or the sky.
Kim Whanki said that he painted ____ dot as he thought of friends and loved ones from home.
____ the other hand, Henri Matisse’s blue speaks of freedom.
Polynesia, the ____ and Polynesia, the Sea are two Matisse works that have an interesting similarity.
In his later years, Matisse had cancer surgery, which left him unable to stand and ____ in front of an easel.
Instead of painting, he created artwork by gluing paper cut-outs and then ____ details.
Although his physical difficulties prevented ____ from doing many things, he still remembered the freedom he experienced while swimming in the Tahitian sea, looking through the salt water down to the sea floor and up towards the sky.
R.C. Gorman & Claude Monet
Our last color is red, which is often associated with life ____ energy.
R.C. Gorman, known as the Picasso of Native American art, may have felt the same way ____ he created Navajo Velvet.
The ____ depicts a woman sitting on the ground, deep in thought.
Her figure in a red dress resembles a huge mountain against the background ____ the deep, starry blue night, suggesting the relationship between her and nature.
Sometimes red is used ____ express the beauty of nature.
____ Monet’s Autumn Effect at Argenteuil shows how the artist celebrated beautiful autumn moments.
The bright reds in the painting ____ the amazing and transformative power of nature.
The painting captures the dramatic ____ when the forest turns bright red and is reflected on the surface of the river.
Color is powerful because it stimulates such an emotional response in ____
Artists use the same color to express various feelings, so the way we interpret ____ artwork can be various too.
____ your eyes and let the emotions of the artwork come to you.
You may love it or you may hate it, ____ art will always take you to a place beyond everyday life.
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