This is a portrait by the Russian painter Jawlensky called
"The Red Blossom." His palette of pure colors
was influenced by the Fauves and features their characteristic
flatness and purity of colors.
The colors in the painting by Van Gogh are softened by
the addition of white. The result is a mellow feeling with
low contrast dominance.
This painting by Van Gogh is divided into two main horizontal
bands of color. It gives the painting a strong sense of
composition.
The color blue in the tree trunks
seems to change hue and value depending what other colors
it is juxtaposed against.
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Gauguin has created a red field against which Jacob and
the angel are wrestling. The color red is being used symbolically
tp portray this mythical story.
Paul Seurat used a pointilist technique to create this
painting. Instead of mixing a green color on the canvas,
he would place a blue stroke and a yellow stroke next to
each other and allowed the color green to be assembled in
the viewer's eye.
