Color realism (art style)
- Color realism (art style)
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Detail of
Woman with a Water Pitcher, by
Johannes Vermeer, showing arm broken into two large areas of mixed color.
Color realism is a fine art style where accurately portrayed colors create a sense of space and form. It employs a flattening of objects into areas of color, where the modulations occur more as a result of an object interacting with the color and light of its environment than the sculptural modeling of form or presentation of textural detail. The actual color of an object, or 'local color', is held secondary to how that color interacts with surrounding light sources that may alter the look of the original color. Warm light of the sun, cool light from the sky, and warm reflected light bouncing off other objects are all examples of how a local color may be affected by its location in space.
Earliest proponents of this style include the Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer and Hendrick Terbrugghen.[citation needed]
The Lute Player by Hendrick Terbrugghen, detail of hand and sleeve showing skin color and white shirt broken into planes of color from direct light and reflected light of room.
Recent artists working with this style include the Boston School of painters, such as Edmund Tarbell and William Paxton. These artists combined vibrant Impressionist pastel colors with a more traditional palette, to create color-realist works that have a full range of dark to light values.[1] Contemporary artists utilizing elements of this style include Sam Vokey, Charles Tersolo[citation needed], and Barbara Glee Lucas.
Detail of
Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer, showing yellow bodice becoming a mixture of purple and orange-yellow in shadow between waist and arms from reflected light
References
- ^ A Legacy of Beauty: Paintings in the Boston School Tradition by Christopher Volpe
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- Realism (art movement)
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