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Read Time: 3min John Ruskin was a critic who could out-paint most painters, a great educator who reinvented how we see art. He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.
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Read Time: 3min Josef Albers provided the most comprehensive analysis of the function and perception of color to date and profoundly influenced art education and artistic practice in the twentieth century.
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Read Time: 3min Henri Matisse quotes come out of a six-decade career in working in all media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. His revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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Read Time: 3min Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Wittgenstein quotes about color indicate he had a keen interest in art, too.
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Read Time: 2min Leonardo da Vinci was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who’s known for his enduring works “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa.” Leonardo da Vinci quotes reveal his genius across a wide range of disciplines including color.
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Read Time: 3min American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe quotes show how strongly she felt about color. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes and is recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”.
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Read Time: 2min Although there are only two Joseph Addison quotes I have found about color, “Colors speak all languages” and “Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors” are two of my favorites among the hundreds of color quotes I have gathered. If you aren’t familiar with Joseph Addison, he was an English […]
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Read Time: 3min Hans Hofmann was an influential 20th century a German-born American art teacher whose work paved the way for abstract expressionism. Hofmann The selected Hans Hofmann quotes reveal how he thought about color.
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Read Time: < 1minute The windows at Anthropologie are always well done but these that asked & answered the question – Why Color?– especially captured my heart.
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Read Time: 2min Chuck Close is an American painter/artist and photographer who achieved fame through his massive-scale portraits. His quotes speak to his use of color but viewing one of his canvases up close tells a great deal about how he thinks about and uses color.
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Read Time: 3min Eugène Delacroix was one of the leading artists of the French Romantic period of the 19th century. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and use of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
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Read Time: 3min James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a U.S.-born British painter who is best-known for his painting, “Whistler’s Mother”. Here is what he had to say about color.
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Read Time: 2min Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are many notable Diana Vreeland quotes about color.
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Read Time: 2min French artist Paul Gauguin’s bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts helped him achieve broad success in the late 19th century.
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Read Time: 3min Claude Monet was born in 1840, in Paris, France. He enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression” and the term stuck.
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Read Time: 3min Post-Impressionist French painter Paul Cézanne is best known for his incredibly varied painting style, which greatly influenced 20th century abstract art.