This gallery is focused on surrealism artworks that use a wide variety of colors in them. The color spectrum in an artwork affects how people look at them and can drastically change human perception and how they sense it. This gallery includes paintings, sculptures and installation from important established artists and also more contemporary artists. Let your eyes enjoy a colorful experience.
Personagge, Joan Miró, 1973, From the collection of: Fundación Banco Santander
Joan Miro's Personagge is an example of how color really complements a painting. The usage of different colors can give life to a painting. The colors used by Miró are very strong visual colors, so it is very well used for the "personagge's" body form, eyes and other elements.
The weatherman, Max Ernst, 1950 - 1950, From the collection of: Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna
Max Ernst is a very important surrealism artist. He has a very peculiar way of doing art, but this is different from the others in terms of geometry. Ernst used the color spectrum on his favor in order to represent the different elements. The colors represent each of the characteristics of an specific weather like blue meaning rain, red could mean burning sun and orange or yellow could mean a normal sunny day.
Solitary Orpheus, Giorgio de Chirico, 1973/1973, From the collection of: Museo Carlo Bilotti
Giorgio de Chirico's Solitary Orpheus is an excellent example on the color spectrum in surrealism. This painting uses an extensive range of colors to illustrate how surrealism was perceived by Chirico's. By using all this colors, the painting itself gets a more "over realistic" sense. It looks more unreal and this is not exactly a bad characteristic for this type of art.
Construct and Destroy, Yves Tanguy, 1940 - 1940, From the collection of: Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna
Yves Tanguy's Construct and Destroy is a remarkable work of art that has a unique style on it. This painting does not really have a whole lot of colors, but has an interesting contrast between them. The dull colors from the background really help to emphasize other elements on the artwork. Thanks to the limited palette of colors in the background the contrasting colors like yellow, blue and orange really stand out so the viewer centers the attention to those elements.
Mr. Magritte's Hat, Wolfgang Lettl, 1976, From the collection of: Lettl Collection
Mr. Magrittes's Hat by Wolfgang Lettl is one of his most known pieces of art. In terms of color spectrum it does not have a wide palette. The important elements of this artwork are emphasized by nonsense and by color separation. The main element of this painting is "Mr Magritte's Hat" and it is kept out the center with a powerful color; Black.
Plaque, Miró, Joan, 1956/1956, From the collection of: Museu do Caramulo
Joan Miró's artworks are very characteristic and have similar elements on most of them. The most recognizable Miró's elements are the exotic figurines and the color spectrum and palette. The contrast he uses to separate those elements is the usage of very "visual and noticeable" colors like: yellow, red, white and blue. The background color he used for this artwork helped him to be able to use the white color in a different manner than only leaving a "blank space" on the canvas.
The Man who Puts Girls on Fire, Wolfgang Lettl, 1967, From the collection of: Lettl Collection
"The man who puts girls on fire" is a very interesting surrealist piece of art. The first noticeable difference is the color palette. The vast majority of colors used on this painting have a "neon" tonality. This gives the viewer a whole new perspective and also makes the painting even more surrealist than what already is. The contrast of the colors are effective since a big percentage of the piece has a dark color. The colorful flowers represent the woman essence and stand out between the dull man figures. And the other important contrast in this painting is the fire which basically explains the title for the artwork and serves as a way to emphasize it.
Composición III, Samy Benmayor, 1990, From the collection of: Inter-American Development Bank
This piece of art bye Samy Benmayor called Composición III is somewhat different than most surrealism artworks. It has a combination of different styles of art that make it a unique painting. Besides from the geometric figures that resemble cubism, what stand out the most is the color spectrum. This painting has a very wide palette of colors on it. It is kind of hard to find an specific element or item depicted, but the colors help separate them. The emphasis on this image is throughout the whole painting since it does not have an actual element that seems more important than other. Samy Benmayor did an excelent job combining elements of color spectrum with different styles of art in one single painting.
I am you & you are me, Okuda, 2014, From the collection of: Artmossphere Studio
This is in art installation by a Spanish artist called Okuda. This surrealism installation is a more "contemporary" style artwork and it is considered to be Pop Surrealism. The color spectrum on this installation is very wide in order to have a good contrast between the two parts. One sculpture is "giving" color to the other throughout beams of light so it was crucial to have one them without much on it.
Untitled, MyeongBeom KIM, 2013, From the collection of: Fubon Art Foundation
Art installations are not always so formal and serious, sometimes they are completely the opposite. This untitled artwork by MyeongBeom Kim is an example of surrealism with a bit of childish imagination. This artwork shows a problem solved by creativity. The colorful ballons represent the creative part of our mind and are effectively used to represent thinking out of the box.
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