During my fine art block I experimented with the use of colour through basic colour sampling. What I discovered however was what colour can represent - whether that through the use of the quantity, the placing on a page or the tone. Picasso, a well known Spanish artist, used colour as his main source of expression frequently in his work (e.g to help him portray certain emotions). He was said to have gone through five major painting styles in his career which included, his earliest, the 'blue period'.
(Woman with a Helmet of Hair 1904)
Looking at his piece above we can clearly see that blue is the colour which dominates the background and subject herself. Although the subject takes up the majority of the pictorial space the attention is some how drained from her and emitted through the blue tones. Although not a contemporary artist, Picasso is still well respected in our society. His sway away from the natural colours during his numerous colour periods helped him to stand out as an individual, along with his many other talented pieces. The representation of the colour blue in the 21st century is still dullness and uncertainty portraying a certain weakness - blue is however a primary colour making it one of the original three most well known dominant colours. Is is so weak after all? Should we as a society interpret the colour blue for something more powerful after all?
(Image: http://www.blesok.com.mk/Images/Gallery/32/p27.jpg [23/11/13]
WikiAnswers (2011) How does Picasso use color in his paintings? [Online] Available: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_does_Picasso_use_color_in_his_paintings#slide2 [25/11/13]
Wikipedia (2013) Pablo Picasso. [Online] Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso [25/11/13])
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