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Art colour schemes from memory — Project

Posted on 12. Sep, 2009 by Jonze in Blog, Graphic design, Portfolio

I started this project when I was thinking about the differences between my tastes in art and my tastes in graphic design. When it comes to design, I’m a big fan of clean, minimalist work, whereas with art I tend to favour really dark/morbid unclean pieces.

With that in mind I started to wonder how to juxtapose them both, and the following is what I came up with. I used what I could remember from the colour schemes of some of my favourite paintings and applied them to a simple graphic design. Voilá! The links to the paintings are below the images.

Shaft no. 7 — H.R. Giger

The painting this was based on (I couldn’t find any larger images!):

http://www.littlegiger.com/limited/images/063.jpg

Departure — Max Beckmann

The painting this was based on:

http://www.casa-in-italia.com/artpx/moma/images/Beckmann_MOMA_Departure.JPG

Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Innocent X — Francis Bacon

The painting this was based on:

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_study1953.jpg

Modern migration of the spirit — José Clemente Orozco

The painting this was based on:

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/475/PreviewComp/SuperStock_475-2111.jpg

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