“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.” WayIdeasNamesBlackWhiteTalkingSupportColorPaintingPerspectiveProportionBlack And WhiteWorth ItChiaroscuro Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.” HardBlackResultsPaintingRedWineBrownYellowPaleVaryDissatisfaction Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.” ArtUseLightArtistBlackWhiteKnowingObjectsPaintingSkillsConvincedSupremeReliefShadeBlack And White Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!” YearsBlackModernPaintingQueensColourFortyDiscovering Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.” TryingDoneBlackWhitePaintingPreparationBlack And WhiteCartoonAlterations Author:E. J. Hughes
“If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.” IfsTryingFormUsedBlackWhitePaintingSupremeArtisticToneColourDimensionsBlack And WhiteReignArtistic Life Author:David Luiz
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.” LightEarthArtistBlackDarkColorPaintingBluePassingPassingsAtmosphereHorizonRaysRainbowOrangeVioletBlazingIndescribableDark BlueColors Of The RainbowLight Blue Author:Yuri Gagarin
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.” KidsBlackStagePaintingSuitsDramaticSparkleBathingBathing Suits Author:Selena Gomez
“Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.” TurnsBlackPaintingSizePoundsShavingMortarSplintersCharcoal Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.” MadeBlackWhiteInterestingCenturyPaintingLatePhotographMediumsPainterCopiesBlack And WhiteInteresting Things19th Century Author:Robert Longo
“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.” ArtPlayHappensSocialBlackModernPaintingRevolutionRussiaAbstractSquaresRealismPeasantsColorfulAbstract ArtRussian Revolution Author:Robert Longo
“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.” BlackWhiteTeacherHappenedStreetsSubjectsNew YorkPaintingPhotographyLibraryPhotographRanClassroomBlack And WhiteTrashExhibitionsBlack And White Photography Author:Jose Parla
“It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.” PersonsBlackCommunityPaintingHip HopHipsOddHopsNailsMiamiBlack Person Author:SpaceGhostPurrp
“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).” IfsWould BeBlackWhiteSuccessfulColorPaintingAmountLateAreasColourFormulasDotsBlack Or WhiteSmall Amounts Author:Matthew Collings
“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.” ArtYoungGirlBlackTermAbilityWalksInfluenceColorPaintingHistoricalMuseumsBrooklynBlack GirlSpecificity Author:Kehinde Wiley
“You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.” IfsMightBlackPaintingRedneckVelvetYour FavoriteYou Might Be A Redneck IfRedneck HumorChristmas Present Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.” WellsMadeBlackDifferencesKnownPaintingWell KnownNotorious Author:Frank Stella
“People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.” PeopleLanguageBlackPaintingPaintComplexity Author:Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.” IfsWantLooksStillsPoliticalBlackPaintingTypeModelsFruitNarrativeThemeBrownBowlsViewersLenses Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.” YearsHas BeensPastBlackPaintingModelsSkinsBrownBrown Skin Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley