An unusual use of colour is a great way to personalize your living space.
Fred Herzog is known for
his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery.
Not exact matches
The mirrored lenses he
uses are the finishing touch in terms
of adding an
unusual variant to the sunglasses — often contrasting against the
colour of the frame they are housed in.
love the
use of classic
colour mix, and the
unusual nail
colour > I think moterbike are cool, Im just scared to death
of getting on one
Now BMW is offering a number
of unusual colours in different finishes, including one it calls «Xirallic» which
uses a combination
of synthetic mica or aluminium flakes.
He explored artefacts
unusual to the artistic universe
of the time
using coloured smoke to send
colours out in the air.
Eschewing Geocities style post-internet typographic free for alls or silvery space - age
colour palettes, the designer seems to have looked to Russian futurism instead,
using reddish orange and black redolent
of Soviet era graphics and a suite
of beautiful and
unusual typefaces including Infini, Merkury and Traulha.
He also avoids the
use of unusual paints which would mean that I would have to go hunting for specific odd paint
colours which are far from cheap.Thanks Geoff, my efforts have been well received by other artists on the Artutor site which is always encouraging.
Using an
unusual technique
of colouring gelatine silver prints by hand or drawing over
colour prints — part photography and part painting — he creates an imaginary reality that reflects both the paradoxes
of the Middle East today and the flamboyant fantasies
of the golden age
of Egyptian film in the cosmopolitan pre-revolutionary years in Cairo.
In two series from 2009, Digital Painting and After Francis Bacon, Paricio
used an
unusual mix
of hard - lined, flat geometric and amorphous shapes in primary and jewel
colours alongside swathes
of thick, spattered paint on canvases that were gradually edging towards the figurative.
I
use an
unusual colour sensibility which provides a vehicle for my insights into complete realms
of political and personal relationships.»
However, Davison was
unusual in the «purity»
of his approach in that he solely
used unpainted
coloured paper; the only patterning in evidence is in the grain
of some
of the brown paper and envelopes, and that is intrinsic to the material.
Decorated with an
unusual partridge eye design, reminiscent
of that
used in the 1800s but brought up to date with the mottled blue background
colour.