![]() One color paintings series#Before we get deeper into Ad’s intention with these paintings let’s take a look at how he painted them and why his series of “Untitled Black Paintings” are in fact not black at all. For me, these are some of the most exciting paintings with the most boring descriptions of all time. Who knows, maybe you’ll end up falling in love too. Keep reading to find out what’s the reason for the artist’s big success with these black paintings. I have loved these black squares ever since. Until I managed to see one in person in New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and read up on Ad’s thoughts behind the painting and his stance on modern art in general. If you think that this is one of the most pretentious things you have ever heard, or that Ad Reinhardt found an easy way to make money from stuck-up art collectors by selling them black squares you are not alone. Image credit & copyright: Estate of Ad Reinhardt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, New YorkĪd Reinhardt’s paintings regularly yield prices between two to three million US dollars. He painted multiple paintings in this style – and people are paying millions of dollars for them. 60’’ by 60’’ canvases painted entirely in black. ![]() Yup – the paintings you see below are Reinhardt’s most famous work. While his early work looks a little bit like the scribble-and-fill artwork we all produced with MS Paint on our parent’s PCs when we were children, he is most famous for his later works: big canvases filled with blocks of almost the same color. ![]() Image credit & copyright: Estate of Ad Reinhardt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, New York He produced abstract art right from the start and was a member of the American Abstract Artists organization. So who is that guy? Ad Reinhardt was born in 1913 and worked in New York City for most of his life. ![]() 2.3 The Twelve Technical Rules of Ad Reinhardt.2 Art As Art – Ad Reinhardt’s Philosophy.1.1 The Black Paintings of Ad Reinhardt.To understand it can take time, which is why we try to bring you the best in simple effective steps. And there’s just so much more you can do with Photoshop. Doing this presents a fun, simple, and effective way to take some of those culled photos, if you like, and make them into something different something more. We recently spoke about culling your photos and how necessary it is. Upon arriving here, your photo may not look just as you’d like it, but you’ll actually be quite close to the original, and testing out and playing with the three sliders present an ability to fine tune it as you would like.Īs another example I took an image of me and my dog Walter, and took the caste from the famous painting, ‘Liberty Leading The People,’ and the results are interesting, and pleasant. You’ll then be presented with the following screen.įrom here select ‘ Source‘ and choose the other photo you are taking the cast from. Then select Image>Adjustments>Match Color. In the first scenario We’ll use a photo I took testing out my Sony RX100 firing a Nikon SB700 (which worked easily), and taking the color cast from The Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue commercial, taken by Mario Testino and starring David Gandy and Bianca Balti. (The order doesn’t matter and you can open many images at once if you’d like). Open the image you want to take the color cast from, and then the photo of yours you’d like to receive it. Note* While the process is simple in essence, there may be a level of manipulation you need to do to achieve just the look you want, but we’ll address that here also. And it’s also quite brilliant because you can use color palettes from photos of famous paintings in your own images. But what if you don’t have the precise filter? Or what if you have a photo you would like to transpose a color palette from into another? With Photoshop, of course, it couldn’t be simpler. With the advent of Instagram and filter sets, photos today can be made to look drastically different and convey different moods, just from filters. This isn’t a bad thing at all, and one of the methods I actually use is to essentially take a color cast from one photo, and utilize it in another. More often than not they will, like a pill, slow release the work they do in pieces, and then they’ll often crop photos down, and manipulate them so they seem ‘new’ and fresh. This is great for us the viewer, who get to see more from the people we follow, but it does make you wonder how much shooting these guys do in order to produce content each day. If you’re on Instagram, or follow certain blogs of photographers, you’ll see that they seem to have an almost interminable stream of ‘new’ material that they garnish their sites with. ![]()
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