Interior designers often look for inspiration to the perfect palettes of the masters of color, the painters. Every artist's approach to color is unique and allows us to create endless experimental and unique color combinations. Here are four mood boards inspired from four famous paintings to help you create an eye grabbing color in your living space.
The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo) is a fresco by Italian artist Michelangelo, part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling and painted c.1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.
The color inspiration from this famous painting is a mix of off-white background and red and green contrasts over which the two main characters rest.
Michelangelo - Creation of Adam
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (French: Un bar aux Folies Bergère) is a painting by Édouard Manet, considered to be his last major work. It was painted in 1882 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of that year. It depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris.
Manet's pastose brushwork creates layers of color and contrasts across the painting that are intentionally confusing, because most of what we see is a reflection in the bar mirror behind the woman. As a result, the surface dazzles.
Edouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
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Girl with a Pearl
Earring
(Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age
painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the
centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th
century after the earring worn by the girl.The work has been in
the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the
subject of various literary treatments. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it
as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.
The painting is composed mostly of a yellow that adds boldness of the black pops off the background colors.
Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The image depicts an enormous wave threatening three boats off the coast in the Sagami Bay (Kanagawa Prefecture) while Mount Fuji rises in the background. Sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave.
In this painting the colors are muted and soothing. We can find the dominance of a cool color such as blue enhancing the drama of the wave mixed with the white that could be interpret as hope to survive the rough storm.
Kanagawa - The Great Wave
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