The document discusses warm and cold colors. Warm colors like red, yellow and orange tend to come forward and be in the foreground, while cold colors like green, blue and violet tend to recede into the background. During his Blue Period from 1901-1904, Pablo Picasso produced many expressive paintings using shades of blue. The document provides examples of paintings to illustrate the use of warm and cold colors in the foreground and background.

1. WARM AND COLD COLORS
Foreground - Background

2. Every color has a certain tendency towards what's called warm and cold.

3. Every color has a certain tendency towards what's called warm and cold.

4. Every color has a certain tendency towards what's called warm and cold.

5. Every color has a certain tendency towards what's called warm and cold.

7. WARM COLORS
Red, yellow and orange are traditionally
associated with warm or hot things, like
the shining sun, a glowing sunset or a
roaring fire.
These colors tend to advance towards
the viewer >>>> FOREGROUND.

9. The afternoon nap. Van Gogh

10. Portrait of Adele Bloch. Gustav Klimt

11. COLD COLORS
You can see these kinds of colors in
objects that are naturally cold: green
trees, blue water and sky, violet clouds
on a snowy day.
Cold colors tend to recede into the >>>>
BACKGROUND, to create a calm and quiet
effect.

13. Pablo Picasso appreciated the power of blue.
During his well-known Blue Period (1901-1904), he produced
expressive paintings in a variety of blues.
The old guitarist.
1903 Picasso
The tragedy.
1903, Pablo
Picasso

15. Semaphore

16. WARM COLORS
COLD COLORS
NOT SURE
FOREGROUND
BACKGROUND

17. The afternoon nap. Van Gogh

18. Red room. 1908, Mattisse

20. The State Capitol Building

24. Sky and Water.
M.C. Escher 1988

25. FALSE
TRUE
NOT SURE

26. 1. These are warm colors.

27. 1. These are warm colors.
2. This picture is landscape format.

28. 1. These are warm colors.
2. This picture is landscape format.
3. These are warm colors

29. 1. These are warm colors.
2. This picture is landscape format.
3. These are warm colors
4. This picture is portrait format

30. 5. Picasso painted this picture.

31. 5. Picasso painted this picture.
6. Blue sky is background.

32. 5. Picasso painted this picture.
6. Blue sky is background.
7. This picture is portrait format.

33. 5. Picasso painted this picture.
6. Blue sky is background.
7. This picture is portrait format.
8. This picture is portrait format.

34. 5. Picasso painted this picture.
6. Blue sky is background.
7. This picture is portrait format.
8. This picture is portrait format.
9. This picture uses cold colors.

35. 5. Picasso painted this picture.
6. Blue sky is background.
7. This picture is portrait format.
8. This picture is portrait format.
9. This picture uses cold colors.
10. Van Gogh painted this picture.

36. 11. Matisse painted this picture.

37. 11. Matisse painted this picture.
12. The window is foreground.

38. 11. Matisse painted this picture.
12. The window is foreground.
13. The room is painted in warm
colors.

39. 11. Matisse painted this picture.
12. The window is foreground.
13. The room is painted in warm
colors.
14. This picture is Gustav Klimt’s.

40. 11. Matisse painted this picture.
12. The window is foreground.
13. The room is painted in warm
colors.
14. This picture is Gustav Klimt’s.
15. This picture uses cold colors.

41. 11. Matisse painted this picture.
12. The window is foreground.
13. The room is painted in warm
colors.
14. This picture is Gustav Klimt’s.
15. This picture uses cold colors.
16. This painting is landscape format.

42. 1. These are warm colors. T
2. This picture is landscape format. T
SOLUTIONS
3. These are warm colors. F
4. This picture is portrait format. F
5. Picasso painted this picture. F
6. Blue sky is background. T
7. This picture is portrait format. F
8. This picture is portrait format. T
9. This picture uses cold colors. T
10. Van Gogh painted this picture. F

43. 11. Matisse painted this picture. T
12. The window is foreground. F
SOLUTIONS
13. The room is painted in warm colors. T
14. This picture is Gustav Klimt’s. T
15. This picture uses cold colors. F
16. This painting is landscape format. F

44. Rosa Fernández
2012 – for PLASTINGLISH