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W Rossine Self Portrait 1907 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Baranov-Rossine
Roger I can see color, but don't understand why the green on the forehead. Can you explain this one!
Myrna
Great question Myrna. It reall depends what the artist either saw or wanted to show. Many paintings of human flesh have a strong use of blue. Although many people automatically think that the skin of a white person is pink it is rarely so as is the case of a black people's images where huge variations of browns and blacks and blues are apparent when you look closely. The artist here has used blocks of colour rather than lines to bring about the variations of tone in his image. He probably chose a pallete where he used a mixture of red and blue variations to get the different tonal features to bring about a likeness. Where light reflects off of the face that he sees in the mirror he may have thought that there was a cold colour of reflection and so went as far away from the warm reds as he could. All of the colours on this painting can be made from just a shade of red or blue and its what makes it so clever. One thing is for sure. When you look at the picture the green/blue patch that you talk about brings your eyes straight to the eyes on the painting. If that is really true then the green/blue does the job. Roger
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