Color Theory Basics for Your Home

Color is a able architecture aspect that badly affects the way we apperceive an autogenous space. Blush approach provides us with rules for bond blush and concepts about the beheld appulse of blush on our moods and emotions. Use this basal adviser to blush approach to actualize able and activating blush schemes aural your interiors.

The blush caster is based on several hierarchies of colors, starting with the primary colors of Red, Chicken and Blue. The accessory colors are created by bond anniversary of these calm to anatomy Orange, Green and Violet. This forms the accustomed ROYGBV spectrum of a rainbow. When we yield the bond action one footfall further, tertiary colors are created in amid anniversary of these, such as Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green and so on.

This caster is disconnected into balmy and algid blush categories. Balmy colors ambit from Red to Yellow, including browns, and are associated with the colors of fire, autumn leaves, and sunset. These colors are generally stimulating, blessed and energetic. Cool colors ambit from Yellow-Green to Red-Violet, including greys, and are associated with water, attributes and trees, and clouded days. These colors are calming, relaxing, and mellow.

Using this blush caster layout, abounding adorable blush schemes can be created. Basal schemes cover Adulatory and Monochromatic. Colors amid on adverse abandon of the caster actualize a Adulatory scheme, such as Red/Green, Blue/Orange, and Violet/Yellow, and are adventurous due to their aciculate contrast, creating "vibrations" amid colors. Monochromatic schemes advance adjoining colors on the caster and tend to be soft, quiet and soothing.

Three colors are acclimated to actualize added circuitous schemes like Triadic and Analogous. Three colors appropriately spaced about the wheel, such as Red/Yellow/Blue or Orange/Green/Violet, actualize a Triadic scheme. Analogous schemes are created by accumulation three adjoining colors, such as Red/Orange/Yellow or Green/Blue/Violet.

Neutral colors cover black, white, grey, brown, beige/tan and cream/ivory. These colors can be alloyed calm or with added colors. They are abundant added afflicted by the colors about them.

Colors accept actual able affecting and cultural connotations and accept a big appulse on how we feel in a space. For instance, reds arm-twist animosity of passion, danger, and anger. Darker reds are generally associated with breeding or importance. Ablaze dejection are airy and calming, while darker dejection are auspicious and generally betoken backbone and reliability.

The attempt of the blush caster can be able accoutrement to accomplish the attending and feel you wish in a room. A soothing, calm haven in a Bedroom can be created application a monochromatic arrangement of white and ablaze blues. Actualize a regal, able and balmy Living Allowance ambience application the adulatory arrangement of rich, abysmal reds and aphotic greens. A Playroom with a Triadic arrangement of red, chicken and dejected will be fun, adventurous and energetic. With these blush approach basics, you can now actualize dynamic, admirable blush schemes in your interiors and arm-twist the affections your admiration in every space.

Rodin's The Thinker

 I recently visited San Francisco and went to the Legion of Honor Museum.  I saw many wonderful works of art but was really happy to get to see one of the bronze casts of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker.  This sculpture has been cast in bronze nearly 25 times and those works are located in a variety of museums and parks throughout the world.  In addition there have also been several smaller versions of the sculpture cast in materials other than bronze.

I personally have also seen Rodin's The Thinker at the Rodin Museum in Paris and the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia and every time I am struck by this profoundly beautiful work.

This is probably the most famous of all of Rodin's sculptures, an image synonymous with the sculptor himself.

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). The Thinker, 1903. Cast bronze, Rodin Museum in Paris

The sculpture was intended to portray the great 14th century Italian author and poet Dante Alighieri.  However it has now been transformed by those who observe it to represent a man in thought, or the idea of the thoughts of humanity.  It was originally called The Poet to refer to Dante.


Rodin undertook an enormous project to create a set of doors for the French Decorative Arts Museum in Paris and the theme for this was the Gates of Hell from Dante's Inferno (from his Divine Comedy), the author's imaginings on hell and afterlife.  Another of Rodin's most famous sculptures, The Kiss, also represents characters from Dante's Inferno, the star crossed lovers Francesca and Paolo.

Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1917, one of the three original bronze casts

 Rodin Sculpture National Museum of Western Art Ueno Taito-ku Tokyo Japan

Like The Thinker or many of Rodin's other bronze sculptures, The Gates of Hell has also been cast many times.  A detail is shown above with The Thinker at the top in the tympanum of the door looking down upon everything.  The entire sculptural work contains 180 figures and this version of The Thinker is much smaller than the more well known over life size work.

This sculpture is a good example of the naturalism that Rodin was famous for.  Take a minute to carefully observe this figure, his muscles, bones and facial expressions are all taken straight from life and nothing is idealized or over dramatized as some works of art were at this time.

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). The Thinker, 1904. Cast bronze

Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 

Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels

Dante is portrayed as being deep in thought in this contemplative pose.  Depending on the sources that I have read over he is either meant to be shown thinking about what he is about to write, what he has written, the fate of those in hell (since it was conceived as a part of The Gates of Hell from Dante's Inferno) or the fate of mankind.  It is certainly possible that he could be thinking about all of those ideas.

Your Art History Blogger in front of Rodin's The Thinker at the Legion of Honor

There are several other works and artists which have been said to have inspired Rodin.  Rodin was influenced quite a bit by the muscular nudes of Michelangelo such as can be seen below from a section of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.  The athletic male nudes that surround each larger fresco have come to be called "ignudi" and the poses of the various ignudi inspired Rodin.  The particular seated pose could also have been inspired by Michelangelo's figure of Lorenzo de'Medici from the Medici family tomb in San Lorenzo in Florence.


Another source of inspiration was said to have come from the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's statue of Ugolino.  Ugolino was another character from the Inferno and he met his end by starving to death while imprisoned.

Rodin had spoken frequently of his debt to Michelangelo's work.  During his lifetime he traveled to Florence and had visited the Casa Buonarroti which is a museum honoring the Renaissance master.

God Separating Darkness and Light, Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican, 1508-12 

 Ugolino, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1867-1869) Petit Palais, Paris

 Gift of Louise Clément-Carpeaux, daughter of the artist, 1938

In addition to The Thinker, which sits outside in the entrance courtyard,  The Legion of Honor has a gallery devoted to the beautiful sculptures of Auguste Rodin.  I recommend that anyone who is visiting San Francisco should take a tour through this museum.

Suggested Reading:
Fergonzi, Flavio. Miaria Mimita Lamberti, Pina Ragionieri and Christopher Riopelle. Rodin and Michelangelo, A study in Artistic Inspiration. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1996.

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