These pie charts, created by Arthur Buxton, show the five most common colours in 28 of van Gogh’s most famous paintings (the size of the slice is the percentage of the painting it comprises). It shows van Gogh’s love for warm colours, yellows, browns, blues and greys. Such an intriguing idea as it really highlights how many artists and designers have a common colour palette from which they draw a lot of their work. I would love to see this idea expanding upon so we could find common themes among other icons. I bet Andy Warhol’s pie charts would be brilliant!
(image via arthur buxton)
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Fascinating, bring on more! Warhol would be amazing to see!
Great postings!
Really interesting. He was influenced by the blues and ochres of the landscape around him most of all, but I can’t help but wonder if part of his color choices had to do with the fact that other pigments were more expensive and he was broke all of his life? Just food for thought…
It’s amazing how iconic work can often come to be from financial limitations as well as personal taste. Thanks for the fantastic point!
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