At the beginning of the year, Pantone, the authoritative color agency, released the popular color for 2023 - "Extraordinary Magenta" (Viva Magenta 18-1750), a vibrant shade from the red system to bring in the new year joy and anticipation for the new year.
At the beginning of the New Year, this energetic red represents vitality, confidence and courage, and brings a new energy to 2023.
"Extraordinary Magenta" comes from the red family, inspired by carmine, the world's brightest dye.
Before the invention of artificial magenta in 1859, the dye derived from carmine was one of the most precious and intense natural dyes in the color family.
Compared to the powerful impact energy of carmine, "Extraordinary Magenta" emphasizes character and vitality.
A fusion of purple pink and light red, "Extraordinary Magenta" is an inherent expression of optimism and openness, thus creating an inspirational force for people.
Because of the gradual dispersal of the epidemic, more and more people in the city can't wait to start a new life and enthusiastically look forward to regaining their long-lost enthusiasm and revelry, the color essence of "Extraordinary Magenta" invariably hides the applause for this series of positive changes.
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Back in the 15th century, King Charles V of Spain received a gift from the Aztec Empire - a gorgeous red cloth dyed with cochineal.
So saturated with red that the king was deeply impressed, he immediately wrote to Cortés to bring the dye back to Europe.
From then on, this mysterious red dye made Spain rich and sparked a red boom in Europe.
Mexican painter Frida Caro was also a big fan of magenta
Art history is replete with painters who loved the extraordinary magenta color, such as Picasso's famous "Rose Period".
In the spring of 1904, Picasso settled permanently in the Montmartre district of Paris, and his blue period came to an end when he moved to Paris and lived with Fernandes.
Soft pink tones began to permeate the single blue of his canvases, which soon became the dominant color on his canvases.
Picasso's "House of Circus Performers with Monkeys" 1922
The warm, dainty rose-red replaced the hollow, abstract, heavy, depressive blue.
Youth and love come alive in the images, often with youthful or stout figures.
Thus began his "rose-colored period," a world of vagabond entertainers and acrobats, also known as the "circus style.
Picasso, "Clown on a Red Background" 1905
The Boy with a Pipe" is Picasso's masterpiece, which has passed the blue melancholy period and entered the pink period.
The power of color does not come from the color itself, but from the multiple reactions of the eyes and the mind. The power of Picasso's "rose color" is soft and firm, and the ambiguous colors reflect his indulgence in the sweetness of love.
Picasso, "Boy with a Pipe" 1905
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Throughout history, both in the East and the West, the color red has always been honored, representing gods, kings, and power.
The masters of the Renaissance had their own ideas about how to use the color red.
Titian, the father of Western oil painting, liked to use red as a base and then paint with other colors, so that the oil painting had a faint sense of redness, and this technique was also called "Titian Red".
Titian "Man in Red Hat" 1516
Titian's "Cardinal
As a representative figure of the Venetian School, Titian brought red to another pinnacle of Western color art.
Very adept at handling color and light, Titian used rich and bright colors that have endured through the centuries, yet still represent trends and have never faded.
At the time, Titian was the only one in the whole of Italy who could mix this kind of red. The emergence of Titian red even influenced and promoted the history of European art.
Titian "Queen Isabel of Spain
Titian "Pope Paul III
Besides, Raphael and Rubens both liked to use carmine red to express the rich layers of the picture.
Raphael mastered the gestures and color changes of the figures skillfully, and his use of red and blue achieved a balance of warm and cool colors with each other, while matching the warm colors, making the picture full of a sense of tranquility and solemnity.
Raphael "Pope Julio II" 1512
Collection at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Raphael's paintings are known for their "beauty", with their clean figures and peaceful scenes.
He took his cues from the techniques of the masters of his time and used his favorite hint of red to create a soft, rounded, full-bodied harmony.
Raphael's "Notice of Conception
Raphael's Allegory 1504
Collection in the National Gallery of England
Raphael's Madonna series is a rare masterpiece in the history of art.
His secularized approach depicts traditional religious subjects as ideal beauty in real life, celebrating the glory of general human linearity, overflowing with happiness and joy, and reflecting his humanist ideology even more.
Raphael, Madonna in the Meadow 1505
Collection in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Raphael's art, later known as "classicism," not only inspired the Baroque style, but also had a profound influence on the French classical school of the 17th century.
Raphael's "Triumph of Galatea" 1512-1514
Collection in Palazzo Falegna, Rome, Italy
Baroque painting style, with strong contrast between light and dark, full of color, ornate decoration, emotional exuberance and passion, full of movement, carmine is their perfect choice of red.
Rubens "Isabella Brandt
Rubens' "Suzanne Fuhrmann
As a representative of the early Baroque school, Rubens' painting style is spontaneous and integral, combining the high skills and humanist ideas of Renaissance art with the ancient national art tradition of Flanders. The unique carmine red forms a unique style that passionately celebrates the joy of life with grandeur, rich colors and a strong sense of movement.
Rubens' reputation in the European art world continued throughout his life, with commissions of all sizes coming in from Italy, Spain, France, England, Germany, and his native southern Netherland.
Rubens' Samson and Delilah
Rubens, "Christ Descending from the Cross
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Modigliani of China" Mr. Changyu, throughout his life, insisted on his own way and pursued spiritual freedom.
He always paints with a child's heart, not with "common sense", but as he pleases, painting his likes and dislikes, his moods.
Changyu's works
The carmine red in his works is just like Changyu himself, who was born rich and a prodigal son, and his paintings are always warm and gorgeous, colorful and happy.
Before the age of 30, Changyu did not need to worry about money at all, because the money sent by his brother enabled him to live a life of luxury and prosperity in Paris.
At that time, he was a refined young man, well-dressed, with a love of literature and art, and he used to hang out in the street cafes to read and paint.
Changyu's works
He loved to paint women, all of whom had graceful and beautiful bodies, rich but not gaudy, more agile and natural.
A splash of blush color clearly reveals his mental agitation, freedom and happiness.
Chang Yu's "Sketches of the Human Body
Wu Guanzhong once said of Changyu: "Whether it is a person, a flower or an animal, all seem to be immersed in a light pink dream. The dream makes people fall into the faint ink marks dyed on the plain white rice paper. Undoubtedly, the rice paper of the homeland nurtured the young Changyu, and this is the fragrance of mother's milk that will never go away."
From a wealthy young man to a Parisian drifter, he is the Chinese artist who painted the most beautiful colors of rouge.
Changyu's works
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From painting to the innovation of art medium, "extraordinary magenta" is one of the most common colors in neon installation art due to the strong contrast, the ambiguous red ghostly light seems to convey a love letter from the artist to the world.
Tracy Emin, known as the "bad girl" of the art world, no one knew more about the humiliation and injustice of love than she did, and no one was more thirsty for the life and years of love than she was.
Elizabeth II honors Tracy Emin with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
The neon installation series is one of the most interesting works of Tracy Emin's art, in which she uses her handwritten words in the form of neon lights, the content of which reveals her rich and vulnerable inner world.
While Tracy Emin's early neon series were more aggressive, her later works show more gentleness, love, beauty and a positive emotion.
The message of love is slowly written by an invisible hand, as the soft electronic glow gradually transforms into an intense magenta color.
The neon light is her handwritten confession.
She arranges simple and intimate words together, and the soft colored light spells out glowing thoughts and feelings: passion, love, declaration, disappointment, fear, or insult.
The protagonist behind the scenes is always Emin herself: her loss, her longing, her experiences, her confusion, and her anger.
The Neon Light Installation series allows us to see a different Tracy Emin, a work in which she is no longer decadent, confused and negative, but sees life and the world with a positive attitude.
As she says, "Neon is sensual for everyone, neon and argon make us positive."
The Pantone pop color at the beginning of each year is a kind of "opener" for the newborn fashion.
You can also see the "extraordinary magenta" in fashion, beauty and home. As long as this color is in your eyes, you can feel the exciting expression overflowing from the screen, and also make people who need help feel warm and kind.
Extraordinary magenta is brave and fearless, a pulsating color, its prosperity promotes optimism and celebration, just like the strongest evening sunset on a winter evening, bright and passionate but not overpowering, rebellious and bold with a little tenderness.
It is taking a positive attitude, infecting every person who is running hard for life.
Vibrant, passionate, brave and fearless ..... .2023 popular colors are writing a new chapter.
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