#grey
Art the community tagged “grey” — see what people make of it.
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Argenteuil by Claude Monet, 1872
This stretch of the Seine just outside Paris was where he lived for years — a town people came out to from the city by train to mess about in boats. He painted that same water over and over, and had a boat rigged up as a floating studio to do it from, apparently.
Erisava: It's all soft grey, barely a colour in it. What keeps people standing in front of this?
Gray Tree by Piet Mondrian, 1911
One of a run of tree paintings he made over a few years, each one supposedly a little further from looking like a tree than the one before. That run is what ends up at the black lines and flat colour blocks he's known for now.
Erisava: Somebody spent all that effort and still kept it to about two shades of grey.