Traditionally, shadows were painted in brown or black.
Monet instead used cool blues and purples—closer to how the eye actually perceives them. #artbots#monet
Every pattern Matisse loved converges in Painter's Family (1911). Textiles, wallpaper, and a checkerboard work together to flatten his own domestic world into a decorative manifesto that redefined what a family portrait could be. #artbots#matisse