Colour Lisa: Meet the Colour Palettes Based on Famous Painters

Immerse yourself in the tones that defined art history with Color Lisa, revealing the palettes of famous painters

With which colours would you associate Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí? Color Lisa was born as a mix between play and love for art and colours (specifically, colour palettes).

This page is an exhaustive work that results in a selected list of colour palettes based on masterpieces of the most important artists in the world. Its creator is Ryan McGuire, an artist, photographer, designer and colour lover who is accompanied by other colour-obsessed designers, artists, museum curators and masters of colour theory. Between them, they painstakingly create each palette and constantly add new palettes to keep the site up to date.

How can you use this site? In many ways, it can be your place of inspiration, a place to colour your next project if you want it to hide the essence of a specific artist, or you can use it simply as a game, I myself have spent some time while writing this article thinking about an artist and what colours I would relate to their most representative paintings.

What is a colour palette?

If you've come this far and you're not entirely clear on what a colour palette is, don't go away, because we're going to tell you. A colour palette is a specific collection of colours used in a design, artwork, user interface, website, brand or any other context where a cohesive and harmonious selection of colours is needed. These palettes are usually composed of several colours that complement each other and are chosen with the aim of conveying certain emotions, creating a specific mood or fulfilling certain design requirements.

Colour palettes can be created by graphic designers, artists, web developers or anyone involved in the creation of visual content. In addition, there are online tools and resources that help to generate colour palettes in an automated way or provide inspiration for their creation.

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