Brown Framed Art
Brown is probably not the most glamorous color, but talented artists managed to create masterpieces with a stroke of their brushes. The color of rich soil and wood , it is one of the composition colors and it has a special symbolism, as people associate it with the idea of poverty, humility and overall plainness.
The framed Brown artwork depicting the Franciscan monks of the Middle Ages abound in this color, as they wore brown robes. Even though the vast majority of painters back then focused on depicting the noblemen and rich people, there are some great prints celebrating the common folk. During the Renaissance, things changed for the better and we’ve got some fascinating drawings belonging to Leonardo da Vinci and paintings authored by Jan van Eyck such as the Portrait de Baudoin de Lannoy.
Brown is also an excellent color for depicting nature, with many of the framed brown art prints highlighting the richness of autumn harvest. Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Rubens used it extensively when painting forests some of them created special colors, such as the famous Van Dyck brown. Rembrandt started to use it more and more as he aged, with Titus as a Monk being one of the paintings that can prove this trend. Even though French Impressionists were not impressed by brown and frowned upon the idea of using it, Paul Gauguin changed all that when painting the nature of French Polynesia.