Pantone Color Of The Year.

yes, each year a selected group of "color experts" people who work in interior design, textile, paints would get together to forecast the color trend of the coming year..A woman in Toronto who who is the color expert for a major paint manufacture was in that group(.not sure she still on it).
By the way, this year color is: "rose quartz" and I was surprised this painting was feature for the color by another art site which I can't name.

Rose Quartz.......is a gorgeous colour....................

There are two colors this year:

ROSE QUARTZ & SERENITY
PANTONE 13-1520 & PANTONE 15-3919
A softer take on color for 2016: For the first time, the blending of two shades – Rose Quartz and Serenity are chosen as the PANTONE Color of the Year

http://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2016

Rose Quartz like....

Basically, this year's colors are pink and blue. . . i won't be redecorating this year.

Predictions based on what, I wonder? I noticed a trend about 10 years ago. Whatever color was big in fashion would show up in home decor a few years down the line. I think it starts with fashion, but I haven't been keeping up lately. I could be totally wrong, but I did keep noticing this happening... back then.

I wonder if they predicted tangerine. That's a huge color now. I see it everywhere! In the 2013 movie "Her," that color was practically the star of the show.

Lol, I thought that, too, Wendy!

Patricia,

Tangerine was the 2012 Color of the Year --

https://www.pantone.com/pantone-tangerine-tango-journal

I remember it with fondness, as I sold this set about a dozen times. Sure hope they're not all in dumpsters, now that the trend has moved on!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/dream-a-little-dream-wendy-j-st-christopher.html
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sorbet-wendy-j-st-christopher.html

I always resent the notion that some clique of designers will decide which colors will be "in" this year. Beautiful art is beautiful regardless of the year or the fashion. Just sayin'. Not that I have anything against rose quartz. But in my mind, it's no better than a rainbow of other colors, and a few that aren't in the rainbow at all. There just seems to be a bit of insufferable something* here. Who died and made these folks the God of Art?

*something = chutzpah, ego, pride, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, conceitedness, self aggrandizement, ...

...

Well, there's a practical reason for it, as far as industry is concerned. When the Color Mafia make decisions together about color, and standardize it, they can assure that their merchandise will co-ordinate. The down side of it is that they change color palettes seasonally, as well as annually, so that things can look dated very quickly. The gullible will grab it up because last year's yellow isn't this year's yellow. That's how "The Little Black Dress" came to be--keep the basics, but accessorize on trend.

Oh, and it doesn't have anything to do with "ART," it's about home decor, clothing, advertising, etc.

So I'm going to throw out last year's rug, couch, and art because this year they aren't hip? Give me a break! Maybe this reduces somebody's inventory, and churns the sales of material goods, but it seems the crassest sort of commercialism imaginable. Well, not really. I see worse all the time.

Another thought: how good is an artist who lets other people decide the colors on his palate?

Doffs curmudgeon hat, bows, exits thread.

Wendy, I'm sure those gorgeous pieces are still valued. Trends in decorating take a lot longer to die than trends in fashion (which change at head-spinning speed). I'll probably never tire of tangerine, though, because it is so uplifting and cheery! Rose quartz seems to be more muted, but certainly beautiful.

Well here is an artist who understands Rose Quartz.







Cool work, Patricia. I don't see much tangerine, but I don't know what that color is either unless it's deep bright orange.

I always figured trends in decorating are mainly interesting to:

Real estate agents who are trying to sell houses. The real estate agents have to counsel sellers to update their houses in ways that are appealing to people who want to buy up to date houses... whatever that means this week.
and
Sales people who entertain at their houses, and want their clients to think they are fashionable. This includes sales people who have other job titles, but bring people over to their houses hoping to to get them to buy something.

Most of the rest of us either use our kitchens / bathrooms / other rooms, and don't want to have to arrange our lives around workmen and renovations if we can avoid it, or have more pressing uses for our money than making our houses look like the latest issue of a Designer Houses R Us catalog.

That said, I like Rose Quartz, as a color, so I might try painting something in that color.

Thank you, Lisa! I guess I must really like rose quartz, lol. I wasn't even aware of it. I think of tangerine as like orange but more like sherbet. I could be wrong. I'm not a painter.

Your work is full of the colors of this year, Patricia. Maybe you should use these colors as descriptive key words. I think you make the color lovely. It's lovely and your images are full of ambient atmospheric esoteric beauty... and that is what people want hanging on their walls!

I'm only noticing as I'm in competition for the new upcoming generation that has the money and expertise to choose this kind of quality in artwork.

Thanks for the tip! I will add rose quartz as a key word and let you know if I get any sales.

A woman named Leatrice Eiseman who is a color specialist and lives on Bainbridge Island, WA has been selecting the colors for years. She travels all over the world looks at mostly fashion trends and what has been then decides on what should be.

While Pantone the color for decades and anyone can look it up I don't think many people look for the info directly. Most just see it's impact.