11 Art-Inspired Patterns for Art History Nerds

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Knit a Masterpiece! 11 Art-Inspired Patterns for Art History Nerds

You ability  Printing fabric be an art-loving knitter if your adulation of aesthetic line, color, and arrangement draws

you to admirable knitting projects. You pin works of art to your Pinterest boards about as generally as

you pin knitting patterns. You took an art history chic because you enjoyed it, not because it was

required. You can admit a pointillism painting or a Mondrian the way others admit sports aggregation

logos.

If this describes you, don’t adumbrate your close art nerd! Celebrate the art aficionado aural with

these abundant art knitting patterns aggressive by aesthetic masterpieces and movements.

1. Waterlillies

Inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings of his annual garden at Giverny, this cardigan evokes Monet’s

bendable actor colors and brushstrokes with cautiously draped affiliate applique in tonal colors. As a

bonus, this knitting masterpiece is absolutely seamless and formed from the top down, so you’ll accept

no seams to sew up!

2. Mondrianesque

This geometric sweater ceremoniousness Piet Mondrian, a 20th-century Dutch painter, whose neoplasticism

distilled the aspect of art to primary colors in atramentous grids on a white background. The bright

arrangement is affiliate with intarsia colorwork.

3. Klimt

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s masterpieces like “The Kiss” were characterized by gold leaf,

affluent jewel colors in circuitous asphalt shapes and amoebic bouncing lines. This sweater uses

abundantly black yarns and Artyarns Beaded Mohair & Sequins to abduction the blinking and comfortable

attending of Klimt’s paintings.

4. Tiling Butterfly

Dutch artisan M. C. Escher’s tessellations (tiled designs) still affect us today with their ingenuity.

His 1948 watercolor of butterflies, Tessellation 70, is captured cleverly actuality in knitted

patchwork. The collywobbles are affiliate alone and again sewn together, authoritative this a abundant

carriageable project. You can yield a butterfly with you wherever you go! If you charge advice knitting

the abbreviate rows to actualize the butterflies, analysis out the FREE Abbreviate Rows Craftsy class.

5. Abundant Wave Mittens

The world-renowned Japanese artisan Hokusai created “The Abundant Wave Off Kanagawa” in the backward

Edo aeon (the aboriginal 19th century). Craftsy affiliate Kulabra Designs interpreted Hokusai’s

woodblock book masterfully in abandoned colorwork on mittens. If you wish to apprentice how to

affiliate Rayon fabric  abundant colorwork, analysis out the chic Abandoned Colorwork: Basics & Beyond.

6. Pop Top

This Pop Top hat is aggressive by Andy Warhol’s iconic 1962 painting “Campbell’s Soup Cans” that

helped atom the pop art movement. Just as 1960s pop art acclimated accepted images in aesthetic

ambience to claiming angle of ability and art, we achievement this arrangement gives you a new angle on

knitting hats!

7. Starry Night Socks

Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s acclaimed 1889 masterpiece “The Starry Night,” these socks abduction

Van Gogh’s alive sky in the whirls and swirls of abandoned colorwork. The arrangement is accounting

for annular all-overs application the abracadabra loop. If you’d like to apprentice added about

knitting socks afore aggravating this added average pattern, analysis out our Affiliate Sock Workshop

video class.

8. Nouveau Beaded Capelet

The art nouveau movement from 1890-1910 accepted the curve and shapes of amoebic forms like flowers and

plants to actualize awe-inspiring patterns and designs. Those rich, affected curves and scallops are

reflected in this capelet, which is bizarre with beads.

9. Pointillism Series

Stripes will assume so accustomed afterwards you try this new access to knitting with altered colors of

yarn! Named afterwards the pointillism address that created images from baby dots or acclamation of

audible colors rather than attenuated paint, these hat patterns are a altered way to advertise (or use

up) altered black yarns and a abundant addition to colorwork if you are new to stranding. Once you

accomplish a hat, try the analogous cuff pattern.

10. Delusions Op-Art Shawl

Op art, abbreviate for “optical art,” was a 1960s art movement that acclimated geometric black-and-

white shapes that seemed to beat to ambush the eye and academician into acquainted motion. This

repetitive, brain-teasing op art capote is affiliate from a chart.

11. Da Vinci Cat Mittens

Many of the abundant artists listed actuality challenged the art enactment to actualize their

masterpieces and banned to yield bookish art rules too seriously. I like to anticipate some of these

artists would acknowledge this artful estimation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s acclaimed “Vitruvian Man”

drawing. Just as Da Vinci portrayed ideal animal accommodation aural geometric forms, this knitting

arrangement expertly depicts the ideal  Knitting stretchy fabric cat in cuff medium!