intro to level 2 painting
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Level Two PaintingYour subject matter choices will be ;1. Still life2. Local Environment 3. People
• You will need to choose one theme, artist models to match and pictorial concerns.
• This slide show will give you some ideas from traditional art practice and contemporary art.
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).
Still life
Still life traditional
These images were painted a long time ago. The themes explored include the passing of time and how all things are impermanent.
Still life, contemporary
Wayne Thiebaud
Jim Dine
Still life
Local Environment and Still life combined
Local Environment• Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as
mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
• The two main traditions spring from Western and Chinese art going back well over a thousand years in both cases.
• Environments have changed radically over the last few centuries and now city scapes are part of the landscape genre.
Local Environment, Traditional
These images were painted to record cities and the land as photography had not been invented yet. Landscape was also painted to show the beauty of God’s creation.
Diebenkorn
Mehretu
Local environment
People• A Portrait is an artistic representation of a person, in
which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality and even the mood of the person. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.
People, traditional
• The depiction of the human form was used in many Christian art works. Here we see Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist.
• Other reasons to paint people was to record V.I.Ps such as Kings, Popes and landowners. Here we see Napoleon who led the French as Emperor.
Rivers
Clayton Brothers
People