Still life will be the topic through which the main focus will be on developing my understanding of colour. I do hope to revisit my attempts in the first part with the aloe in the glass pot, as I will end off this part with a still life. RESEARCH POINT 1 The representation which the […]
BASICS OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE I need to make some notes in my learning log, and being mindful that we will look at perspective in Part Four again. There are many types of perspective. To name but a few: aerial perspective, frontal perspective (or 1-point perspective), angular perspective (or 2-points perspective or oblique view), perspectives with […]
INTERIORS BY DUTCH REALIST GENRE PAINTERS Traditionally, genre painting is understood as the art of the everyday – and it’s something, the history of art tells us, at which Dutch Golden Age painters excelled. On the Museum Del Prada website I read that the Dutch Genre painters made small sized paintings of interiors ( 45.7×40.6) […]
Optical effects as used by the Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists in their optical mixing. Also view the work of Bridget Riley or the Op artists. My first thoughts is about the Impressionists painting on site – the plein air technique. They sought to capture the optical effects of light in order to convey the passage […]
Here I will do the exercises as in the study guide from pages 57 to 62. I read that our first exercise has to focus on an arrangement of objects, found in my house, that just happens to be there. What an interesting take! It could be in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom…..time to observe and […]
I appreciate the overall comments as they are encouraging me to develop my own painting process. My idea is to submit my work for assessment as part of the process to obtain a BA Hon in Fine Arts. With regards to my assignment painting of the baobab tree in the O’Keefe style I gave some […]
PROJECT BASIC PAINT APPLICATION I am intrigued by the painting example under the heading, Introduction. This work reminds me of Adrian Ghenie – but it is the colours, not the way the paint is applied – and this part of the course will focus on application of paint. ( I added an extra blog […]
For this first assignment I am still drawn to the previous work with the baobab trees. I asked a friend who is to lucky to have a baobab in her garden and on in the middle of the street in front of her house in South Africa, to send some pictures of different perspectives – […]
Rembrandt Doing the research topic on Chiaroscuro earlier, I read that examinations of Rembrandt’s paintings show that the artist used middle-tone grounds, which allowed rapid painting. He only applied dark and light tones, leaving the mid-tones of the ground. Most of his canvases are primed with a double ground, the first layer of which is […]
Below are the pavillions I visited on 26 September 2019. I am still busy finishing the writing and comparing it with my notes and photos. I added the list in the meantime. Switzerland Their installation is called Moving Backwards – a video in an environment of a dance/night club the performers are dancing and moving, […]