This Is What Makes Art So Fabulous!...
Written by Anna Meenaghan
Saturday, 20 June 2009 07:31
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| Art today covers so many things. The choices that you have are endless, so there is something to suit everybody's taste. So much we can learn about it from looking at the Masters. However, you can app | |
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by AnnaMeenaghan Art today covers so many things. The choices that you have are endless, so there is something to suit everybody's taste. So much we can learn about it from looking at the Masters. However, you can appreciate art even if you are a beginner to it all. As a race the Chinese and Japanese generally use black and white to express themselves. Very cleverly they use brushes for both their writings and their drawings. Brushes, in fact, made of hair with a very fine point, ideal for their delicate work, with a bamboo handle. How fantastic then were the actual paintings of Z |
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ing at the Masters. However, you can appreciate art even if you are a beginner to it all. As a race the Chinese and Japanese generally use black and white to express themselves. Very cleverly they use brushes for both their writings and their drawings. Brushes, in fact, made of hair with a very fine point, ideal for their delicate work, with a bamboo handle. How fantastic then were the actual paintings of Zen. We need to look no further to have an appreciation of this type of art. When they draw and paint they brush on a wash before they paint later carefully with ink. The long fine brushes they use seem to create lovely flowing works of art which appear so true to form and give out the freedom of movement. Naturally this works well on silk. The trees and waters are expressed well like this. Expressionism as we know it is not necessarily a true representational art form. Really I would go as far as to say, it is how you express your inner feelings on a given subject emotionally. So many odd shapes which also often appears very unusual and hard to understand. Van Gogh seemed to have it right expressing his strange feelings on any amount of different subjects. How often we all admire the works of Monet and his wonderful landscapes amongst other pictures. Interestingly enough they appear as a series of dots and dashes which then form the picture. This is called Impressionism. Probably this art style dates back to the 19th Century. The light plays an important part of the completed picture and this style works well with landscapes. Still Life painting often is often done with simple everyday life objects. A few examples to name are; a bowl of fruit, bread and cheese, a gl*** of wine and a carafe, or even a cauliflower or onions. Simple items are not always easy to reproduce and you need a good backdrop f |
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ing at the Masters. However, you can appreciate art even if you are a beginner to it all. As a race the Chinese and Japanese generally use black and white to express themselves. Very cleverly they use brushes for both their writings and their drawings. Brushes, in fact, made of hair with a very fine point, ideal for their delicate work, with a bamboo handle. How fantastic then were the actual paintings of Zen. We need to look no further to have an appreciation of this type of art. When they draw and paint they brush on a wash before they paint later carefully with ink. The long fine brushes they use seem to create lovely flowing works of art which appear so true to form and |
| Art today covers so many things. The choices that you have are endless, so there is something to suit everybody's taste. So much we can learn about it from looking at the Masters. However, you can appreciate art even if you are a beginner to it all.
by AnnaMeenaghan Art today covers so many things. The choices that you have are endless, so there is something to suit everybody's taste. So much we can learn about it from looking at the Masters. However, you can appreciate art even if you are a beginner to it all. As a race the Chinese and Japanese generally use black and white to express themselves. Very cleverly they use brushes for both their writings and their drawings. Brushes, in fact, made of hair with a very fine point, ideal for their delicate work, with a bamboo handle. How fantastic then were the actual paintings of Zen. We need to look no further to have an appreciation of this type of art. When they draw and paint they brush on a wash before they paint later carefully with ink. The long fine brushes they use seem to create lovely flowing works of art which appear so true to form and give out the freedom of movement. Naturally this works well on silk. The trees and waters are expressed well like this. Expressionism as we know it is not necessarily a true representational art form. Really I would go as far as to say, it is how you express your inner feelings on a given subject emotionally. So many odd shapes which also often appears very unusual and hard to understand. Van Gogh seemed to have it right expressing his strange feelings on any amount of different subjects. How often we all admire the works of Monet and his wonderful landscapes amongst other pictures. Interestingly enough they appear as a series of dots and dashes which then form the picture. This is called Impressionism. Probably this art style dates back to the 19th Century. The light plays an important part of the completed picture and this style works well with landscapes. Still Life painting often is often done with simple everyday life objects. A few examples to name are; a bowl of fruit, bread and cheese, a gl*** of wine and a carafe, or even a cauliflower or onions. Simple items are not always easy to reproduce and you need a good backdrop for this type of work. I think that this dates back to about the 17th century and the famous Dutch Masters. How fantastic some of these artists from a bygone age were, and so forward thinking. Now to the regular night-time scenes found in gay Paris created by the likes of Toulouse-Lautrec. How he loved all this and brought the subjects all to life for us and into our homes as posters etc. showing the bawdy lifestyle of the local artists and burlesque in the dance halls. What about Monet who produced such greatly coloured and inspired landscapes, and natural artistic scenes. Yet he did not stop at this as he also loved doing very amusing caricatures mainly of his friends. However, there are so many well known artists. Take Renoir, Paul Klee, J.W. Turner. Pablo Pic***o, these are just a few and there are many more up and coming artists we are yet to hear about. One of my favourites happens to be Salvador Dali. His work appeared to know no bounds. He surely is one of the greatest painters ever known. Barcelona is fortunate to have so many examples for the general public to savour. About the Author: If you enjoyed this article then you can find a lot more at the writers website. Anna Meenaghan is an artist that uses a great many media to bring her art to life. Ranging from realism all the way to art posters. Why not visit her internet, interactive art community?
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