- Bring in prepared ground, painted one color, ready to go. You will NEED cotton rags. Also, two sheets of canvas paper. We'll do two studies and one longer painting.
- Bring in your final crit paintings, half to 3/4 finished
- ***Sketchbook for grading (including museum/gallery visit)!***
For Thursday - Final crit and cleanup:
- All paintings since midterm
- Any paintings from the first half that you changed/improved
One last blog entry:
Lucian Freud and other figure painters of note: read the article and look up their works.
Lucian Freud
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/lucian-freud-adept-portraiture-artist-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Alice Neel
Ivan Albright
“I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t actually there in front of me,” he told the art critic Robert Hughes. “That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.” - Freud. This quote said by Freud seems to define everything he embraces in his portraitures. He avoids saturated colors and thin brush strokes and he used a stuff brush and large amounts of paint on the canvas. He painted flesh so thick that it appeared lumpy, but that lumpy texture embraces the true nature of a humans skin and shape and all of an individual's unique imperfections. Something very important is that Freud holds a strong relationship with his subjects, this gives his paintings truth because he believes that the paint is the person. I believe he has a very realist outlook on his subjects; he paints what he sees but his technique and use of unsaturated color is really what brings his paintings to life.
ReplyDeleteLucian Freud, Alice Neel, and Ivan Albright use the techniques of places the paint on the canvas rather than blending the paint into the other paint on the canvas. I also noticed that in some of their pieces, the colors that they used for the flesh may not be thought of as particular flesh colors. However, when you look at the paintings as wholes, they colors work together to create the appearance of flesh. This allows the figures to have more volume and look more realistic than just using one color as the ‘flesh tone’. The complimentary colors used also allow for shadows and highlights to occur on the figures which add to their volume as well.
ReplyDelete*Danielle Sargent*