Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Arthur Streeton
Foxgloves in a vase, 1934, 60 x 50 cm
Roses, 58.5 x 48.5 cm
Roses, c. 1931, 60.5 x 50.5 cm
Sunflowers, 1926
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (1867-1943) was an Australian painter best known for his landscapes. He was influenced by the French Impressionists and Turner.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Edges: Marc-Laurent Bruyas
When the human eye looks at a scene, things at the focal point appear crisp and well-defined while things in the periphery are fuzzier and less distinct.
One of the important differences between painting and photography is that the painter can simulate the appearance of things as seen by the eye. The painter can decide what they want the viewer to pay attention to, and they can manipulate edges and contrasts in order to guide the viewer's eye around the painting.
A painting with all hard edges, or all soft edges, is visually less interesting than a painting with a variety of edges.
In the upper painting in particular, Bruyas has left the periphery of the composition fuzzier or blurrier than the blooms in the centre.
"lost edges" are parts of the painting where the edge between two objects disappears because the tonal values and colours of the adjacent areas become very close. The objects open out into each other, forming a larger shape, and this adds visual interest to the composition.
In the lower painting the pink roses have a lost edge between them, while a dark leaf provides greater separation between the two white roses. There are also lost edges where the dark leaves are close in value to the shadows on the ground underneath.
A still life painter will often push tonal values up or down in order to create lost edges. This is not dishonest; it is merely simulating what the eye does.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Roses
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Mary Jane Ansell, roses, 12 x 8.5 inches, oil on panel.
Nanas Roses, Karen Whitworth
Unknown Artist, (medium is probably pastel)
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Alexei Antonov
Other colours used are: yellow ochre light, prussian blue, and ivory black.
Chinese vermillion is used for the intense red tips of the petals.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Victoria Fantin-Latour
Panier of zinnias
Nee Dubourg, Victoria was the wife of Henri Fantin-Latour.
Both artists used neutral unfinished backgrounds to set off the colours of their still life subjects.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Abbott H Thayer
The waterlilies painting is bordering on landscape painting, but it's still, sort of, a still life.
Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher.
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