Posts Tagged ‘Oil Painting’

Famous Different Kinds of Art Galleries

April 26th, 2010



When it comes to art galleries you will find lots varieties as there are different kinds of art existing. Commonly, an art gallery comprises of precise focus and further managed by a custodian who expertise in such kind of art. General concerns of art galleries comes from particular area, art in a particular medium or singular style, or also art from specific focus such as political art. Characteristically, any art in an art gallery is for sale, even though the gallery might hold on to an extraordinary permanent set, or sponsor an exclusive display of art.

Most of the art galleries are public, in the sense that any person could walk inside the art gallery and but the desired art. In general, public galleries host often openings and willingly promote their company. Many artists get their kick start at common public art galleries only, which could sell work on fee or buy work from an artist and resell it later. On the other hand, some of the art galleries, yet, are private, in the sense that you need to be a member if you wish to enter. Private art galleries demonstrate high-end art, and support bountiful openings.

Some of the art galleries have custodians which usually concentrate on art from a particular region or exact period. Examples of regions might comprise of European art, Australian aboriginal art, and other Chinese art, Asian art on the whole or African art. At times the regional spotlight would be very restricted; an art gallery may only show Peruvian textiles, for instance. During other times, the focus is in fact more on general, and is intended to comprise a huge range of creative styles from a wide-ranging area of the globe. In some cases, an art gallery only carries art from an exact period in history. This is particularly common with modern art galleries, which display first and foremost modern art.

Generally, art galleries would be devoted to a meticulous medium like furniture, oil painting, jewels, picture making, monument, textiles, or other pottery. The medium might be exact to an area or time period, or it might be a more universal collection of works in, which medium. Frequently the art on show is from a huge variety of performers, permitting collectors of, which medium to discover newcomers to the area and buy a variety of art.

Another usual kind of art gallery is a kind of gallery that has an exact educational focus. That focus may be political, chronological, or could be medium based. For instance, an art gallery might prefer to only show contemporary comic art. Another art gallery may offer work done in twentieth century by Jewish artists, or show political pictures from African refugees. These galleries are characteristically open to members of the public, to support cultural education and other enrichment.

By: Ben A Jonson

Oil Painting – Most Popular Art Form Of The Modern Times

March 21st, 2010



Oil painting is a distinct genre of painting where drying oil is applied as paints. Timeless possessions of arts, oil paintings down the ages are visual documentations of the history culture and lifestyle of the yore. With the moving courses of time new styles and techniques have made way into the paintings making them more enriched and versatile. Oil Painting is also very popular in the modern times. The modern artists and connoisseurs admire them and innovate new ideas from them.

Various types of oil were used to create oil paintings. Linseed oil, poppy seed oil, sunflower oil and walnut oil were used commonly. The painters mixed the oils with the pigments with great dexterity and precision. Pine resins and frankincense were applied to bring a glossy effect on the paintings. Generally the paintings were carved on a canvas. But in some cases the paintings were framed out in paper sheets, cardboards, linoleum and wooden panels. Animal glue and gesso were used to coat the panel paintings. Modern gesso is a combination of calcium carbonate and polymer acrylic. It is used to increase the absorbency of the primer coat of an oil painting. Animal glue saves from the harmful acid effect of the paints.

In oil paintings the outline of the subject of a particular painting is first carved out on the canvas. Then pigments are mixed with oils to prepare shades of colors. Pigments having cobalt, manganese and lead were used in the early days to increase the drying process. The oil colors are then applied on the painting in the form of layers. With the advent of oil painting tubes the painters have been freed from the hazards of mixing oil with pigments.

Painting in layers is the conventional method of oil painting. This is done to enhance the effect of colors and bring perfection into the painting. First the “underpainting” is sketched out using thin coats of paints like the turpentine paint. The layer is let to dry up. After this several layers of oil paints are applied consecutively letting each layer to dry up completely before applying the next layer. It can take several weeks to months to dry an oil painting completely. After the work is sealed by the artist varnish is applied to bring the shining effect.

Oil paintings have been influenced by various styles of art namely renaissance art, figurative art, folk art, abstract art, contemporary art and modern art. The themes of the paintings were collected from various facets of nature, figures of animals and human beings, modern architectures and every day life. The inherent self of human beings and the various human moods and psychologies are also captured into bold lines and colors in the modern oil paintings. Raphael’s ‘La donna velata’ (1516) Titian’s ‘The Rape of Europa’(1562), Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ (1503-1506), Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’(1889), ‘Sunflowers’(1889) and ‘Wheat Field With the Crows’ (1890), Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’, Salvador Dali’s ‘The Persistence of Memory’ ( 1931) and ‘The Metamorphosis of Narcissus’ (1937) are legendary oeuvres of oil painting that inspire awe and veneration to the votaries of arts from time to time.

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By: Amitseo Kumar Singh

Fantasy Art of Exotic Women, My Quest To Find the Passions of Gustav Klimt & Lands Unknown

December 25th, 2009



“Beginning”

“I search for Klimt!” the artist in me spoke spoke boldly.

“Ahhh, then we must start at the Beginning!”, said the Wind.

Pulling out oils, my canvas, poems and stories from an old wooden case, turquoise, silver leaf and jewels thrust past the lid and met the open sky.

The Wind confirmed my journey, “Your fantasy begins now, paint freely beautiful women goddess art “

And so I did.

“Beginning” is the first oil painting I did in my quest for the passions of Gustav Klimt. I wanted my fantasy art of exotic women to be full of energy and determination. Searching out the exotic meant distant foreign lands, birds not normally encountered, perhaps I would come across a magic swan? To search for Klimt meant to know emotion well and not to be afraid of what those emotions might tell me thus far unknown to science. I start my fantasy art woman paintings with music, usually Enigma; Dead Can Dance or something from Loreena McKennitt. Then I open my heart and the fantasy art woman inside of me begins. It feels like a daydream, a magical adventure. It is a dance and I become covered with all the colors seen in my oil paintings and on my palette. My imagining becomes so real that sometimes I can hear them breathing. It isn’t the realism of the brushstroke on watercolor paper or canvas that I capture in this series, ahh no. It is something less tangible than a rendering.

Have you ever met an accomplishment you thought you couldn’t? Then stand back and wonder where the energy came from and like lace and whispers you say, “Did I do that, did this come from me alone?” Sometimes feeling startled by the women and their presence, something imported from another time in space captures me. I pause from the dance, focus my eyes and I see life. I breath in the art of the exotic women I paint. It is all a dance waiting to surface.

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By: Kathy Ostman-Magnusen