How To Appreciate Painting
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HOW TO APPRECIATE PAINTING MODULE #7
MOST PAINTINGS ARE REPRESENTATIONAL OR OBJECTIVE AND THE BASIC POINTS TO BEAR IN MIND ARE:
THROUGH-THE-WINDOW REALISM SELECTIVE REALISM LIGHT-AND-SHADOW REALISM FRINGE REALISM FOCUS-AND-FRINGE REALISM DYNAMIC REALISM DREAM-WORLD REALISM
THROUGH-THE-WINDOW REALISM Eyck, Jan van (b. before 1395, Maaseik, Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire [now in Belgium]--d. before July 9, 1441, Bruges), Flemish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, made extensive use of disguised religious symbols. His masterpiece is the altarpiece in the cathedral at Ghent, the Adoration of
SELECTIVE REALISM
Functions on the principle that nobody can see every object in front of him but sees only what he is interested in. Here, the painter paints only what comes into visual attention and leaves out all the rest. He is thus not burdened by organizational problems and can present his subject in unbalanced composition, achieving a freshness
LIGHT-AND-SHADOW REALISM
Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art. His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images.
FRINGE REALISM What is known as Impressionism is a painting of the fringe without focus. The painter paints only what stimulates the eye. As far as possible, all influences of the mind should be kept out. The Impressionists—Renoir, Monet, Seurat etc., made a careful study of light, not color. They painted in small brushstrokes of different colors.
FOCUS-AND-FRINGE REALISM Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego (1599-1660). Spain's greatest painter was also one of the supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than any other painter.
DYNAMIC REALISM Paul, Cezanne French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20thcentury artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cézanne's art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually challenged all the conventional values of painting in the 19th century through its insistence on personal expression and on the integrity of the painting itself. He has been called the
DREAM-WORLD REALISM
MOST PAINTINGS ARE REPRESENTATIONAL OR OBJECTIVE AND THE BASIC POINTS TO BEAR IN MIND ARE:
THROUGH-THE-WINDOW REALISM SELECTIVE REALISM LIGHT-AND-SHADOW REALISM FRINGE REALISM FOCUS-AND-FRINGE REALISM DYNAMIC REALISM DREAM-WORLD REALISM
THROUGH-THE-WINDOW REALISM Eyck, Jan van (b. before 1395, Maaseik, Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire [now in Belgium]--d. before July 9, 1441, Bruges), Flemish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, made extensive use of disguised religious symbols. His masterpiece is the altarpiece in the cathedral at Ghent, the Adoration of
SELECTIVE REALISM
Functions on the principle that nobody can see every object in front of him but sees only what he is interested in. Here, the painter paints only what comes into visual attention and leaves out all the rest. He is thus not burdened by organizational problems and can present his subject in unbalanced composition, achieving a freshness
LIGHT-AND-SHADOW REALISM
Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art. His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images.
FRINGE REALISM What is known as Impressionism is a painting of the fringe without focus. The painter paints only what stimulates the eye. As far as possible, all influences of the mind should be kept out. The Impressionists—Renoir, Monet, Seurat etc., made a careful study of light, not color. They painted in small brushstrokes of different colors.
FOCUS-AND-FRINGE REALISM Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego (1599-1660). Spain's greatest painter was also one of the supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than any other painter.
DYNAMIC REALISM Paul, Cezanne French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20thcentury artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cézanne's art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually challenged all the conventional values of painting in the 19th century through its insistence on personal expression and on the integrity of the painting itself. He has been called the
DREAM-WORLD REALISM
