Arts in the Modern Era (Painting, Sculpture, Architecture)

• Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.

Diana and Cupid, 1761. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, Roman, 1708–1787) Oil on canvas

• In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.

• The term painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders.

• Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction, among other aesthetics, may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.

Cubism

Weeping Woman With Red Hat by Pablo Picasso

'Still Life with mandolin and Guitar', 1924 (oil on canvas). PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Based on the picture, describe the painting in 3 sentences.

Make your own Cubist painting!• Decide if your piece is going to be a

picture broken up (like the painting above) or a load of objects or shapes mashed together.

• Plan out your piece. Before you start on your final piece, you must have a nice plan. Note down what media (art tools-pencil, pastels, paints, etc.), what colours you want, and other things you think are necessary. After that,sketch out a few designs and practice what you want to draw and achieve.

• Lightly draw on your final choice onto your Final Piece paper/ canvas with a pencil. It is suggested that you draw lightly so that even if you make a mistake, you can easily rub it out. Try to overlap objects and twist them about, remember that your piece doesn't have to look realistic.

• Further break up the bigger shapes using straight lines going in all directions.

• Now you can start to paint (or use what ever media you're using). You paint every section individually, not the object you originally drew. Vary the direction of brush strokes and blend your colours together, make them gradually darker by add a tiny bit of black, make it lighter using water and anything other you want to do. Remember this is your piece!!!

• Once you have painted every single section it's done and ready to display!

Fauvism

1908 · View of Collioure - Henri Matisse View of Collioure.

In intensity and immediacy of expression, Matisse never surpassed Woman with a Hat, a portrait of his wife Amélie. The painting caused shock and outrage when it was shown at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905, and the painters were derisively labeled fauves ("wild beasts"). Matisse used "deliberate disharmonies" of red, green, orange, purple, and blue. Modeling in the face is created inversely, with green, the complementary of flesh tones. There is no drawing as such; contours are little more than ragged edges between planes of color, and the whole is brushed, especially in the background and toward the sides, with a crudity scarcely seen before. However, beneath the violence can be seen a plan in the progressions and recalls of color that betray the artist's instinctual sensitivity.

Woman with a Hat, autumn 1905 Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954) Oil on canvas; 31 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (79.4 x 59.7 cm)

• Based on the picture, describe the painting in 3 sentences.

MAKE YOUR OWN FAUVIST PAINTING!

• I started with a very loose drawing, outlining only a few shapes on the face. I did add a bit of deformation to stay away from a realistic portrait. The idea here is to be impulsive and to use bold brushstrokes.

• I keep on adding big patches of paint, very roughly, just describing the main areas of light and shade without any attempt at 3-D rendering of the face.

• I am adding colors, going from light to dark and leaving some areas of the paper unpainted, like in the yellow area of the hat, so the paint is not entirely covering the paper. I am using a stiff brush and am painting in a very rough manner, not trying to blend any color or to make soft transitions.

• Here, I introduce some cold colors in the shade area around the eyes and am defining some shapes, like the eyes, the nostrils and the center of the mouth, with a dark outline.

• I keep adding more colors and start working on the background, alternating areas of cold and warm colors, using bold brushstrokes with no blending. I didn’t leave any unpainted area so there isn’t much white left on the painting except some tiny areas of the paper showing through.

• This is the finished painting, I left some areas very rough on purpose, the background in particular has been kept really simple.