Modern Painting Assignment

Objective #1

• To explore painterly techniques from the late 1800s to the present in order to apply some of the master’s techniques to your own development of volume and depth in a representational painting…

Modern paintersResearch One

Cezanne

Van Gogh

Theibaud

Flack

Munch

Schiele

Albright

Freud

Neel

Select one of the figurative artists above….• Research their work and find multiple images examining their

application of paint. Answer the following questions:

What is this artist’s intention with their figurative work? What are they communicating to the viewer repeatedly in their works?

What is making them successful in terms of composition, viewpoint, and use of technique?

How is the application of paint itself successful in the work. Carefully analyze the color mixing and brushstroke layering to respond to this question.

Skin Tone Scales

• Now choose your favorite work from the artist you analyzed. Spend class mixing skin tone scales with the paint we have. Work with a general tone you mix that approximates the main color of the skin in your chosen work and then attempt to isolate the basic colors used by the artist to create depth and intensity changes as well as modeled value shifts. • Mix your colors with your main skin tone to create a scale of values

that have around 10-15 shifts. • Attempt to recreate a section of the face in the work you chose in

your RWB using your skin tone scale.