Archive for August, 2009
Author: gama
We love to see the trees in winter, stripped of their foliage and with exposed skeletons. The winter scenes and the shapes visible in the cold perspective have their own beauties. If we look with an artist's mind, we can trace out rhythm in embedded in the shapes formed by the trees standing on the barren land, in the branches of trees and their twigs, on the show fallen on a distant rooftop. Gustave Courbet had seen such beauty in the winter scenes; and he had painted many landscapes, which makes the viewers visually informed bout the colourful beauty of winter scenes.
Gustave Gourbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who came from an affluent family; but preferred to be among the life of the common men. He had emerged as a force in modern painting. He had properties situated in the south-east France, near the beautiful and snow covered mountain peaks of Alps, nearing the Swiss border. It made Courbet to come in close touch of the nature ad his artistic soul turned this opportunities into beautifully painted landscapes paintings.
In many of his paintings, Courbet had shown his artistic prowess in depicting the scenery with honesty. The snow-clad landscape and the foreground figures of a child and a village woman followed by a goat immediately put into a village scene during winter: this was his one of the finest paintings.
Courbet had painted several landscapes beautifying the winter. In this painting Village in Winter he had depicted his favourite subject, the harshness of the nature.
If the artist does not apply symbolism in his/her painting, the art work seems lacking something. But here Gustave Courbet has depicted the hardships of life through the snow covered land and the visible poverty of the woman. But the shining sun provides us the feel of hope and happiness.
I write short stories and articles about the paintings. Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/visual-art-articles/gustave-courbet-painting-winter-shapes-1169122.html
Author: gama
In the style of the paintings known as Genre paintings the artists make pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets and domestic settings. Vermeer's paintings speak the language of cool observation, involving the viewer in an experience of deepening relation and visual discoveries painted in the acts of daily life. There is no other seventeenth century artist who early in his career employed, in the most lavish way, the exorbitantly expensive pigment lapis lazuli, or natural ultramarine. However no drawings have been positively attributed to neither Vermeer; nor paintings offer clues to preparatory methods.
Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. His works are largely genre pieces and portraits, with the exception of some cityscapes. Genre painters choose the ordinary life of common men as subject. This style of paintings is also called genre scenes or genre views. These paintings are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. The artists are free to use their imaginations; as such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized. Unlike modern time, the number of paints available was quite less in 17th century.
Moreover the colours were of different characteristics in regards to permanence, workability, and drying time. Vermeer mainly used white, red madder, green earth, raw umber and ivory black, yellow ochre and vermilion. If we look at the one of the paintings where Vermeer had applied the expensive ultramarine we can know better. The bread, the basket and the bowl are so vibrant that they seem competing to steal the viewers' attention. However the Focal point of the painting and the maid is the milk being poured in, by which the artist has painted the most ordinary act of daily life in a poetic statement. The bread, the basket and the bowl are so vibrant that they seem competing to steal the viewers' attention. In dependent paintings of the persons doing common acts, like carpentry and missionary, was a marked departure in Western painting.
It is because these paintings of common people doing their day to day works were without religious pretext. For similar paintings by the genre painter you may visit the following links.
I write short stories and articles about the paintings. Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/visual-art-articles/vermeer-a-master-of-genre-paintings-1169157.html
