Monika Fine Art: June 2014

Thursday, 19 June 2014

Monday, 16 June 2014

Photoshop - Layers

How-to-use sheet (microsoft office word)

Referencing is used to enable the reader to locate where you obtained information and ideas and to avoid copyright. You should always provide the original source to show that you acknowledge the original author's ideas.

harward referencing

EXAMPLES:

BOOKS

Wassily Kandinsky (1977). Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Dover: Dover Publications. 24-55.

John Gage (1999). Colour and Meaning. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 11-67.

WEBSITES

The Art Story Contributors. (2014). Claude Monet. Available: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-monet-claude.htm. Last accessed 18th May 2014.

Julia Brucker. (2014). Henri Matisse. Available: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-matisse-henri.htm#. Last accessed 18th May 2014.

Mark Harden. (2014). Kandinsky: Compositions. Available: http://www.glyphs.com/art/kandinsky/. Last accessed 18th May 2014.

Jeff Dugan. (2002). Wassily Kandinsky: Composition VII. Available: http://www.arttoheartweb.com/worshipresources/homilies/hom_Kandinsky_Comp7.htm. Last accessed 18th May 2014.

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Final Pieces

Final Pieces the making #3

Final Pieces the making #2

Final Pieces the making #1

Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

was one of the leaders of the French movement called Impressionism, which actually got its name after one of Monet’s paintings“Impression: Sunrise”. In 1860s he started to paint outdoors, instead of working in a studio, which enabled him to capture the atmosphere and the mood of a location, observing the changes of light and colour.

The Rouen Cathedral series is not the only project in which Monet painted the same subject many times observing the changes in colour and light, but it is one that he is most known for.Between 1892-1894, Monet had been working on multiple paintings of the cathedral, trying to capture the changes in colour and light at different times of the day and under varying weather conditions. The series consists of over thirty canvases, from which the artist chose twenty that he considered the bestand exhibited them in 1895 at Durand-Ruel's gallery in Paris.

Monet admitted that in his work, he had little interest in the subject matter – he rather focused on the fleeting atmosphere of the place, trying to capture a moment in time.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

During his lifetime, Van Gogh only managed to sell one of his paintings.

In his art, he tried to portray the inner spirituality of the subject, rather than just its outer appearance. He developed a distinctive style with the use of thick, curved brushstrokes and colour.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Is often regarded as the greatest colourist of the twentieth century. He was one of the leaders of Fauvism (Fauve meaning wild beast). Fauvists often used pure, unmixed colours in their work, creating very unnatural looking, but extremely colourful art. They often painted landscapes or nudes, trying to get rid of depressing subject matter in their pictures.

Studies

Colour experiments

In these studies I continued to make portraits, trying to focus on experimenting with different colour combinations and schemes, as well as using a more limited colour palette.

oil and dry pastel on textured board (mainly red + blue)

I used the forehead eye like in one of the previous sketches, so that it would cover up the normal eyes - this represents the mind, or the "inner eye".

dry pastel and charcoal on textured board (mainly blue + yellow)

oil and dry pastel on board (mainly blue, orange and yellow)

oil pastel and charcoal on two boards

First sketches

Looking at Bryan Charnley and Bryan Lewis Saunders, I decided to try out the self-portrait theme. After doing a few smaller sketches, I tried out a variety of media.

white chalk on paper