Observations on the History of Oil Painting

The people that have been major players throughout the history of oil painting were all white European men that all had a liking for painting. This is because in European people are better educated on the art of painting. With there money and materials to work with on there paintings they can prefect and make people see how amazing there artwork can come to be. 

I think that the things that are missing from the history of oil painting is that other people besides the Europeans did do paintings just the same. But without the education and better understanding of oil painting, other people aren’t shown as the best, and the most well known. This is because of there lack of education and everything that they were grown up with.

It has been said that oil painting did not start up in European it actually took place in other places near Afghanistan and around there. So the Europeans took up the idea after hearing from other places. 

All these oil painting either went into art galleries or museums showing there art work. These paintings “live” in these different places to show the history and the art of times when many important things happened. 

 What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo addressed the concept of a portrait because in this painting all these different objects in this picture are very different and odd describing the persons qualities. It might be that he took different parts of ideas and forms of the person and changed them all into one. He is looking at the person and interpreting what he sees and creating from that ideas and parts of the person that arent really seen when looking at them.

 Librarian by Guiseppe Archimboldo is a portrait of a man, showing his face and body as books. Which can prove that he could be a writer or even a poet. Considering that I know nothing about this artist you can just see from how he paints what he is talking about, or painting about when painting a picture of this man.

Madame X by John Singer Sargent is a picture of a women in a beautiful dress, she looks like a high class women that wants to show her "good side." This portrait is showing just a women that wants to show that she is living in a high class world and she is the best.

My White Objects Painting.

In my white objects painting, I seemed to struggle a lot with making the shades of the objects more detailed and real. I really did try to make certain objects and things stand out, but it just was not my best piece of work I have made. I think I did well on the background part and the pitcher and the bowl I think I did pretty well in. But I think I could have improved on making the paper roll and the mugs. I didn't feel that I knew how to approach these objects in the painting that thats why it didn't turn out as great as I would have wanted it to be. 

A sense of Place.

It never opened.

Where are you at?

I think that the most challenging thing for me in this course is the way you have to create shadowing and texture to the object/s that your painting.

I think when I am trying to make certain colors I know exactly what colors to mix and what amount of color that is needed to be put together to make it. Also when I look at the objects that I am painting I really know how to shape the objects to look real. 

Looking at paints show us how different people can be with there ideas of what they think art is. Some are abstract others are shapes and some are even landscapes. This is giving different variety in size color and what is on the picture.

Some Famous Paintings

The persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali was a very interesting painting because it is abstract in how the clocks are dripping and bent in such ways they wouldn't in real life. I really like how they are distorted and randomly place in different areas of the painting. I don't know what he was thinking in this painting but where it is placing in this area looking like the desert is very odd. Its not a painting that you can look at just once and be like wow. You really have to take time to look at this one because its shape and color is so eye catching. 

Using Composition As a Tool

In the painting Custard Cascade, by Will Cotton of 2001. He takes deserts and pastries scattered all over the painting. I liked this one because even though its foods it also looks like abstract objects. This painting takes the every day objects and puts them in a different type of form showing you that, normal every day objects can turn into artwork. I think this one is very interesting and different because it has all different textures on it. 

Morandi vs. VanGogh

Vincent Van Gogh's paintings are colorful and have what seems like life in each part of the painting. The blues and browns and greens seem to stand out and catch your eye. It has my happy glow in each other the colors that are put on the paper. 

Giorgio Morandi's paintings are shown as more calm colors and bland colors. The boxes and the vases in the picture don't so much stand out as much as Vincent's pictures do they seems to bend into each other showing a more dim and gloomy coloring.