ENG S212: Lesson 9 - Contemporary Painting
Painting
- the process of using paint, in a picture, as protective coating, or as decoration.
Pastel
- require a different approach to painting.
Contemporary Painting
- they are artworks produced during the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
- it defines art produced after the Modern Art movement to the present day.
- made in many styles at one time throughout the globe
Art Production
- every art is dictated by the artist's style.
Style
- has many meanings
- it can mean the art produced in a particular history period or the art of a nation or region within a country.
- can be a certain technical approach to the making of art.
- it's necessary to sort artworks based on common traits or qualities and it can also be thought of as groups.
- it may be discerned not only by how it looks but also based on the quality of the painting.
Evolution of Style
- the growth of the artist's way of working
Stylistic Tendencies
- it can be manifested in artwork.
4 Styles of Stylistic Tendencies
- Objective Accuracy
- Formal Order
- Emotion
- Fantasy
A. Objective Accuracy
The Artist as Detached Observer
- detached observer or by employing selective eye.
The Artists as Selective Eye
- the illusion of reality created by elimination of details that eye might see.
Devices for Objective Accuracy
- the size and shape relationships. Correct Drawing is the most common device. He/She mush learn to distinguish between imitation of surfaces and informed representation.
- The artist's control and handling of illumination helps in creating realistic images.
Focus
- achieved through sharpness or softness, distinctness or vagueness of form and contour.
Color
- a powerful instrument, that's mainly connected with the description of the objects.
Perspective
- the pictorial device that relates to the artist's ability to create illusion deep space within the painting.
B. Formal Order
- associated with stability and permanence
3 Kinds of Qualities Exhibited by Formal Order
- Intellectual Order
- Biomorphic Order
- Aesthetic Order
Biomorphic and Aesthetic Order
- these two are more applicable to sculpture and architecture.
Intellectual Order
- it's applied to painting and this style is visible in cubism as it uses geometric forms, where it analyzes the forms employed by the painter.
Painters that uses Intellectual Order
- Pablo Picasso
- Georges Braque
- Vicente Manansala
C. Emotion
- feeling and romance are a common feature in these kinds of painting.
- Romanticism is also used in these paintings when the artists wishes to disclose personal feelings in relation to love and so on.
D. Fantasy
- artists discover a variety of possibilities of achieving form and visual effects.
- this originated in both logical and irrational mental processes, where it presents no common set of visual qualities.
- this may be objectively accurate or subjectively distorted.
- It can vary to being surrealistic, mechanical-biological, quasi-cubist, or reassembling parts of automobile to create context or meaning
Illusionism
- used to create fantastic images or substitute to real objects.
Stylistic Changes
- it's attributed to the creative inventions or artists working at certain times and specific places.
Pacita Abad
- Born in Batanes and leaned art-making in New York, USA
- While in Boston in early 1980s, she discovered Trapunto painting
- in 1983, made more than 110 Wayang paintings in Indonesia.
- Then travelled to Papua New Guinea to make 15 large masks in tribal colors. And combined the trapunto technique with local cowry shells, feathers, bones, and vegetable dyed colors.
Trapunto
- technique in stitching and stuffing painted canvas to give a 3D sculptural effect.
Brenda Fajardo
- her style is in tarot cards series through which she takes local historic and mythical stories and renders them in paintings of contemporary sociopolitical relevance.
Benefits of Painting
Promotes Stress Relief
- it's an emotional release like painting allows a person's mind to relax and let go of all the problems that contribute to a high stress level.
Expands Creative Growth
- painting comes more naturally to artistic, right-brain people, but more analytical left-brainers can stimulate and nurture their creative growth by practicing painting as well
Bolsters Memory
- Painting sharpens the mind through conceptual visualization, implementation and boosts memory skills.
Enhances Problem-Solving
- artist think conceptually to bring multiple solutions to life when painting, they are using critical thinking skills.
Cultivates Emotional Growth
- artist pours out their emotions through their artwork, they can also evaluate and understand factors that contribute to varying moods.
Stimulates an Optimistic Attitude
- Painting provides a relaxing, open environment where artists feel safe to explore their own creativity and encourages a more optimistic approach to life.