Expressive self-Portraits
You will create a series of drawings developing portrait features and compositional devices. Using photographs and mirrors students develop a series of self portraits that focus on realistic technique through a range of media. Study the work of Ernst Ludwig, Munch and more analyzing techniques and modes for expression. Develop painting, observational skills and collage skills. Scan and manipulate images through Photoshop using them to create a larger scale version.
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How do artists use expressionism in mexico
Desfile de modelos frutales, Gilbert Aceves Navarro, January 3, 2012
This mexican‘s work reflects a concern for the negative effects of industrialization and modernization on cities and displays a nostalgia for more humane urban conditions. His large-scale paintings convey a sense of urgency through the use of light and colour, with broad lines and chromatic tones creating dynamic forms that show the influence of Abstract Expressionism. |
Frida Kahlo: “Self Portrait with Braid” (1941)
Frida Kahlo‘s paintings reflect a modernist take on folk art and integrate her experience of suffering. Frida Kahlo paintings included self portraits that depicted her physical and emotional pain and suffering. She used a lot of symbolism in her works and borrowed elements from surrealism and naive art. |
egon schiele
(12, 1890 – 1918) was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
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How to enlarge
It's all well and good making lots of small art works in your sketchbooks - you need to work on a larger scale. Here's a great way to turn you favorite photos, drawing or small scale painting into a larger master piece
ink and wash from artsy
Ink and Wash refers to the long-standing East Asian brush painting practice involving carbon-based black ink applied to paper or silk, the same materials also used for calligraphy. In China, the practice first emerged under the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), though ink-making processes date back to 2500 BC. The essential formal element in ink-and-wash paintings is the line, rendered with varying thicknesses and types of stroke, and according to countless different techniques. Ink-and-wash painting has tended towards naturalism and expressiveness at different times in its long history, though landscapes, animals, and flora have been a consistent subject matter. Although the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) mandated the adoption of Socialist Realism, artists in subsequent generations have returned to ink-and-wash painting as a means both of exploring cultural heritage and depicting modern life.