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Kamis, 26 April 2012

Oil Painting Masters

By Molly Hinges


Oil painters mix paint like cooks mix ingredients. Each master is known for their shade preferences: Rembrandt loves darker colors, Picasso prefers bold and bright accents, and Monet enjoys soft colors.

Each artist uses these colors to tell their own story. Rembrandt is known for his gold highlights and earthy tones. Rembrandt used these Italian techniques that were known as chiaroscuro. Chiaroscuro combined shadow and light and gave his paintings a deep feeling that focused on attention. Rembrandt used these to enhance features.

While there is much debate over Rembrandt's most famous painting, many art experts point to "The Night Watch," which the Dutch artist completed in 1642. Soldiers are used in the foreground for the chiaroscuro techniques. They depict a captain who is dressed in black. There is a lieutenant who wears yellow. They portrayed in vivid colors next to the militia as muted tones in the background.

To get the effect he desired, Rembrandt enjoyed mixing colors together. Rembrandt used to mix white paint with charcoal to get a blue-gray tone.

Money loved how light shimmered on his canvas. His impressionist style was basically like putting a sensation of light itself.

In 1905, Monet said that the point was knowing how to use each color.

In 1890, the French painter took to the countryside to complete a series of 30 haystack oil paintings that show his devotion to the effect of light on color. It took him just under a year to do the paintings.

Monet would wake up before the sun rose. He would work on each canvas and then switch, about every 30 minutes, when the light would change. He would repeat the process for as many days as it took to finish each painting.

This included bright sunshine, fog, snow, and gray weather. He made some of the haystacks yellow and changed others to reds, oranges and browns depending upon the season.

Picasso's early works were known as the blue and rose periods. His blue period was from 1901 and 1904, when he used many shades of blue for somber paintings. The Rose Period (1904-1906) showed Picasso's cheerier side. He had a fascination with acrobats, harlequins and circus people. So, he would add oranges and pinks to the colors that became the preferences in his colors.

Though he later used a variety of bold and bright colors as one of the legends of the Cubist movement, Picasso's most famous painting is in black and white with a touch of blue. "Guernica" is an 11 foot by 25. This six foot mural that was painted in oil depicted bombing in the town that the painting was named after, by German planes in the middle of the Spanish War. This was unveiled back in 1937 and lasted this long. It traveled all over the world to help remind people who viewed war's horrors.




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