International Painters & Paintings PDF

## **The Design Ladder: Painters & Their Paintings** **A Step-way to Your Dream Design College** Paintings are a type of visual art that effectively express ideas and feelings. Paintings evoke feelings of movement, volume, space and light, and are typically created by artists using the components...

## **The Design Ladder: Painters & Their Paintings** **A Step-way to Your Dream Design College** Paintings are a type of visual art that effectively express ideas and feelings. Paintings evoke feelings of movement, volume, space and light, and are typically created by artists using the components of shape, colour, line, tones and textures in distinctive ways. ### **International Painters** 1. **Johannes Vermeer** * **Theme:** Domestic interior scenes of middle-class life and quiet cityscapes in the early 19th century * **Style:** Baroque art * **Medium:** Oil on canvas * **Color Scheme:** Main pigments of his palette are ultramarine, blue, green, vermillion, red earth, yellow earth, grey and ochre. * **Recognizable feature:** Clear play of light and shadow. * **Key Feature:** 1. Detailed and realistic paintings. 2. Used perspective to create light-filled interiors. 3. The background is usually grey or ochre 4. Ordinary people and their everyday life are some common themes. 2. **Leonardo da Vinci** * Leonardo Vinci was an Italian painter, a Sculptor, an Engineer and an Architect. * **Style:** Renaissance art * **Color Scheme:** No bright/intense colors were used. Earthy browns, greens and blue were used. * **Technique:** 'Sfumato' (softening colors and edges and blending them with dark glazing in manner of smoke to create hazy forms) * **Key Features:** 1. Sharp contours and features in portraits 2. Most famous painting: Mona Lisa 3. Used perspective and scientific observations. 4. Focused on human anatomy 3. **Michelangelo** * **Artform:** High Renaissance * **Color Scheme:** Vibrant color scheme * **Medium:** Made various paintings, sculptures and architectures. * **Key Features:** 1. Twisted figures signify great energy and depth. 2. The most famous "Sistine Chapel ceiling" in Fresco, was painted by him in 1508-1512, and a lot of paintings are painted on it. 3. Nude figures. 4. Scenes from the Bible are also depicted in his paintings. 4. **Oscar-Claude Monet** * Oscar- Claude Monet was a French painter and an Impressionist artist. * **Theme:** Nature/natural world, landscapes and gardens * **Color Scheme:** Pure primary & contemporary colors are used along with White. * **Technique:** Impressionism * **Key Features:** 1. Loose brush strokes to reflect the light. 2. Usually painted on light background. 3. No straight lines 4. Colorful flowers, sunset & sunrise sceneries 5. Use of light, shadow and spatial imprecision 6. The main focus was on light and texture. 5. **Auguste Renoir** * Pierre-Auguste Renoir was an Impressionist artist. * **Theme:** Social gatherings * **Color Scheme:** Pastel and vibrant-hued colors * **Key Features:** 1. Broken brush strokes. 2. Bold combination of pure complementary colors to capture the light and movement of his landscapes & figures. 3. Crowded party scenes. 4. Dancing human figures. 5. Get together scenes. 6. Paintings depict a sense of joy. 7. Also painted portraits & landscapes 6. **Pablo Ruiz Picasso** * Pablo Picasso was a Painter, Sculptor, Printmaker, Ceramist and a Theatre designer. * **Style:** Cubism * **Theme:** Expressing feeling of sadness * **Color Scheme:** Monochromatic palatte, centering on blue and its tints, tones & shades to express sadness. Also used Bright color scheme. * **Key Features:** 1. Expressive images through abstract art 2. Depicts loneliness, sadness, depression, anxiety and dissolution. 3. Nude models 4. Abstract shapes and forms 7. **Paul Cezanne** * **Style:** Bridging the gap between Impressionism and Cubism to paint subjects in both natural and domestic ranges. * **Color Scheme:** Early works were made by using a dark and dull color palette, eventually opted for a more vibrant palette. * **Key Features:** 1. Made still life, landscapes and portraits, which are recognized for the ineffable alchemy that the artist achieved through the use of skewed perspective. 2. Dark and moody themes 3. Expressive brush strokes 4. Most of the emphasis is on shading, leaving certain areas of the canvas exposed. 5. Parallel or perpendicular strokes, hatching/crosshatching to model the surface and create a sense of volume. 6. Multiple/skewed perspectives. 8. **Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael)** * **Style:** High Renaissance * **Color Scheme:** Natural ultramarine, yellow, ochre, lead-tin yellow, red ochre and brown. * **Key Features:** 1. Used metal point, chalk, pen/ink 2. Graceful figures, sublimely perfect 3. Symmetrical design intended to draw attention to the central figures. 4. Harmonious compositions 5. Famous for "Madonna & The Child" painting which showed the graceful Madonna and a playful child. 6. Sense of depth and space within the compositions. 9. **Rembrandt** * Also Known as: Painter of 'Light & Shadow' * **Art movement:** Dutch golden age, Baroque artist * **Color Scheme:** Intense & dark colors were used, like dark earth tones and luminous highlights. * **Key Features:** 1. Painted mainly Portraits, Biblical scenes and Historical events. 2. Also painted Self Potrait 3. Rendered people in their various moods and dramatic guises 4. Portrays deep human feelings, imperfections and morality 5. Variation of brushstrokes between loose and rough 6. Created texture through scratching knife. 7. Staple colors: lead white, bone black, ochres, siennas 10. **Vincent Van Gogh** * Known as: Post- Impressionist artist. * **Theme:** Expressed his emotional and mental state using bold colours, often symbolic images. * **Color Scheme:** Light and dark variations of a single color, different shades of blue, green and yellow ochre, later discovered pigments like cadmium yellow and chrome yellow. * **Key Features:** 1. Choppy brushstrokes 2. Dark shapes 3. Painted still life and landscapes. 4. Mostly pen and watercolor drawings 5. Depicts depression and loneliness. 6. Usually painted natural themes such as night skies, landscapes, sunflowers and wheat fields. 7. Famous painting: Starry Night (1889), its spectacular swirling night sky, expressionist style spirals grab the focus. This painting was based on his view from his window at the asylum. ***