For the last three weeks in the Fine Art workshop we have been looking at the different ways particular artists paint onto their canvases. On the first week we were given the style of Henry Matisse who used watered down primary colours to get the bottom layer of a painting onto paper.
On the second week we studied the style of Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh who sometimes leave obvious brushstrokes in their work to show shade, lighting, detail and movement. For example it could display the detail of patterns on fabrics, the movement of clouds in the sky or the reflection of light on a river.
This week we looked at the artists Georges Braque and Juan Gris who are popular for doing cubism. In cubism the main thing you have to do is make the objects look flat, broken and slightly abstract. In the task I was given I had a set up of a still life (see image below) that I had to paint in the style of cubism.
Still life set up
I decided to focus on a smaller section of the image and do a close-up to make it less complicated. I focused on the dog as it draws your attention to it because of the contrast of the pink fabric and the green dog. I started off by drawing random shapes onto my page and then started drawing the still life into the boxes so it looks broken and flat just like it is meant to. This is the almost completed piece of work :
My cubism inspired artwork
I am really pleased about my piece of work however I still need to finish putting some detail onto it. I think it looks quite flat as well which I am pleased with because I usually like to make things look shaded and round. The only thing I would do differently next time would be to make it look more abstract because cubists make there work seem like a part of objects are missing within the other lines of the painting. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop this week as I got to try doing a style of art I had never tried before and I hope I will be able to use these techniques in the future.
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