While there are many technical elements to art, for me, apart of the beauty of art is it's ability to help, encourage, question, and basically, impact it's viewer. Have you ever had a drawing that transported you somewhere that you liked? At times we can get so lost in the rough patches we go through, that even a simple painting can give us hope by transporting us to a place, or a memory.This is an oil painting that I found at www.oilpaintingsgallery.com by John Atkinson Grimshaw titled Humber Docks, Hull. It is a landscape painting in both the realism and naturalism category. Look at how he makes the water sparkle!This painting reminds me of going on vacation to places like California. There is something about water and nature that I really like, and it's painting like these that can remind us of those places that we really liked.
From here on, I would suggest a focus. Choose an arts-based: topic, artist, work, style, historical context, technique, discipline - anything - and use this as an on-going research tool; that will or could feed into your up-coming essay...
ReplyDelete...Use this time - the mid-term - to tighten-up your blog. To critically explore a field of interest pertinent to you. Schedule a tutorial with me, if you would like help, feedback or direction.
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