Painting

What is Painting?
The practice of applying paint,
pigment, color or other medium to
a surface (support base).
In art, the term describes both the
act and the result, which is called
a painting.

What is Painting?
It is the most widely
practiced and
appreciated visual
art

Elements of

Painting

Subject
The element that
answers the what of
the piece of painting.
What is the painting
all about?

Perspective (Viewpoint)
is an approximate
representation, on a
flat surface (such as
paper), of an image as
it is seen by the eye.

Superb Motion: by Fabio Giampietro

Vertigo by Fabio Giampietro

Medium
Refers to the
materials used by
the artist in his
painting.
What is it made of?

Different Types of Medium in Painting

Fresco

pigment mixed with

water and applied to
wet plaster.

Etruscan tombs at Tarquinii Italy 6th century b.c.

Different Types of Medium in Painting

Water color

a pigment mixed with

water and applied on
the surface of smooth
or rough paper
generally white in
color

Early Autumn Reflections: by Michelle Wiarda

Different Types of Medium in Painting

Oil

is the process of
painting with
pigments that are
bound with a
medium of drying oil

Mona Lisa: by Da Vinci

The Starry Night: by Vincent Van Gogh

Different Types of Medium in Painting

Acrylic

is fast drying paint

containing pigment
suspension in acrylic
polymer emulsion.
Acrylic paints can be
diluted with water, but
become water-resistant
when dry.

Ocean of Tranquillity

Fire in the Sky Blue Iris

Different Types of Medium in Painting

Tempera

a technique of painting in
which an emulsion
consisting of water and pure
egg yolk or a mixture of egg
and oil is used as a binder or
medium, characterized by its
lean fi lm-forming properties
and rapid drying rate

The Madonna and Child: by Duccio di Buoninsegna

The Crop Day

Style
refers to the distinctive
visual elements,
techniques and methods
that typify an individual
artist's work.
Could be based on Genre
or Style

Painting Genres
1. History Painting
2.Portraits
3.Genre-painting
4.Landscapes
5.Still Life

The establishment of these

genres and their relative status in
relation to one other, stems from
the philosophy of arts promoted
by the great European
Academies of Fine Art.
The fi ve types offi ne art painting
are listed in order of their offi cial
ranking or importance

History Painting
Traditionally the most-respected of all the
genres, history paintings are not limited to
those depicting 'historic scenes'.
The term derives from the Italian word
"istoria", meaning narrative (story), and
refers to paintings showing the exemplary
deeds and struggles of moral figures.

Liberty Leading the

People
Eugene Delacroix

Gricault
La zattera della
Medusa

Portraiture Painting
Portraits are pictures of people, deities or
mythological figures in human form. The
genre includes group-portraits as well as
individual compositions.
A portrait of an individual may be face-only,
head and shoulders, or full-body.

Group Portrait of M.S.

Volkov, S.N. Volkov
and S.M.VolkovManzei

Girl with a Pearl Earring:

by Johannes Vermeer

Genre Painting
This category of painting - confusingly
referred to as genre-paintings or genrescenes - denotes pictures that portray
ordinary scenes of everyday life.
Subjects encompass domestic settings,
interiors, celebrations, tavern scenes, markets
and other street situations.

Luncheon of The Boating Party: by Renoir

Contrast of Life by Bong Perez

Landscape Painting
Derived from the Dutch word 'landschap',
a patch of ground - the term 'landscape'
denotes any picture whose main subject
is the depiction of a scenic view, such as
fields, hillscapes, mountain-scapes, trees,
riverscapes, forests, sea views and
seascapes.

Antibes 1888 by Claude Monet

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, (1868)

Albert Bierstadt

Still Life Painting

A 'still life'' typically comprises an
arrangement of objects (such as flowers or any
group of mundane objects) laid out on a
table.
It derives from the Dutch word 'Stilleven', a
term used by Dutch artists to describe pictures
previously entitled 'Fruit' or 'Flower Pieces'.

Still Life with Fruit and Wineby Thomas Badger

Still Life with Plums Apricots

and a Wasp
By Emilie Preyer

Painting Styles
Realism
Modernism

Impressionism
Expressionism
Abstraction
Cubism
Surrealism
Pointillism
Fauvism
Minimalism
Pop Art
OP Art

Styleis used in two senses:

It can refer to the distinctive
visual elements, techniques
and methods that typify an
individual artist's work.
It can also refer to the
movement or school that an
artist is associated with.

Realism

The Gleaners. Millet, 1857

Portrays objects,
sceneries,
activities and
figures as they
have been seen
and experienced.
A replica of what
is actually seen or

Gricault
La zattera della Medusa

La zattera della Medusa

Courbet

Spolarium Juan Luna

Realist Painters

Modernism
Modernism was characterised by the deliberate
departure from tradition and the use of innovative
forms of expression that distinguish many styles in
the arts and literature of the late nineteenth and
the twentieth century.
Modernism refers to this periods interest in new
types of paints and other materials, in expressing
feelings and ideas, in creating abstractions and
fantasies, rather than representing what is real.
Paul Czanne is often called the Father of
Modernism.

Impressionism

Soleil Levant (Impression, sunrise) by

Claude Monet in 1872

Impressionism is
arguably the most
famous French painting
movement ever.
When they create an
art they are more
concerned with the
eff ects of lights that
would get the attention
of the audience.

Key Points in Impressionism

COLOR AND LIGHT
In contrast, the impressionists painted with freely
brushed colors that conveyed more of a visual
effect than a detailed rendering of the subject.
They used short broken strokes that were
intentionally made visible to the viewer.
They also often placed pure unmixed colors side
by side, rather than blended smoothly or shaded.
The result was a feeling of energy and intensity,
as the colors appeared to shift and moveagain,
just as they do in reality.

Spolarium Juan Luna

Haystack - Mist

Haystack - Morning

Key Points in Impressionism

EVERYDAY SUBJECTS
They ventured into capturing scenes of life
around them, household objects,
landscapes and seascapes, houses, cafes,
and buildings.
And they were not made to look beautiful
or lifelike, as body parts could be distorted
and facial features merely suggested by a
few strokes of the brush.

Luncheon of the Boating Party - Renoir

Key Points in Impressionism

PAINTING OUTDOORS
Impressionists found that they could best
capture the ever-changing effects of light
on color by painting outdoors in natural
light.
This gave their works a freshness and
immediacy that was quite a change from
the stiffer, heavier, more planned
paintings of earlier masters.

Key Points in Impressionism

OPEN COMPOSITION
Impressionist painting also moved away
from the formal, structured approach to
placing and positioning their subjects.
They experimented with unusual visual
angles, sizes of objects that appeared
out of proportion, off-center placement,
and empty spaces on the canvas.

Post-Impressionism

Starry Night-Vincent Van Gogh

Impressionist Painters

Expressionism
From Germany during
the 20 th Century, that
characterize paintings
as Harsh, Brutal,
Introspective, and
Morbid.
The artist uses free
distortion of form and
color
which he
The Scream
- Edvard through
Munch

Lady in Green Jacket - August Macke

You are mine Aleksej Cvelov

The Large Red Horses by Franz Marc

Expressionist Painters

Pointillism
Pointillismis a
technique of painting in
which small, distinct
dots of pure color are
applied in patterns to
form an image.
Georges Seurat and
Paul Signac developed

Georges Seurat: Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Sunday by Paul Signac

Morning, Interior by Maximilien Luce

Abstraction
Indicates a departure
from reality in
depiction of imagery in
art.
This departure from
accurate
representation can be
Partial or Complete
Wassily Kandinsky is

Abstraction
The main characteristic of abstract art is that
it has no recognizable subject.
Some Abstract Artists had theories on the
emotions that were caused by certain colors
and shapes. They planned out their seemingly
random paintings to the last detail.
Other Abstract Artists painted with emotion
and randomness hoping to capture their
emotion and subconscious thoughts on the
canvas.

Abstract Expressionism

The Liver - Gorky

The style of painting that

was totally abstract and
very free in form.
Painting without a
subject, without
meaning, and by chance.
Uses his own emotions
and experience in the
making of painting.

Jackson Pollock No.5, 1948.

Willem de Kooning,
Woman V

'Boon' by James Brooks

Geometric Abstraction
Geometric abstraction
is avisual artform
that uses simple
geometric shapes and
does not represent
anything in the natural
world.
Theo van Doesburg Composition VII (the three graces)

Mechanical Elements,
Fernand Lger

Alexis Marcou's Fractured Light

Minimalism
The term "minimalist" often colloquially
refers to anything that is spare or stripped to
its essentials.
Minimalist artists often would create visual
images that were stripped down and
considered bare by traditionalists.
Piet Mondrian developed an Abstract painting
style that involved straight lines and colored
rectangles. He called this type of painting
"The Style".

Mondrian Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow

Kenneth Noland: Chevrons

Abstract Painters

Cubism
An artistic movement that spanned from
1907 to 1914, and which featured the
abandonment of traditional rules on
perspective in favor of flattened, geometric
representations of objects and people.
Cubism was an innovative art movement
pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque.
In Cubism, artists began to look at subjects
in new ways in an effort to depict three-

Cubism
There were two main types of Cubism:
Analytical Cubism - The first stage of the Cubism
movement was called Analytical Cubism. In this style,
artists would study (or analyze) the subject and break it up
into different blocks. They would look at the blocks from
different angles. Then they would reconstruct the subject,
painting the blocks from various viewpoints.
Synthetic Cubism - The second stage of Cubism introduced
the idea of adding in other materials in a collage. Artists
would use colored paper, newspapers, and other materials
to represent the different blocks of the subject. This stage
also introduced brighter colors and a lighter mood to the
art.

Portrait of Picasso(Juan Gris)

Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin

Picasso: Three Musicians

Cubism Painters

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Juan Gris

Surrealism
An artistic, philosophical,
intellectual and political
movement that aimed to break
down the boundaries of
rationalization to access the
imaginative subconscious.
Surrealism images explored the
subconscious areas of the mind.
The artwork often made little
sense as it was usually trying to
depict a dream or random
thoughts

An eye with a view

Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory

The Son of Man(Rene Magritte)

The Song of Love(Giorgio de Chirico)

Surrealist Painters

Ren Magritte

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

Fauvism
Fauvism, a vibrant and colorful style
of painting, developed by Henri
Matisse and Andre Derain, uses bold
colors, simplifi ed drawing and
expressive brushwork.
The style of lesFauves(French for
"the wild beasts"), a loose group of
early twentieth-century Modern
artists whose works emphasized
painterly qualities and strong color
over the representational or realistic
values retained by Impressionism.
Henry Matisse: Green Line

Pop Art
Pop Art is art made from
commercial items and
cultural icons such as product
labels, advertisements, and
movie stars.
In a way, Pop Art was a
reaction to the seriousness of
Abstract Expressionist Art.
Pop Art is meant to be fun.

Pop Art
Pop Art uses images and icons that are
popular in the modern world like famous
celebrities like movie stars and rock stars,
commercial items like soup cans and soft
drinks, comic books, and any other items
that are popular in the commercial world.
There are a number of ways that artists use
these items to create art such as repeating
the item over and over again, changing the
color or texture of the item, and putting

Eight Elvises(Andy Warhol)

Drowning Girl(Roy Lichtenstein)

Optical Art
Op art, also known
as optical art, is a
style of visual art
that uses optical
illusions.
Op art works are
abstract, with many
better known pieces
in black and white.