Impressionism, post-impressionism and fauvism redeemed my personal art style...
for now these are the three main movements that occurred in Art history that are my inspiration for making art...
in my art, impressionism's credo of capturing the moment using color to suggest space and emotion left an "impression" on me...in my art I don't want to capture renaissance naturalism because
a. I don't have the training so it's a lot of challenge, i won't be able to draw it
b. right now I don't have the dedication to draw figures for five hours a day
c. i like using words to decribe and give "body" to my art
Post-impression is just pushing impressionism a notch higher. I really like Gaugin's and Van Gogh's subjectivity and their bold use of colors...like impressionism, 2-dimensionality is stressed (it seemed that I have a propensity to study the surface of things)...I also have a weakness in rendering 3-dimensionality ( in spite of this, I still like architecture....)
Fauvism-- I didn't about this until today, its greatest master is henri matisse-- he's another inspirational person on my list-- he was positive and he started his art career in his mid thirties (this aspect is really cool, because today, society most likely value and pay attention to "artists" who achieved so many things in their young age-- I haven't even graduated from grade school, and there's already people out there who are really advance--- i don't have anything against them, the media hype is just annoying and discouraging)
--talking about flatness and 2-D-ness, Matisse experimented with using paper as medium in his composition (paper on paper--- pushing paper collage to fine arts status)
----2-dimensionality (the surface exposing superficiality), subjectivity (personal experience, one you most likely know about so one can get a chance to explore out of the "box" and be confident) and colors ( to make abstract emotions almost "tangible" by sight, convey something hard to put in words).
yeaha!
Posted by Michael Diezmos at April 8, 2005 2:24 PM