I have just spent a vast amount of time looking up painters
that I like. My goal - i.e. assignment - was to just find everything I like and
get as many images of the paintings by these artists as I can. Then from these
images, choose paintings with elements I would like to use in my own work (such
as a lot of detail or not much detail at all.)
This is so much harder than it sounds because when I
finished choosing all that I like I had well over a thousand images!
One of my all time favorite artists is Edgar Degas and I had
nearly the thousand of his paintings alone! I am supposed to cull it down to
around ten. HA! So far, I have it down to around a hundred paintings, and I
really don’t think I can get it any further! Soooooo I have decided to
just find the ones that contain the most of what I want to do in my own
paintings and use those for the assignment, and make a folder to keep of all of
what I have gathered as my absolute favorites.
It surprised me how well this assignment worked, because I
really thought I had wildly diverse range of what I liked, and while I do
like a lot of differently styled paintings, there are some common elements that
run through the batch! Evidently I’m a fan of vividly colored portraits with
less than clear detail! I already knew this but I didn’t realize that I so
gravitated as strongly toward this subject! Almost every painting I choose was a
single figure with some intensely colored area in the painting.
Some of the artists I chose as my absolute favorites are, (in
no particular order)…
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