Oil painting is a medium preferred by a lot of artists. Among the fluid methods, it is the most flexible when it comes to the production of effects one might need to create a visual stunner. The range of possible textures and color mixtures or gradations can easily be achieved on different surfaces but most notably on canvas and wooden panel.
The art world, across centuries and traditions, was graced by a lot of aesthetically superior and provocative examples of oil painting. Here are three of the most memorable and arresting works in this medium:
The Old Guitarist
This oil on panel painting by Pablo Picasso, arguably the most formidable Western artist during the first half of the twentieth century, is from the Blue Period. The temporal frame is a means of classifying works where he used a monochromatic palette, typically depicting oppressed figures and characters.
The Milkmaid
The Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was quite famous as a genre painter of domestic interior scenes. Like a lot of his works, this painting has a photographically realistic finish that prominently features Vermeer’s keen understanding of the intricacies of chiaroscuro.
American Gothic
This iconic and quintessential American artwork by Grant Wood is representative of Regionalism, a movement that championed representational images of rural America. There is something completely anachronistic but deliciously appropriate (to the subject matter) about its style of realism, which owes a great deal to Northern Renaissance painters like Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Vijaya Prakash Boggala loves oil and acrylic painting. Learn more about his other inclinations by clicking here.
The art world, across centuries and traditions, was graced by a lot of aesthetically superior and provocative examples of oil painting. Here are three of the most memorable and arresting works in this medium:
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The Old Guitarist
This oil on panel painting by Pablo Picasso, arguably the most formidable Western artist during the first half of the twentieth century, is from the Blue Period. The temporal frame is a means of classifying works where he used a monochromatic palette, typically depicting oppressed figures and characters.
The Milkmaid
The Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was quite famous as a genre painter of domestic interior scenes. Like a lot of his works, this painting has a photographically realistic finish that prominently features Vermeer’s keen understanding of the intricacies of chiaroscuro.
American Gothic
This iconic and quintessential American artwork by Grant Wood is representative of Regionalism, a movement that championed representational images of rural America. There is something completely anachronistic but deliciously appropriate (to the subject matter) about its style of realism, which owes a great deal to Northern Renaissance painters like Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Image source: commons.wikimedia.org
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