RSSPainting
Feb 02
Art is as varied as the life from which it springs. Each artist portrays different aspects of the world. A great artist is able to take some aspect of life and give it depth and meaning. To do this he or she will make use of the many devices common to painting. These devices include composition (the arrangement of the objects within a picture), color, form, and texture. A painter does not always need handsome and attractive subjects. Often an ordinary subject is transformed through artistry. The painting November Evening by United States artist Charles Burchfield depicts simple homes and stores typical of many crossroads towns in the Midwest in the 1930s. Beyond the buildings stretches the vast prairie set against a single human figure. A dark autumn sky covers the landscape. Briefly it may be said that artists paint to discover truth and to create order. They put into their pictures our common hopes, ideals, and passions and show us their meaning and their value. Creators in all the arts make discoveries about the wonders and beauties of nature and the dignity and nobility of man. By finding new relationships among objects, new forms, and new colors, they show us things in our environment which we overlooked or ignored.