Artistic references

Artist's Periods of different styles

 

Artist's Periods

LIFELIKE

Nature scenes and animals depicted in a lifelike manner.

 

SURREAL

 

 

GOTHIC

 

Haunting images set in cinematic lighting.  Natural landscapes and figures appear reduced in form.  Somber pallet, and use of shadow become typical.  Gestural brushstrokes and hatching is used to create both depth and movement.

 

ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES

Uses large blocks of color to depict a landscape.  Variations within create depth, light, form, and what ever objects within that are seen by the viewer become the subject.  Viewers might be inclined to invent objects through the gestures and shapes.

 

NIGHT TIME LANDSCAPES

As Monet captures sunlight within his paint, the Night Landscapes are intended to capture the moonlight.  These types of paintings may resemble the likes of the Abstract Landscape type paintings.

 

NON-OBJECTIVE

 

Non-objective is different than abstract in that abstract is an object that is reduced in form or distorted, while non-objective compositions begin without an object.  Most of these type of paintings do not have an up or down.  The composition should work which ever way it is hanged.

ILLUSTRATION

Usually ink drawings with encoded lyrics.  The influence of each period is found in illustrations such as this.    

ANIMAL FORM

 

Animals are depicted in a way that shows their personality, natural movement, reduced forms, gestural studies, distorted or anatomically precise figures.

 

 

 

 

Academic References

 

Late Renaissance

Susan Stanek's Venus. Watercolor.

Susan Stanek

Venus of Urbino.  1538. Oil.

Titian

Impressionism

Sunset in Trees.  Oil pastel.

Susan Stanek

Impression Sunrise.  1872.  Oil.

Claude Monet

Romanticism

Gothic.  Oil.

Susan Stanek

Cloister Graveyard in the Snow.  1810.  Oil.

Caspar David Friedrich

Art Nouveau

 

The Peacock's Room.  Ink.

Susan Stanek

The Peacock Skirt.  1894.  Ink.

Aubrey Beardsley

 

Other influences:

 Art Movements:   Fantasy, Dada, Color Field, Abstract, Mannerism, German Expressionism..

Artists:  Matisse, Rothco, Dali, Monet, O'Keeffe, Rembrandt, Andrew Wyeth.

 

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