artists who paint the head

Painting the Head

Glenn Hirsch

Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi, Brancacci Chapel, Florence

Filippino Lippi

Ilya Repin1850-1930

A leading Russian painter whose realistic works often expressed great psychological depth.

Berthe Morisot1841-1895

A founding member of the Impressionist school of painting, her handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

Emil Nolde (1867 –1956)  A German painter and printmaker, one of the first Expressionists and considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolor painters of the 20th century.  He is known for vigorous brushwork and expressive color.

Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber moods.

Nathan Oliveira1928-2010

Part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, his work was also strongly influenced by Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, as well as European Expressionist masters Oskar Kokoschka,

Edvard Munch, and Max Beckmann,

"I'm not part of the avant-garde. I'm part of the garde that comes afterward, assimilates, consolidates, refines."

 Andrew Wyeth(1917-2009)

  Wyeth said that although he was thought of as a realist, he thought of himself as an abstractionist.

anatomy

skin color

Color and Style

Master studies: each style sees color differently.

On the left is the study (copy); on the right, the student’s self-portrait in the style of the master just studied

From the top down: •Max Beckmann•Alexei Jawlensky•Amedeo Modigliani•Diego Rivera

A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat (Student study of Maurice Quentin de Latour, pastel)

A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat(Student study of David Park, oil)

A master study allows you to confront an (artist) “ancestor.”(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz, pastel)

(Student study of Johannes Vermeer, oil)

(Student study of Orozco, acrylic)

(Student study of Lucien Freud)

(Student study of Paul Gauguin)

“Quotations” in Art History

Angela Pryor (inspired by the Michelangelo on the following slide)

Michelangelo Madonna

Here are a series of reclining goddesses. Each epoch recalls the one before it, each artist

in a ‘dialog’ or ‘dance’ with the past.

This Renaissance painting recalls Roman and Greek traditions.(Titian, late 17th century, Venus of Urbino)

And here is a point of view by one of the few celebrated women painters of the same era as the previous slide.(Artemisia Gentileschi , late 16th century, Cleopatra)

In this wildly controversial painting, Paul Gauguin satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.

(Paul Gauguin, late 19th century)

In this wildly controversial painting, Manet satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.

(Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863)

In this wildly controversial painting, Mel Ramos (c.1960) satirizes the high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.