finishing touches in painting: detail through precision and detail through improvised texture
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Finishing Touches:
Detail through Precision and Patience (Detail is the Life of Painting)
Detail through Improvisation and Texture (Fluid Abstraction)
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
Marie-Genevieve BouliarSelf-Portrait 1792
Marie-Genevieve Bouliar 1792Marie-Gabrielle Capet, 1783
Before the French Revolution After
Two artist self-portraits
Detail is the life of painting
Jacob van Ruisdael
Franz Hals
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)
Known for depictions of women from Greek mythology and Arthurian legend, a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement which sought to reform art by rejecting what it considered the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo.
In contrast, the they wanted a return to the abundant detail, intense colors and complex compositions of Renaissance Italian art as typified by Botticelli.
“Pre-Raphaelite”
John William Waterhouse, 1896
“Mannerist”
Agnolo di Cosimo, aka Bronzino, 1545
St. Cecilia, 1895
John William Waterhouse, English, 1849-1917
John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1903
Jose Jimenez y Aranda
Holy week in Seville 1879
fluid abstraction
Helen Frankenthaler Fred Martin
Mark Rothko
Helen Frankenthaler
Mark Rothko
Watercolors
1940-1947
Mark Rothko, watercolor
Mark Rothko, watercolor
Fred Martin
Ink on paper
1980-1985
Fred Martin
Fred Martin
Fred Martin
Pam Pitt
student work, 2013-14