Stories about art: what the artist draws

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Fine art is perhaps the most ancient of the spiritual manifestations of humanity. Even in the primitive period, the first rock paintings appeared. Even then, people were characterized by aesthetic searches, and the desire for beauty was born as a need to express themselves, to speak out, to reveal their understanding of the world.

What I see is what I create

So what does the artist draw? In fact, what he sees around him. Or reproduces those moments that happened to him before and made a special impression on him. In this case, the painter restores events, pictures from memory or uses sketches, sketches, sketches. Thus, it turns out that the artist draws a variety of phenomena of reality. Depending on how he does it, his work belongs to the realistic direction, fantasy, surrealism, etc. However, this explanation cannot be considered complete. Indeed, more often than not, the more talented a person is, the more original, individual, independent in his views and views. And it captures on canvas or paper not everything in a row, but only deeply affectedhis. Therefore, it can be said that an artist draws, if, of course, he follows his talent, and does not sell himself, not only the surrounding, but also his inner world. After all, paintings in the visual arts are not photographs. This is a work of art created with paints and brushes, pencils and charcoal, i.e. what is the working tool of the master. It embodies the thoughts and feelings of the author, his dreams and hopes, ethical, aesthetic, moral values. And one more answer to the question “what does the artist draw?” could be like this: your own universe.

Painting genres

And now more about the genres and forms of fine art. Painting is divided into easel and monumental. Monumental - these are frescoes, wall paintings inside and outside the premises. Easel - these are those drawings, during the creation of which the author puts paper or hangs a canvas on an easel. He can work "in nature", indoors - the place does not play any role. As for genres, they also have their own specifics. For example, an artist who draws animals is an animal painter. Think cartoons about animals. They are called animalistic. A portrait painter is someone who works in the portrait genre. Pushkin by Orest Kiprensky is a classic example of the genre.

Images of wildlife are transferred to the canvas by a landscape painter. Here the works of Shishkin, Levitan, and other brilliant authors come to mind. But since this genre is very diverse in its manifestations, it has its own gradation within it. So, the artists who paint the sea,received the name "marinists" (from "marina" - the sea). And here one cannot do without the name of Aivazovsky - it was he who first of all became famous in this genre from Russian artists. Fruits and flowers in vases, various things that are not related to living objects, are depicted in a still life. The name of the genre is translated as "dead nature".

Mashkov with his famous "Strawberry and white jug" is one of the most illustrative examples. The historical theme is reflected in historical painting. Repin created a brilliant painting, whose hero, Ivan the Terrible, kills his son. Surikov also worked in the genre of historical painting (the most famous painting is Boyar Morozova). Genre, decorative, religious, architectural - these are the well-known pictorial genres.

Russian artists left their bright mark in each of them!