William Scott (1913 – 1989) British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. (wiki)
Yesterday I posted charcoal drawings by William Scott. Today I’m posting his paintings. I look at these as a series of compositional experiments. I like to look at each object that he separated, grouped. I look at the uncomfortable comedy, the energy charge each shape gets in different placements with other shapes, and how they associate with the edge of the canvas. If you think about composition like a game, it’s more funner. Composition for the win!!!
William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them. “Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. …
1914-1955 Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. After suffering from depression, in the wake of a disappointing meeting with a disparaging art critic on March 16, 1955 he committed …
In Friday’s post I bragged about the drawings created in my recent Painterly Figures with Tone class. The earlier post shared how beautiful a drawing can be when the figure is sketched with no more or less attention than the wall behind it, with no outlines or delineations of form, only scribbles of tone. Today’s …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10630″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] My last post was about Botticelli’s Squidgy Feet. In that post, I described Venus’ feet: “These hams are worms. Those are some long second toes, a sign of intelligence, say some. A second toe as long as a finger can be a very attractive feature…” The next day I received …
William Scott’s Paintings
William Scott (1913 – 1989) British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. (wiki)
Yesterday I posted charcoal drawings by William Scott. Today I’m posting his paintings. I look at these as a series of compositional experiments. I like to look at each object that he separated, grouped. I look at the uncomfortable comedy, the energy charge each shape gets in different placements with other shapes, and how they associate with the edge of the canvas. If you think about composition like a game, it’s more funner. Composition for the win!!!
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