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Exhibition Text
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Title: Landscape of the Wisconsin river Islandof Wisconsin River Island
Size: 24n x 24in Medium: Acrylic Paint on Canvas Date: 11/19/19 |
Landscape of the Wisconsin river Island, my piece was influenced by two of Henri Matisse's art works, landscape paintings, "Landscape at Collioure," and "The Joy of Life." My piece is influenced by technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line. With these concepts used from my inspirations I created an expressive piece of a landscape, colors used were colors that I felt would give the landscape the view of how I saw and felt of the island and landscape at the time.
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Inspiration
Landscape at Collioure by Henri Matisse
“MoMA Learning.” MoMA, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/henri-matisse-landscape-at-collioure-1905/. The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse
Matisse, Henri. “The Joy of Life, 1905 - 1906 - Henri Matisse.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/the-joy-of-life-1906. |
There are two inspirations that influenced the creation of my landscape painting. "Landscape at Collioure," by Henri Matisse and "The Joy of Life," also by Henri Matisse. What influenced and inspired my work from these inspiration was technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line.
"Landscape at Collioure," by Henri Matisse was my first inspiration. This inspiration influenced my work with technique, function/purpose and formal elements of color, shape and line. The technique that Matisse uses in "Landscape at Collioure," is a short brush stroke technique which I used in my piece, I incorporated short brush strokes. Matisse uses short brush strokes to create his ideal view of Collioure. Function and purpose in "Landscape at Collioure," was created to express through color, shape and line, which I took to express my look on the island of the Wisconsin river as Matisse did so at Collioure. My second inspiration that I took to, "The Joy of Life," also by Henri Matisse. In this artwork I took a different approach to influence. "The Joy of Life," has a different style to it as "Landscape at Collioure." The Joy of Life," influenced by work in function and purpose but also color, how color is used to set a setting and atmosphere. Every color used in this painting is bright, full of color, this depicts the joy of life. A beautiful landscape filled with life, trees, plants, people. Similar to mine I used colors that I think the island looked like to me. The Function and purpose of both pieces was to express through color, line shape and other formal elements. |
Planning Sketches/Experimentation
Here is how my work area looked when creating this piece. The technique used was a create as you paint, which is why the paint in these picture is everywhere. I used mainly primary colors and if I needed to crate a color I mixed my primary colors and created them that way. Overall this is how my station looked as I painted. Mixing as I went really helped me experiment with new colors. The picture on the left is has colors mixed with green and white just in different shades. Same is on the right blue and white is used to create different shades.
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Here the image that I used to copy my image onto the canvas.This is a grided out image that has the same amount of squares that my canvas has. Mainly for planing I used the grid technique to set up the image to draw it on to the canvas.
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Construction of Canvas Process
The very first step to creating the landscape is to first create the canvas. The canvas I put together was a 2 feet by 2 feet canvas.
The first step was to gather all the material I will need in order to create my canvas. That includes 4 stretcher bars, staple gun, hammer, scissors, gesso and a role of cotton canvas. Once setting all of the material out, I first armed the 4 stretcher bars together, creating a square. Then with the staple gun I put three staples in to each corner of the square securing it. After securing the base of the canvas I then rolled out the canvas, placed the armed stretcher on to it to measure how much I canvas I will need to cut. I cut about 5 to 6 inches away form the stretcher of each side making the rolled canvas about over 2 feet by 2 feet. After cutting the canvas I then folded each side over the stretchers putting 3 staples in each side. The three staples were just to securing for now. After that I then made sure the front side of the canvas was tight enough and not very loose. The next step was to cut the excesses canvas I was not going to use, so I did with the scissors. After cutting the excesses cloth I was left with a bit of canvas in the corners of the stretcher, so what I did was grouped the excesses bunch of canvas with my hand, put four staples into to lower part of it to secure it and then cut the excesses bit of canvas straight off. Next was to add the renaming staples to the back of the canvas to secure it for good. I then cleaned off the little string bits of canvas that was left behind, then I was ready to add the gesso. The next step was to gesso the canvas so for that all I needed was the gesso, a brush and a cup to put the gesso in. I set my canvas onto a stand, to secure my canvas while I put gesso onto it. I poured gesso into a cup, then with the brush I started to put gesso onto it from left to right. When gessoing up my canvas I made sure that I got every bit of canvas with the gesso. I let the gesso sit for a day to dry, once dried I was ready to grid my image on to the canvas. |
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Process of Painting
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The first step I took for griding my image onto the canvas was to lay out all of the material I was going to use, which included a ruler, pencil, marker and the printed image I was going to use.
After that I first started to grid my image that I printed out on a regular 11 inch by 8 inch paper. I made sure that each square was even. Next I grided the canvas and for that I did some conversions to have the same proportional number of squares on my canvas that I have on my smaller grid, then with a big ruler and pencil I grided the canvas. Next I started to draw my image on to the canvas starting with the main island located in the middle of the picture. I sketched the image with organic lines and shapes to mimic the island. Next I could start to paint I first started with painting the water. The water is made up of blue and white, but with those two colors I created different shades of blue. Some of blue shades that I created were shades with heavy blue, some light blue and some in the middle. When adding the the shades of blue I tried to use a similar style that Matisse would use, which was short brush strokes. I started of with dark blue and then transitioned to a lighter blue getting closer to adding more white. After completing the water I moved to creating the rocks of the island. The rocks will be made up of red, orange, white and brown. I mixed different combinations, with all of the colors used and then used short brush strokes. The brush strokes were some what random. I went from left to right. Next was to create the green forest area. For this I used similar to the blue different variations of green, light green dark green and a neutral green. Then adding the green I used short brush strokes but with a turn to them. This created wavy short brush strokes. Next was to create the sky and for this I used black and white to create grey. I started with adding short brush strokes of grey from left to right and then I stated to incorporate white to the sky. At the end I looked over everything and fixed any thing that seemed off. |
Critique
There were many similarities and differences with in my piece and "Landscape at Collioure," by Henri Matisse. A similarity would be technique when appropriating the work. In "Landscape at Collioure," Matisse uses short brush strokes, when adding color and the paint. Just as I do in my piece I used short brush strokes.
A difference would be the formal element of space. In my piece I have very little spacing with in my work compared to "Landscape at Collioure." Matisse uses short brush strokes leaving many space between the strokes. |
There were many similarities and differences with in my piece and "The Joy of Life," by Henri Matisse. Firstly a similarity between both artworks would be function and purpose. "The Joy of Life," was created as a expressive piece. The piece expresses the feeling in which Matisse feels and how he depicts Collioure a town in France. He depicts a Arcadian landscape. Every color used in this painting is bright, full of color, this depicts the joy of life. This is simalar to mine as I created my piece to depict the view of the Wisconsin river Island.
A difference would be technique used. Although we share similar color we don't share technique. "The Joy of Life," uses a more smooth blending technique in this piece compared to his other pieces. My piece uses his more fauvism technique with more short brush strokes. |
Reflection
When creating the landscape there was many challenges and struggles but I pushed through them. In the process of creating the landscape I learned many new things through my struggles and experiments. I learned how to better blend my colors and also learned how to make different colors that fit best and were similar to my inspirations. The most challenging part of creating my piece
was creating and mixing colors to try and replicate the colors from my inspirations. The creation of my piece was very long, longer then I expected. If I were to redo or improve my piece I would blend my colors better and also improve my brush strokes, to better imitate Matisse style.
was creating and mixing colors to try and replicate the colors from my inspirations. The creation of my piece was very long, longer then I expected. If I were to redo or improve my piece I would blend my colors better and also improve my brush strokes, to better imitate Matisse style.
Act Questions
1)Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
I was inspired by "Landscape at Collioure," by Henri Matisse and "The Joy of Life," also by Henri Matisse. What I took from these inspirations was technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line.
2)What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach the author has regarding my inspiration would be to express through technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line.
3)What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
A generalization that I've discovered while researching my two inspirations would be the emphasize of line, shape, and color and emphasis in which both paintings hold also an emphasize in expressing these formal elements.
4)What was the central idea or theme around your inspiration research?
A central idea or theme around my inspiration research was the sense of expressionism through the use of variety of color, simple shape and technique.
5)What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
An inference that I made while reading my research was that both of my inspirations were made to really express emotion through the use of strong color, simple shape, line and technique.
I was inspired by "Landscape at Collioure," by Henri Matisse and "The Joy of Life," also by Henri Matisse. What I took from these inspirations was technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line.
2)What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach the author has regarding my inspiration would be to express through technique from one, function/purpose and the formal elements of color,shape and line.
3)What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
A generalization that I've discovered while researching my two inspirations would be the emphasize of line, shape, and color and emphasis in which both paintings hold also an emphasize in expressing these formal elements.
4)What was the central idea or theme around your inspiration research?
A central idea or theme around my inspiration research was the sense of expressionism through the use of variety of color, simple shape and technique.
5)What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
An inference that I made while reading my research was that both of my inspirations were made to really express emotion through the use of strong color, simple shape, line and technique.