Oil painting is the Essence of Imagination
In the 1970's Rod Stewart sang the lyrics, "Every picture tells a story" and indeed they do. When we visit an art gallery and gaze upon the works of Da Vinci, Van Gogh and other famous artists, if we look long enough, the paintings seem to come to life. The artist's brush strokes and use of color, tell us so much. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the lady with the smile. Art lovers for centuries have wondered why Mona smiles. As we stare at her oil painted image, stories flash through our minds like the images on a theater screen.
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The longer we stare, the more we come to understand – the lady with the smile. Oil paintings have unique way of ‘talking' to us. The artist captures the person or the scene better than a camera. Photographs are just colorful copies of the real world, paintings ARE the real world. We stand and stare and while we gaze upon the gold framed masterpiece, we lose ourselves in the art, indeed we are alone – alone with the artist. The colors used give us a kind of understanding of what the person who painted this creation was like. We imagine what the artist is telling us, or perhaps telling himself. As we continue our quiet vigil, the picture begins to "speak" to us, telling its story.
There is no need for words – words can be misunderstood or confused. An oil painting speaks silently to us - the brush strokes the words, the colors the story. Paintings touch our thoughts, feelings and memories and therefore can carry us backward or forward in time. When visiting an art gallery, take your time and look at the magic hang from the walls. That magic has lasted many years and it beckons you to understand it.
Make up stories about what you see - chances are what you imagine is exactly what the artist wanted you to imagine. Oil paintings have endured hundreds of years of wars, natural disasters, and political unrest and change, yet still we are amazed by the beauty in the frame. A smiling Mona Lisa, makes us want to know why, portraits of soldiers, sea captains or ladies of grace, make us wonder what life must have been like. The longer we stare, the more we learn. Indeed oil paintings are windows to the past or in some cases, the future. Learning to appreciate the image is learning about the person who painted it. Spending time in galleries viewing oil paintings is therapeutic as you are taken to a world of make-believe and mystery and a world of color and imagination. Indeed oil painting is the essence of imagination.
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Oil Paints: First Choice of Artists Depicting Intuition and Imagination Through Colours
Using Oil Paints
The manner in which a viewer responds to the colours or mixing of colours is quite an interesting subject. But the colours painted with oil have enchanting effects; that is an unbeatable argument. In modern time, too, the paintings done with oil paints are as popular as they were in past. Since the use of oil in painting has become a common aspect, the artists have found the work of painting more convenient. This medium of painting is superior to other mediums, too. Artists have found it a convenient medium, as the pigments suspended in it dry slowly. The oil allows longer time to manipulate colours applied on canvas.
From the time of Jan van Eyck who is known to have produced a stable oil mixture that could be used to bind mineral pigments, the popularity of oil as medium of painting has increased day by day. There is no painter of reckoning who has not used oil paints as his or her medium of painting.
Creativity and the Artists
The artists, especially the painters, are creators in their own way. While standing before their canvases they feel like the masters of their inner worlds. Here the intuition of the artists would be involved; the emotional aspects would be in full command. Before putting his or her first brush on a canvas, an artist does conceive a colourful and meaningful idea in head and heart. Thereafter they recreate the whole imagination on canvas or a paper with the help of the artistic skill they possess. While doing this they invest the sensitiveness they own in their heart. That factor plays a pivotal role. While doing their work the artists mostly rely on the forms of the objects to be painted. With colours and brushes, the master painters create several sets of forms on canvas or on paper.
Thus an artist conceives and recreates what he or she has seen within the perspectives of the eyes. And then these perspectives are being transferred onto the canvas. Oil paints help much positively in recreating the imaginative world that would be roaming in the minds of the artists. The styles of painting may be different from one artist to another. It could be impressionist style of painting, realistic style or a simple portrait making. The purpose of the artists is to let the eyes of the viewers enjoy and understand the art. But the range of the hues and shades available in the oil paints offer make it possible for every artist to depict what he or she wants.
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