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Painting : A Search to understand its content, character, convey and analyse


Admin 19-03-2018

Composition

is the term used to describe the arrangement of the visual elements, emotional elements in a painting in such a manner that the viewers eye emphasis on the main aspect and distinctive features of the painting.

Painting

Is a composition to be describe the arrangement of the visual elements and emotional elements organized in a work of art as per defined and described character of principles of art or principles of organization (i.e. Balance, proportion emphasis, variety, movement, rhythm & harmony.)

Painting possesses the potential of work's style, techniques and media and refers to a work's essence, explains what is described and narrated.

To read a painting it is important to know how characteristics of above elements communicate the emotions of an artist. Every painting is a descriptive and narrative in its content for their perceptive observers.

There are two types of essential elements of painting strongly affects the composition and express feelings and understanding of the painting.



1.     Visual Elements : (These components are 'VISIBLE'

  • Colour
  • Form
  • Line
  • Shape
  • Space
  • Texture
  • Value Creates
  • Creates

  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity in the COMPOSITION and COMMUNICATES.
  • Hierarchy
  • Grouping
  • Sequence to the viewer
  • 2.     Emotional Elements : (These components are 'INVISIBLE' and manipulate term to create a memorable)

  • Concepts (Fuels creativity)
  • Imagination (Form an ideas to be creative)
  • Ideation (Creative process of generating, developing and communicating new ideas)
  • Feeling (subtle, elusive) feelings are delicate precise and difficult to describe but possible to achieve)
  • Colour (Expression artist intention or enhance mood)
  • Enliven (Enrich with light & colour and motes cheerful and lively)


  • Objectives of visual elements line, shape, form and colours are observable in paintings.

    1.     Line

    Line has a significant language of communication, which express feelings and emotions through its character. Artist always known by quality and application of lines rendered to express his/her own style

    Prof. Hemant Nagdive

    2.    Shape and Form

    Shape and form defined by lines through different shades, perspective, values and tones. Edges in the painting created by shapes, forms and colours read the brain as a line and contemplate a vision through painting.

    3.     Colour

    Artist interpret instinctive mellifluous (pleasing) and mellow (pleasant) colours to narrate in terms of (hue, saturation and temperature), to create in terms of (harmony, unity, rhythm, emphasis and movement visual path) and articulate to portray his visualisation and emotion to please the eye and attract the attention.

    The elements of work of art acts to occupy the space and content to interpret meaning, describe the visual facts, analyse sensory qualities and judge evaluation on the emotional or specific understanding to accomplish on aesthetic function.



    Painting as to Describe

    As per Pearl S. Buck : painting is a distinctive self-expression of an artist's internal impulse, views, ideas, imagination through external forms of an art work and emotional expression of an art is a manifestation of an anxiety, uneasiness and excitement of an artist


    As per Carrol

    In painting, expression theories emphasizes 'heart's eye' in view of emotions towards passion, feeling and excitement.


    Representational theories

    Emphasizes 'mind's eye' in view of personal vision, thought towards creativity


    In Painting

    Artist infuses and exposes his energized ideas to create a pleasing sense and fuel his creativity to resonate perceptive observers.

    Painting creates a self-expression, gratification and communication of artist thought for their perceptive observer. It is an expression of values like vision and, exploration, creative skill and imagination through visual forms which is clearly related to aesthetic i.e. beauty and taste.

    Prof. Hemant Nagdive



    Aesthetic Beauty in a Work of Art (A theory of beautiful to read an aesthetic pleasure)

    Complexity to simplicity, my personal way to understand

    Theories of beauty and aesthetics are a most arguable, debatable and disputable as well as enduring, endless, and limitless subject related to nature of art. It takes their own time to understand.



    Thinkers like

    Shaftlesbury (शाफ्ट्स्ब्री) Hutchen (हचसन) David Hume(डेव्हिड हयुम) Burke(बुर्क) Immanuel Kant(इम्मॅनुअल क्खन्ट) Schiller(शिलर) Helgel(हॅगोल) Aurther Schopenhauner(आर्थुवा शोपेनहवॉ) Eduard Hanslick (एडुअर्ड हॅन्स्लीक) George Santayana (जॉर्ज सॅन्टीयाना)

    Interpreted their views and thoughts on philosophical concepts, idealistic concept, classical concept, Hedonist concept and discussed in the Form of debate, argument. It is hard to understand and time killing subject to grasp their intended meaning for me.

    My simple way to understand the concerning features of beauty, how it radiates and the essence of aesthetic values and judgement (a part of axiology) pleasing to the senses in view to appreciate, measure and understand the qualities of a product as follow.

    While evaluate the values of painting, BEAUTY at first relates to aesthetic and describes its relevant association with productive values of appreciation and then aesthetic reveals the insightful, distinctive and appreciative abilities in a work of art.



    BEAUTY means the perception of values

    "Values" have a high regard for merits of appreciation, admiration and sensitive in order to achieve a result. Acknowledge pleasure, attraction, and harmony and cherish to influencing attitudes and behaviour. Value is a measure worth includes concepts like efforts, attempts, perseverance, accurate, consistent and precise performance in a work of art. "Beauty" is a combination of qualities that delights the senses. Beauty contributes to perfection. Perfection is beauty, and beauty is art.



    Aesthetic means a sense of perception

    "Perception" is an intellectual process of transforming information through the senses and interprets to see in our mind to judge its pleasing look, feeling of appearance, visually acceptable for admiration and insightful understanding of a work of art. "Aesthetics" is an appreciation of beauty, having a pleasant and pleasing appearance, characteristically descriptive and expressive with the properties of work of art.

    Prof. Hemant Nagdive