How Do You Paint Like An Expressionist?
How to Paint Like an Expressionist Friday March 23, 2007 Though I’m sure some art-history buffs are likely to say otherwise, from everything I’ve read about Expressionism it seems the individual artists now labeled as Expressionists more or less made it up as they went along, following their instincts as to what color to use, when and where. Color didn’t have to be realistic. Matisse believed “the invention of photography had released painting from the need to copy nature”, leaving him free to “present emotion as directly as possible and by the simplest means”. And Van Gogh tried to explain to
How to Paint Like an Expressionist Friday March 23, 2007 Though I’m sure some art-history buffs are likely to say otherwise, from everything I’ve read about Expressionism it seems the individual artists now labeled as Expressionists more or less made it up as they went along, following their instincts as to what color to use, when and where. Color didn’t have to be realistic. Matisse believed “the invention of photography had released painting from the need to copy nature”, leaving him free to “present emotion as directly as possible and by the simplest means”. And Van Gogh tried to explain to h
