Painterly Painting Analysis

I made a painting. Not just any painting; a painterly painting. It's flowing, it's creative, it's free and most defining of all, it's spontanious! Today i'll explain how my unamed painterly painting is in fact a painterly painting, but also how it has many of the elements and principles of art within the work. Another topic is how the work will have missing elements and principles and what effect that has on the proper correctness of the painting. Now, you may find yourself wondering, "What the heck does it mean if a painting is painterly"? Good question! The definition of painterly is free and spontanious use of paint, or for example like a kid would paint. Without a purpose or specific goal other than to put colors on the paper in whichever …show more content…
Of all these, I see texture, lines, some shapes and no negative space. The red and green brush strokes that cross over the painting are primary colors that go together and make eachother seem brighter and stand out more. This draws your eye to them and enhancing how well you can see the texture within the strokes. The orange lines going over also draw your eye because it almost looks like I tried to spell over the work but that's not the case. The most common shape in my work are rectangles. Be careful when making a difference between shapes and forms; shapes are 2 dimensional only and forms are 3 dimensional. Lastly for the elements, notice how there is little to no negative space. Everything on the work has paint covering it, which is very typical in, though not exclusive to, American painterly art. Let's move on to the …show more content…
The principles are the rules and guidelines when it comes to juding art, and an artist may choose to focus on one principle when making their art. While painterly paintings are generally supposed to be a free and spontanious use of paint, it's a good idea to be familiar with the principles and maybe have some in mind you're willing to use before going ahead and making your painting. The elements my art contains that I see are proportion, emphasis and unity within a bit of an open composition. You can see where I have cut and moved certain sections on top of eachother giving them different proportions to eachother, one being in front of the other, some being smaller or bigger than others. There's quite a bit of the emphasis on the vibrant brush stokes of green and red corssing accross the chaos, along with the bright orange markings over the middle that looks like writing. Bright colors, along with green and red being complimentary colors, bring a certain emphasis that draws your eyes there while looking at the whole picture. The last principle present is unity, which is present in the chaos. Nothing in this painting looks like it should be going to gether which really makes the painting seem like it all goes