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A SIMPLE STILL LIFE in ACRYLIC

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A still life is an arrangement of smallish, hand held objects. It is a very old school and style of painting that was both the painters bread and butter and a way for them to practice techniques and show off.

There are three schools of Still life Vanitas, Xenia and Natura Morta.

Still life painting is still being heavily practices toady in many different ways. Here we will look at Georgio Morandi

Marandi was an Italian on the brink of the big break through with Picasso and Braque and Leger. This was Paris and then he gave it up. He returned to Bologna, to is families house that he shared with his sisters until he dies. The first world war was looming and many stores surround artists as to their ties. Their political ties and Morandi was no different. As to why they may have went the way they did is up for debate. Was it sacrifice or self serving. Was it to save a family? What it was was never apparently about art making.

Starting with Cezanne late 1800's ans into the 1900's. He carved the objects out of space. His brushstrokes getting smaller and smaller and vertical and horizontal. His goal was to flatten the picture. He wanted no illusion what so ever.

Lesson Plan

Key Objective, use the correct painting process to produce a simple Still Life

Objectives, a)use the painting process to produce a still life b)use correct color mixing using complements c)use rule of thirds for composition Procedure  a)demo, history b)review process c)composition d)review complements e)paint 9x12 still life Materials 9X12 paper, paint, brushes Artists Morandi, Cezanne, Matisse Assessmet a)TIO b)Color and use of color c)Following process d)Composition and point of view

Matisse was only concerned with Line, shape and color. Pattern gradually became a concern also, one pattern battling another. He also desired no illusion of space or depth. Morandi would have known these men as the art circles in which he ran would have seen to that. He too shares some of the same concerns as the painters above. He seemed to split the traditional with the contemporary themes of the time, those being space ,color, the elements and art for art 's sake. he usually would do make sketches and water colors before each painting figuring out composition and space and proportion.