Realistic Art with 'not-so-classical' subject matter?
Jay C
traditional art education. I am a kind of person who's not afraid of
saying 'Learn how to draw and paint. damn it!' to those aspiring
artists who whining about classical art and embrace 20th century
con-artist movement.
But... one thing I am really really liberal about is.....the subject
matter.
My drawing/painting skill is not that perfect, but trying to do my
best. Recently I started working on a portrait of.......ahem....my
great role model named Ron Jeremy.
Yes, I am trying to create a portrait of Mr. Ron Jeremy with a
classical portrait technique by doing the B&W layer first and glaze
the colors over. I never tried that kind of method. I am more of an
imprimatura and direct-painting school, but to create a really
detailed portrait of my hero I decided to do this old school painting
style, based on numerous photographic and video references of Mr.
Jeremy I have. After his portrait is done, I'll move onto my next
hero, Peter North.
But...uhm....is there anybody do this sort of stuff beside me? I love
to see more diversed subject matter on realistic paintings.
I want to see some realistic paintings about black & hispanic
community done with the style of 19th century mater painters. Some
great painters did some paintings of rural Chinese scenes, but I
really haven't see paintings about Afro-American and Chicano scenes in
realistic style. Nor have I seen that many Black and Hispanic artists
who strive on classical paintings. Most black artists do more
'primitive looks' and seems to be disinterested in classical way.
I want to see some more un-classical scenes on realistic paintings.
Western scenes are done numerously. People like Howard Terpening and
James Bama already explored native American scenes thoroughly. But
there are so many good suject matters that rarely touched by classical
art.
Imagine 'Pikachu vs. Arbok' painted with pre-raphaelite style!
Xena
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