Artistic Inspiration:
Workshop inspiration: Landscape – Earths natural phenomena
Abstract water colour workshop. Artists/ artworks for discussion:
I couldn’t talk about emotive landscape paintings in water colour without using an example of William Turner’s amazing art works.
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, water colourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.
His work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. His entire life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.
Artwork for discussion: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 1820.
This piece drew a lot of comments from the clients they talked about how they could really feel the heat and power of the volcano and were very drawn to the colours of the piece.
The second piece I chose to offer for discussion with the clients was one by Van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in Holland. Hewas a post-Impressionist painter whose work — notable for its beauty, emotion and color — highly influenced 20th-century art.
In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. He struggled with mental illness and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
Artwork for discussion: Starry Night, 1889.
Again this image was a favorite with the clients, they traced their fingers along the swirling patterns, which they said was the wind in the sky.
Workshops kindly funded by the Adelaide Health Foundation, Community Health Initiative Scheme 2019
Supported by The Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland. Special thanks to Alan Carrick, Mary Mooney, Silva Schwer and all the staff, clients and friends of Rose Cottage.
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