Monday, May 16th, 2011
titleDesign Relationships between Painting and other Visual Arts/titlepThe philosophy and spirit of a particular period in painting has usually been reflected in many of its other visual arts. The ideals and aspirations of ancient cultures, of the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical periods of Western art and, more recently, of the 19th-century Art Nouveau and Secessionist movements were displayed in a large amount of the architecture, interior design, furniture, fabrics, ceramics, dress design, and handicrafts, as well as in the fine arts, of their times. Following the Industrial Revolution, with the redundancy of hand-craftmanship and the absence of direct communication between the fine artist and larger society, general society, idealistic efforts to unite the arts and crafts in service to the community were made by William Morris in Victorian England and by the Bauhaus in 20th-century Germany. Although their aims were not fully successful, their influences, like those of the short-lived de Stijl and Constructivist movements, have been huge, particularly in architectural, furniture, and typographic design./p pMichelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were innovative painters, sculptors, and architects. Although no artists since have excelled in such a wide range of creative forms, leading 20th-century painters expressed their ideas in many other mediums. In graphic design, for example, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and Raoul Dufy produced posters and illustrated books; Andr Derain, Fernand L ger, Marc Chagall, Mikhail Larionov, Robert Rauschenberg, and David Hockney designed for the stage; Joan Mir , Georges Braque, and Chagall worked in ceramics; Braque and Salvador Dal designed jewelry; and Dal , Hans Richter, and Andy Warhol made movies. Many of these, with other modern painters, have also been sculptors and printmakers and have designed for fabrics, tapestries, mosaics, and stained glass, while there are few mediums of the visual arts that Pablo Picasso did not work in and revitalize./p pPainters have been taught by the imagery, techniques, and design of other visual arts. One of the earliest of these influences was very probably from the theatre, where ancient Greeks are regarded as the first to employ the illusions of optical perspective. The discovery or reappraisal of design techniques and imagery in art-forms and processes of other cultures has been an important stimulus to the development of more contemporary styles of Western painting, whether or not their traditional significance have been fully understood. The influence of Japanese woodcut prints on Synthetism and the Nabis, for example, and of African sculpture on Cubism, and the German Expressionists helping to create visual vocabularies and syntax with which to express new visions and ideas. The invention of photography and film exposed painters to new aspects of nature, while eventually prompting others to abandon representational painting altogether. Painters of everyday life, such as Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, douard Vuillard, and Bonnard, exploited the design tricks of camera cutoffs, close-ups, and unconventional viewpoints so as to provide the sensation of sharing an intimate picture space with the figures and objects in the painting./p pLooking for a href=http://www.discountart.com.au/support/sitepage.asp?Page=Watercolour^Paintwatercolour paint/a or a href=http://www.discountart.com.au/support/sitepage.asp?Page=Watercolour^Brusheswatercolour brushes/a? The a href=http://www.discountart.com.au/support/sitepage.asp?Page=Watercolour^Paintswatercolour paints/a at Discount Art are top quality and are available online. Visit today./p