Giancarlo's Art Talent

[JohnT]

Didn't you leave?

[TCO]

Originally posted by Alexnm
Nice painting, Fez, you're really getting better.

You chose an interesting "inspiration" (David is one of my favorites too), but don't forget that he had a strong sense of composition.

Take "The Oath of the Horatii", for instance.

Notice how the lines converge to the same point, balancing the figures and leading the viewer's eye to what he wants to highlight. Notice how the characters are being "boxed" by the arches behind them (the white lines I drawed). And the women at right are seemingly disturbing the balance, but they are nicely countered by the light/shadow difference behind them. There are other composition elements here, but the main thing is that, being from a classical painting background, which was somehow reminiscent of the early Renaissance (especially Piero della Francesca and Uccello, for the strong notions of composition and balance), David emphasized that aspect in his paintings.

Your painting suffers, in my opinion, from an unbalancing problem. The image of Patton is too heavy in contrast with the spartan background. Other than that, good work.

I'm by no means an art expert, just a mere spectator.

Sounds like you know your stuff. Maybe start a real art thread?

[TCO]

Originally posted by JohnT
Didn't you leave?

Gia-pet or me?

[JohnT]

Gia-pet. He keeps teasing me with his absences and threats of absences, but then he keeps coming back! What's up with that?

[SpencerH]

Overall I'd say that it shows promise. I look forward to more

I think the main problem is the pillar.

Did you mean to have the pillar as the co-focus of the painting? In your work there is almost an optical illusion where the eye wants to put the pillar at the same distance as Patton but the brain wants to put it behind him. This may be the perspective problem that Boris mentioned.

If you didnt mean to have the pillar as a co-focus then the pillar is in too much detail and the lighting is confused. From the shadows on Patton, the light must be behind the pillar but the front of the pillar is brightly lit. If the light is from the front then the shadows on Patton are wrong and the far background (wall?) is underlit. Compare your pillar to the pillars in the oath of Horatii.

[Sava]

Nice work Fez. Sorry I can't offer any intelligent criticism or compliment, I'm not much of an art person (although I'm going to the Institute of Art in Chicago... isn't that funny? ). I look forward to subsequent postings of your work. Pretty soon you'll be a wine sipping dirty liberal artist.

[Az]

I liked it. The head is somewhat misshaped, but generally, it was good.


I didn't understand your beef with Boris, though,.

[Giancarlo]

My art teacher helped me with the settings on the head.. it may seem misshaped to you, but I worked with what I had. I did the proper enlargements of the photo I worked with.

I still see nothing wrong with the pillar... but hey that is from my own eyes.

I also think the picture I took didn't do justice to my painting. I will try to snap some more under better lighting circumstances.

[MattHiggs]

I thought you said you had talent?