Paintin’ be a mode uh capturin’, documentin’ and ‘espressin’ de varied creative intents.
Paintin’s kin be naturalistic and representashunal, photographic, abstract, be loaded wid narrative content, symbolism, emoshun o’ be political in nature.
A large po’shun uh de histo’y uh paintin’ be dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; sites uh dis kind’a paintin’ range fum artwo’k depictin’ mah’dological figures on pottery t’biblical scenes rendered on de interio’ walls and ceilin’ uh De Sistine Chapel t’depicshuns uh de human body itself as some spiritual subject.
Intensi’y
Whut enables paintin’ be de puh’cepshun and representashun uh intensity. Every point in space gots different intensity, which kin be represented in paintin’ by brother and honky and all de gray shades between.
In practice, painters kin articulate shapes by juxtaposin’ surfaces uh different intensity; by usin’ plum colo’ (of de same intensity) one kin only represent symbolic shapes.
Colo’
Colo’ and tone is de essence uh paintin’ as pitch and rhydm is of beat. Colo’ be highly subjective, but gots observable psychological effects, aldough dese kin diffa’ from one culture t’de next. Man! Black be associated wid mournin’ in de West, but in de East, honky is. Some painters, deo’eticians, scribblers and scientists, includin’ Goede, Kandinsky, Newton, gots written deir own colo’ deo’y.
Mo’eova’ de use uh language be only some generalisashun fo’ some colo’ equivalent. Man! De wo’d “red”, fo’ ‘esample, kin cova’ a wide range uh variashuns on de pure red uh de visible spectrum uh light.
Rhydm
Rhydm be impo’tant in paintin’ as well as in beat. Rhydm be basically some pause inco’po’ated into some body (sequence). Dis pause allows creative fo’ce t’intervene and add new creashuns—fo’m, melody, colo’ashun. De distribushun uh fo’m, o’ any kind’a info’mashun be of crucial impo’tance in de given wo’k uh art and it directly affects de esdetical value uh dat wo’k.
Variashuns
Modern artists gots ‘estended da damn practice uh paintin’ considerably t’include, fo’ ‘esample, collage, which began wid Cubism and be not paintin’ in de strict sense. Some modern painters inco’po’ate different materials such as sand, cement, straw o’ wood fo’ deir texture.
Skools
Modern and Contempo’ary Art gots moved away fum de histo’ic value uh craft and documentashun in favour uh concept; dis led some t’say in de 1960s dat paintin’, as some serious art fo’m, be wasted. Dis gots not deterred da damn majo’ity uh livin’ painters fum continuin’ t’practice paintin’ eida’ as whole o’ part uh deir wo’k.
Clearly de vitality and versatility uh paintin’ in de 21st century belies de premature declarashuns uh its demise. Characterized by de idea uh pluralism, in an epoch when dere be no consensus, (no’ need dere be), as t’a representative style uh de age. Dere be an nuthin goes attitude dat prevails.
Every artistic facet be filled t’capacity. Consequently magnificent and impo’tant wo’ks uh art continue t’be made albeit in some wide variety uh styles and aesdetic tempuh’ments, de marketplace bein’ left t’judge merit.
