Event Title
Large Scale Paintings
Location
CSU 202
Start Date
27-4-2009 8:00 AM
End Date
27-4-2009 10:00 AM
Student's Major
Art
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Brian Frink
Mentor's Department
Art
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
This creative project explores the idea of physical body movement in the act of painting. This is done by altering the size, content and characteristics of the artwork. Instead of limiting motion to my arms and shoulders to paint a picture the process forced me to incorporate my entire body. My process in creating large art work was investigating time in imderstanding historic and current artists, creating preliminary works in drawing and printmaking and finally to produce large-scale artwork from successful layouts. For this creative project, I researched three artists, Claude Monet, Willem De Kooning and Cecily Brown. These artists are all from different art movements and are known for their large expressionistic art pieces. My goal was to understand their approach and reason for their large-scale works. My paintings have changed from small intimate pieces, to large dramatic pieces. I have realized the size of the painting places the viewer in a different environment, develops a greater meaning and raises the impact of the message being presented. Creating monumental artworks breaks down boundaries of area and space for the viewer, alters the action of placing paint and evokes emotion with the use of brush strokes and body gesture.
Large Scale Paintings
CSU 202
This creative project explores the idea of physical body movement in the act of painting. This is done by altering the size, content and characteristics of the artwork. Instead of limiting motion to my arms and shoulders to paint a picture the process forced me to incorporate my entire body. My process in creating large art work was investigating time in imderstanding historic and current artists, creating preliminary works in drawing and printmaking and finally to produce large-scale artwork from successful layouts. For this creative project, I researched three artists, Claude Monet, Willem De Kooning and Cecily Brown. These artists are all from different art movements and are known for their large expressionistic art pieces. My goal was to understand their approach and reason for their large-scale works. My paintings have changed from small intimate pieces, to large dramatic pieces. I have realized the size of the painting places the viewer in a different environment, develops a greater meaning and raises the impact of the message being presented. Creating monumental artworks breaks down boundaries of area and space for the viewer, alters the action of placing paint and evokes emotion with the use of brush strokes and body gesture.
Recommended Citation
Magnuson, Amy. "Large Scale Paintings." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 27, 2009.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2009/oral-session-01/1
