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Pieter Bruegel Paints Farts
Is the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder the only one to paint farts? I would have thought yes, but no, there’s more than a few childish artists out there that have painted farts. Bruegel’s art may not have been as strange as the bizarre worlds created by Hieronymus Bosch but some of his paintings do come close. They don’t get much stranger than his 1562 work The Fall of the Rebel Angels which depicts a scene from that equally nutty piece of literature, the Book of Revelation. Among the farting beasts and fallen angels are all kinds of weird and horrible creatures.
I have never seen the Fall of the Rebel Angels painting in person, which is owned by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, but with Google’s Art Project we can see the work in great detail. We can zoom in on the farts and other wonders depicted by Bruegel.
Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels. Some kind of weird half man thing with lobster legs clearly doing a fart.
Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels. Another beastly, half human, lizard monster thing farting.
Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels. There’s no farting in this scene, just a few freaks and monsters doing their thing.
Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels. Again, no farts here, just a horrible monster tearing its own stomach open. There’s also a few ugly beasts wearing royal crowns. Ugly beasts still wear crowns today so I guess some things never change 
Here’s the whole painting with all sorts of weird stuff happening.
Find out more about the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium collection at their website here. The collection section of the website can only be seen in French and Dutch but you don’t need to to know the language to look at a work, it’s easy enough to navigate.
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Ah, Vacation…..Time for More Painting!
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| I put aside my oil painting work to take up a sketchbook and watercolors to capture the sights and sounds around me during my trip. |
If you are a painter, you know that sometimes the best thing to do is get away from it all...and do more painting. I was very blessed this summer to take a wonderful vacation with my family to Turkey and Greece. When I travel, I like to keep a notebook that is a memoir of the activities of the trip. But for the first time I decided that instead of doing plein air oil paintings, I would try to do watercolor paintings instead and add them to my travel notebook.
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| I was captivated by the beautiful blue waters I saw during my trip, and tried to recreate the hue on paper. |
I got some advice on a limited palette and equipment from my favorite watercolorist, Alexander Creswell. Alex makes extraordinary paintings of architecture and interiors, and even sail boats-under sail! He's kind of an extreme-sport watercolorist and he recommended a set of primary colors, and burnt sienna. I ended up taking Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light, and Burnt Sienna, in small tubes, and a small plastic folding palette. His most important advice to me was "have fun!"
And, have fun I did. From the beginning of the trip to the end, I did one or two quick sketches a day. I saw quick improvement after my first couple of messy attempts, and rediscovered the pleasure of making art for no reason but the joy of brush in hand, and color on the paper.
The Aegean Sea along the coast of Turkey is unbelievably blue. I was dazzled by the intensity of the color and so beguiled by trying to capture that mesmerizing hue on paper.
Sometimes, we can forget the original spark that got us into this whole "wanna be an artist" mess in the first place: the fun and joy of it! Painting can be magical and addictive! So go on vacation from your regular studio practice and mess around with a new medium, in a new setting, with no expectations except having fun!
I'm back home with a better perspective on how much joy art can bring to my daily life, just through practice and experience.
--Patricia
For more painting instruction from Patricia, check out her latest DVD, Figure Painting: Realistic Skin Tone.
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Variation By Subject
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| Emma Twice, 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 48. All works by Daniel Maidman. |
Over my past posts, we've been discussing shocks to the system as a way of avoiding growing complacent and thoughtless in your art. I shared two of my own tricks—varying my mark-making, and varying my media. But there is another, broader trick I use: varying my subject.
I'm not going to lie to you. My favorite thing in the world is painting nudes. But just because I like doing it doesn't mean it's good for me to do it all the time. Over the past couple of years, I've been working on expanding my oil painting subject matter. Each topic I tackle has forced me to see freshly—to study my subject with new eyes, to evaluate my media with new goals, to refine my vision to make something worthwhile from my new subject.
I have been working on a series of paintings of heavy industrial parts. I decided to restrict my palette to white, blue, gray, and black paint, and to work silver leaf into my compositions.
I've also been working with photographs of pond water taken through a microscope to make paintings of the microscopic life that surrounds us. I took a crack at cityscapes, and I've also been messing around with paintings of animals and flowers.
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| Industrial Object #1, 2011, silver leaf and oil on canvas, 36 x 36. |
Microbiota #1, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 30. |
Jade Street, 2011, oil on canvas, 30 x 24. |
I learned two things from these explorations:
1. I was worried
that if I painted different subjects, my oil paintings wouldn't look like
"me"—like my work. But I think that no matter where I look, my own
personality influences how I see. No matter how diverse the subjects,
when I look at my paintings, they look like my paintings. That's pleasing to know, isn't it?
2. Once again, shocking my system brought new insights and a fresh approach to my "ordinary" work—figurative nudes.
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| Blue Leah #2, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 36. | ||
Life is long and the world is full of interesting things. Trying something new is a risk—it could always turn out to be a waste of time—but I think it's better to see it as an investment. You can bank on what you already know you can do, or you can sink your artistic "savings" of talent and skill into new ventures. The minute you "get good," I encourage you to start considering something you're not good at yet, and work on that.
--Daniel
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Jobless labourer from Sunderland wins fans with his fine art First World War paintings
Father-of-two Thomas Conlon, of Sunderland, began painting only after fulfilling his mother's dying wish that he that he get a university degree Thomas's mother's dying wish had been that he get a degree, and after becoming a mature student he graduated from Sunderland University three years ago with a 2:1 Degree in fine art, specialising in oil ... (more)
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