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Spring Planting
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Rich soil awakens from a Winter sleep.
Young vines take hold of slender supports. Sunlight nurtures the moistened fields with a promise of a colorful harvest to come. |
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Concept
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| A painting will have much more impact on the viewer if it has a focused concept. In other words, the painting should be about something, and not just a pretty scene. This painting of the view from an old winery, focuses on the aesthetic beauty created by a haphazard arrangement of geometric patterns and a deep perspective.
TYPES OF CONCEPT Many types of concept have been used throughout the centuries. Here are three:
• emotional
A concept may be a particular emotion or feeling you have when observing a place or subject. For example: calm and serenity, energy and excitement, grace, friendship, isolation, grandeur, etc. If
• aesthetic Your concept may derive from your aesthetic sensibility - the beauty you find in a subject that others may not have noticed. Look for beauty everywhere even in the most unlikely places. I have seen wonderful paintings of refrigerators doors, plastic makeup bottles, even a bathroom. It is not the subject matter that is important, it is • descriptive The concept may be purely descriptive in nature that highlights some characteristic of an object or subject that is not purely emotional or aesthetic.
SUBJECT MATTER What subjects should an artist paint? A good guideline is that it should be a subject that the artist feels some emotion about. If the artist has no feeling about the subject then you can be sure the painting will also have no feeling. |