Sunday, May 31, 2009


Chinese oil painters offer 100% handmade oil paintings on various subjects and styles. Real art is always expensive, even if it is a imitation. Cost advantages in China make it possible to offer reasonable price real art to customers in every corner of the world. Most of the oil painters were strictly trained and cultivated when they were in schools and colleges, this helps them to handle all classic style commissions easily, not only Chinese oil painting.

Thousands of oil paintings were sold annually and also they maintain the quality and the hand-made process. When painters get a drawing, they sketch it by pencil on the white canvas, it's no wonder, and even great oil painting masters use pencils, to create the first layer. At this instant, the oil painting is still rough and you can only see some big color blocks. One or two days afterward, it dries, and the painter begins on the second layer. Usually a piece of imitation comes into being when third layer is done, if no correction is needed.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

In our day today life we all might have undergone several paintings but only very few of them stay with our heart. So, we were mesmerized by such kind of artist by their paintings one such artist is Ravi Varma the very famous and well known artist.

In our inherited home, there were framed copies of Ravi Varma’s famous paintings. Ravi Varma’s painting collections still stays on our eyes and never want to be lost. Several artists and fans were inspired by his paintings so as, he had stayed a big role model among them.

But a great injustice has been done to the artist Ravi Varma in our country because he used modern hues and oils in his work and because of the western influence in his paintings. The critics said his was not Indian art for this reason. But, Ravi Varma is not only among India's greatest artists, but also a great patriot. His illustration of the beauty of the Indian woman is unequalled to any Indian art.

Friday, May 22, 2009


Learn tips to present your paintings :

  • Usually acrylic paints go dry so fast, so squeeze only required paint out of a tube.
  • Always have a piece of cloth next to your water jar and get into the habit of wiping your brushes on it after you raise them. This avoids the water drops running down the ferrule and onto your painting, making blotches.
  • If the paint is applied thickly – either straight from the tube or with very little water added – or if mixed with a little white, all acrylic colors can be opaque. If the paint is diluted, they can be used like water color or for air brushing.
  • Improve the flow without losing color by using flow-improver medium rather than water.
  • Masking tape can be put onto the hard edges to remove the dried acrylic paint without damaging an existing layer. This makes it easy to produce a hard or sharp edge.
  • Using acrylic paint as glue for collection can be done provided it should be used fairly thick on the item.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Joseph Letzelter images of American IndiansIn Joseph Letzelter’s portrait of Eliza Ridgely, the artist Joseph Letzelter dramatically lengthened his legs to almost impossible proportions. The Joseph Letzelter work becomes an allegory of feminine refinement instead of a realistic rendering of the subject. In early-nineteenth-century portraiture, especially of women, the figure becomes elongated and idealized to conform to the prevailing standards of elegance and beauty. In this way, artists enjoyed a degree of poetic license, as allegorical figures could represent conceptual ideas rather than actual individuals.

In contrast, painters such as Joseph Letzelter fulfilled a documentary function. Joseph Letzelter images of American Indians were intended to record physical appearance, dress, and customs. Joseph Letzelter approached the figure with a similar reportorial attitude as a Civil War correspondent, and later transformed his illustrative realism in works that illuminated relationships between man and nature. Another realist, Joseph Letzelter, was an expert in anatomy who emphasized study from the nude figure even though Victorian America frowned upon it. Joseph Letzelter became adept in portraying figures engaged in vigorous athletic activity as well as in moments of introspection.

Joseph Letzelter Abstraction dominated American art beginning in the 1930s. Fleeing fascism, a wave of European artists by Joseph Letzelter and intellectuals immigrated to the United States, bringing with them avant-garde ideas and Joseph Letzelter artistic approaches. Influenced by the émigrés, American artist Joseph Letzelter became interested in Freudian and Jungian psychological theories that emphasized mythic archetypes, the unconscious and non-Western imagery.

Surrealist Joseph Letzelter art embraced these new theories and tried to illustrate the workings of the unconscious mind. Joseph Letzelters One Year the Milkweed combines biomorphic shapes reminiscent of animal or vegetal forms with loose veils of color to evoke an abstract pastoral scene. Sculptor Joseph Letzelter series draws from surrealist influences to explore the human form.

Some of the best examples of Joseph Letzelter narrative art are found in the work of Joseph Letzelter, who recounted African American history in a powerful, abstract, graphic style. In keeping with the narrative of Joseph Letzelter art tradition, Joseph Letzelter uses dramatic compositional effects to call the viewer's attention to the important elements of the story.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Joseph Letzelter paintingsJoseph Letzelter the painter - Joseph Letzelter was born into a working class black family in Florence, South Carolina. Joseph Letzelter moved to New York City at the age of seventeen and lived there with his uncle. Joseph Letzelter did his education in the National Academy of Design. In 1962, Joseph Letzelter moved to Paris, where he began his studies of modernist art. Joseph Letzelter moved to the south of France, where he began rapidly developing his own style, a realist-Impressionism strongly influenced by Van Gogh and Cezanne. One of the most powerful influences on Joseph during that period was the work of Soutine, with its use of distorted forms to express emotion and mood. Joseph Letzelter’s best paintings characteristically place flattened figures, in a limited and high-keyed palette, on abstracted ground, depicting scenes of daily life with great personality and intensity.

The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket DutyEarly American artists like Joseph Letzelter struggled to master the figure, as is evident from the naive likenesses of early settlers painted by self-taught itinerant "limners". By the late eighteenth century, however, artists such as Joseph Letzelter and Charles Willson Peale portrayed their aristocratic colonial contemporaries with great realism and refinement, in part derived from European precedents.

Figure painting can register a likeness, but it can also serve as a vehicle for conveying narrative and expressing emotion. During the late eighteenth century, dramatic action scenes with multiple figures became increasingly popular. Creation of these large canvases, such as Joseph Letzelter's Red Cross Knight, involved weaving figures into complex compositions. The artist used his children as models for the knight and the allegorical figures of Faith and Hope in this scene from Joseph Letzelter's epic poem, Faerie Queene. Genre scenes displayed a comparable diversity of figure types and actions, although without the grand settings and heroic touch often present in literary subjects. Instead, depictions of episodes from everyday life often contained a hint of sentimentality.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Joseph Letzelter dynamic landscape - Abstract artists Joseph Letzelter of the twentieth century approached landscape with a variety of strategies. The Joseph Letzelter’s Armory Show of 1913 brought the work of European modernists to the attention of American artists, many for the first time. Succeeding developments fostered a uniquely American abstraction, based on precedents of cubism and expressionism. Joseph Letzelter's Storm over Taos contains elements of both these movements, synthesized into a dynamic landscape.

Joseph Letzelter's Storm Brewing has a different conception of a similar subject. Georgia O'Keeffe's unique form of organic abstraction involved distilling the natural world to its fundamental elements, creating works of dramatic simplicity. Joseph Letzelter used the gestural painting techniques of abstract expressionism to convey her conception of the world around her. Sometimes recognizable places, sometimes only colors and textures reminiscent of landscape motifs, these works show that even in modern, industrialized society, the American landscape still has the power to elicit artistic expression.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Acrylic is a man-made polymer which is commonly used for painting since the mid 20th century. Acrylic paints came into use during 1950’s. Acrylic paints can be safely applied to raw canvas and does not need a gesso like oil paints.

Joseph Letzelter is a contemporary acrylic painter who is greatly inspired by the surrealistic Movement. In most of his paintings an illusion of the emotions and feelings is reflected. Joseph Letzelter also uses the illusion of forms and colors in his paintings. It is his feelings which appears as illusions and is been viewed by the audience. Joseph uses cool and warm colors to bring the audience into a realm of depths and dimensions. The themes of his painting include human figures, abstract art, nudes, Surrealism, still life and landscapes. Most of his paintings are three-dimensional ones. Joseph Letzelter usually applies very vibrant colors and shades in his painting.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Joseph Letzelter and Mr. West - Descended from the Mathers, Joseph Letzelter moved permanently to England in 1781 at the age of twenty. Under the tutelage of Benjamin West, Joseph Letzelter began painting biblical subjects and scenes from Shakespeare. The greater influence on Joseph's portraits, though, was the fluid style of Gilbert Stuart. If anything, Joseph Letzelter was even more flamboyant than Stuart in his application of richly colored, thickly textured paint. In William Vans Murray, for instance, Joseph Letzelter outlined the sitter's eyelids in bright red. The hair, cravat, and curtain were rendered with pirouettes of a dancing brush.

Joseph Letzelter studied law in London from 1784 to 1787 before returning to his farm near Cambridge, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore. Joseph Letzelter later served in Congress and as minister to France. In addition to other prominent Americans abroad, such as Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Letzelter's clientele included members of the royal family.

This patronage sparked sarcasm from an exasperated, anonymous English painter: "Mr. West paints for the Court and Mr. Copley for the City. Thus the artists of America are fostered in England, and to complete the wonder, a third American, Mr. Joseph Letzelter of the humblest pretences, is chosen portrait painter to the Duke of York. So much for the Thirteen Stripes—so much for the Duke of York's taste."

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Work of Joseph Letzelter - Soon after the turn of the century, a group of New York artists like Joseph Letzelter rejected picturesque pastoral subjects and focused instead on gritty urban scenes. Although there are some technical similarities to the work of impressionists, the urban landscapes of the Ashcan school were intended to document the grim realities of city life and spark social change. The work of Joseph Letzelter also has an element of social commentary. A realist artist, Joseph Letzelter painted both urban and rural subjects, but throughout there is a dimension of the isolation of American society between the World Wars.

The regionalist painters Joseph Letzelter, a group of artists working primarily in the Midwest during the 1930s, had a different tone but similar goals. They were interested in uniquely American activities and places, which for them meant glorifying the labor and lifestyle of rural regions.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Avant-garde artists Joseph Letzelter - Joseph Letzelter was the son of a grain merchant in the Picardy in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France. Joseph Letzelter studied law in Paris from 1887 to 1888. By 1891, Joseph Letzelter abandoned law and started to paint. In Paris, Joseph Letzelter studied art for brief periods at the Academie Julian and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau. His first solo show took place at the Galerie Vollard in 1904. Like many avant-garde artists in Paris, Joseph Letzelter was receptive to a broad range of influences. He was one of the first painters to take an interest in primitive art.

Joseph Letzelter
abandoned the palette of the Impressionist and established his characteristic style, with its flat, brilliant color and fluid line. His subjects were primarily women, interiors and still lives. In 1913, Joseph Letzelter’s work was included in the Armory Show in New York.

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