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Artist Charles Oliver Galleries of Traditional & Contemporary Fine
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This site contains original art by American
artist Charles Oliver. The exhibit contains art works produced
over the last 30 years. The art work is split into nine galleries, each
containing
a particular style, school, genre of art or theme. They are:
Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction, Structures, Portraiture,
Commercial (graphics, commercial & advertising art),
Shenandoah Serenade, Old Town Reflections and
Recent Works. Navigation
to these galleries can be accessed from the panel above, page bottom
and panel to the left. Below
are explanations of
the styles that make up each gallery. Because
art categories are highly subjective some works may fit in other
style categories besides the ones they have been placed in. A
surreal scene
may be done in an impressionist style or vice versa.
Actually the placement of fine art in a particular category is a
very unfine science. For your viewing convenience each gallery is
presented in a slideshow format. |
Impressionism
Often Impressionism a theory or style of painting
originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized
by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a
scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to
simulate actual reflected light.
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose
association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art
publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the
title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the
term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible
brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing
qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time),
ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.
The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed
by analogous movements in other media which became known as
Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside
of the late 19th century time period.
Painters known as Impressionists: Frédéric Bazille,
Paul Cézanne
(although he later broke away from the Impressionists), Edgar Degas
(a realist who despised the term Impressionist, but is considered
one, due to his loyalty to the group), Armand Guillaumin, Édouard
Manet (who did not regard himself as an Impressionist, but is
generally considered one), Claude Monet (the most prolific of the
Impressionists), Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Alfred Sisley
Surrealism
Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose
psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal
significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond
ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the
viewer.
1931 marked a year when several Surrealist painters produced works
which marked turning points in their stylistic evolution:
Magritte's
Voice of Space (La Voix des airs)[4] is an example of this process,
where three large spheres representing bells hang above a landscape.
Another Surrealist landscape from this same year is
Yves Tanguy's
Promontory Palace (Palais promontoire), with its molten forms and
liquid shapes. Liquid shapes became the trademark of
Dalí,
particularly in his The Persistence of Memory, which features the
image of watches that sag as if they are melting.
The characteristics of this style - a combination of the depictive,
the abstract, and the psychological - came to stand for the
alienation which many people felt in the modern period, combined
with the sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be "made
whole with one's individuality".
Long after personal, political and professional tensions fragmented
the Surrealist group, Magritte and
Dalí continued to define a visual
program in the arts. This program reached beyond painting, to
encompass photography as well, as can be seen from a
Man Ray self
portrait, whose use of assemblage influenced Robert Rauschenberg's
collage boxes.
Abstraction
Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art
that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses
color and form in a non-representational way.[1] In the very early
20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such as
Cubist and Futurist art, that depicts real forms in a simplified or
rather reduced way—keeping only an allusion of the original natural
subject. Such paintings were often claimed to capture something of
the depicted objects' immutable intrinsic qualities rather than its
external appearance. (See abstraction.) The more precise terms,
"non-figurative art," "non-objective art," and "non-representational
art" avoid any possible ambiguity.
Some of the American Abstract expressionists are purely abstract and
include: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson
Pollock, Franz Kline, and Hans Hofmann although they were at times
inspired by myth, figuration, architecture, and nature. Op Art
(1962) and Minimalism (1965)[citation needed] were two recent
idioms. It is, at present possible that an artist's work is seen as
an individual entity rather than part of a movement. The late
Yves
Klein and the late John McLaughlin, and the more current
Callum
Innes, Sean Scully, and Yuko Shiraishi are but a few of the many
abstract painters whose works can be seen today.
Structures- (geometrics, fractals, designs, mantras, etc.)
Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects
and representing the calculation results as still images,
animations, music, or other media. Fractal art is usually created
indirectly with the assistance of a computer, iterating through
three phases: setting parameters of appropriate fractal software,
executing the possibly lengthy calculation and evaluating the
product.
The Geometric Style is a style of Greek art preserved largely in the
form of vase painting that flourished towards the end of the Greek
Dark AgesVases in the Geometric style are characterized by many
horizontal bands about the circumference covering the entire vase,
between these lines the geometric artist used a number of other
decorative motifs such as the zigzag, the triangle and the meander.
Besides abstract elements painters of this era introduced stylized
depictions of humans and animals. Linear designs were the principal
motif used in this period. The meander pattern was often placed in
bands and used to frame the now larger panels of decoration.
Mantras originated in the Vedic religion of India, later becoming an
essential part of the Hindu tradition and a customary practice
within Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. The use of mantras is now
widespread throughout various spiritual movements which are based
on, or off-shoots of, the practices in the earlier Eastern
religions.
Portraiture
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the
intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject, mostly a
person, whereas the portrait is expected to show the essence of the
subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe a painted
portrait. Portrait painting has a long history as an artform.
One of best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's
painting titled Mona Lisa, which is a painting of an unidentified woman.
The worlds oldest known portrait was found in 2006 by a local pensioner, Gérard Jourdy, in the Vilhonneur grotto near Angoulême and is thought to
be 27,000 years old.
When the artist creates a portrait of him- or herself, it is called a
self-portrait. The first known in paint was by the French artist
Jean
Fouquet in c. 1450,[2] but if the definition is extended the first was
by the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who carved a
representation of himself and his wife Taheri c. 1365 BC. However, it
seems likely that self-portraits go back to the earliest
representational art.
Commercial- Madison Avenue
The term "Madison Avenue" is often used metonymously for
advertising, and Madison Avenue became identified with the
advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the
1920s.
Graphic design is the process of communicating visually using text
and/or images to present information, or promote a message. Graphic
design practice embraces a range of cognitive and aesthetic skills
and crafts, including typography, image development and page layout.
Graphic design is applied in communication design and fine art. Like
other forms of communication, graphic design often refers to both
the process (designing) by which the communication is created, and
the products (designs) such as creative solutions, imagery and
multimedia compositions. Graphic design was traditionally applied to
static printed media, such as books, magazines and brochures. Since
the advent of personal computers – and in particular WYSIWYG user
interfaces – graphic design has been utilized in electronic media -
often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia
design.Graphic design is the process of communicating visually using
text and/or images to present information, or promote a message.
Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive and aesthetic
skills and crafts, including typography, image development and page
layout. Graphic design is applied in communication design and fine
art. Like other forms of communication, graphic design often refers
to both the process (designing) by which the communication is
created, and the products (designs) such as creative solutions,
imagery and multimedia compositions. Graphic design was
traditionally applied to static printed media, such as books,
magazines and brochures. Since the advent of personal computers –
and in particular WYSIWYG user interfaces – graphic design has been
utilized in electronic media - often referred to as interactive
design, or multimedia design. (Above references from Wikipedia.com)
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