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Bill also loved to include a little visual illusion in his sculptures. Construction with Suspended Cube (1936), for example, is a mobile sculpture that appears to be perfectly symmetrical from one angle, but as soon as the viewer moves around the sculpture, the symmetry begins to unravel. The best way to illustrate how drawing lines of action works is to use an example, in this case, a figure. When a person is in motion, the general direction of their body points typically in one way, and their limbs usually work in a coordinated fashion to help them complete whatever motion they are attempting. Famous Pointillism artists include Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Vincent van Gogh and Henri-Edmond Cross. Georges Seurat Georges Seurat: The Channel at Gravelines, in the Direction of the Sea When you look at a figure in motion, one line of action starts at the head and ends at the midsection. Other lines of action start at the should and end at hand, start at the hip, and end at the foot. Each of these lines of action indicates motion. As you can see, the person is riding a bike. Scale was created by the placement of the trees. The rider’s legs are compressed so we know the person isn’t standing or straddling the frame. One leg is up, the other one is down, indicating a pedalling motion. What we see in the painting is a solitary rider. What we don’t know, however, is if this is a person riding alone, or someone who is simply out ahead of a group of other riders. This is where the viewer gets to have fun with the story. Scale

The light will only stay a certain way for so long. You can only stay at that location for so long before you have to call it a day. There may be other obstacles, such as people, cars, the weather, and anything else that you can think of that could be a problem for you while you work. Riley started work on Kiss after her relationship with Maurice de Sausmarez ended. While with de Sausmarez, she enthusiastically studied Futurist art in Italy and painted the Italian countryside. She made careful studies of paintings by the Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat and the abstractionist Piet Mondrian. While working in this manner, Riley wanted to go further than these modern masters in investigating optical experience. In her words she wanted "to dismember, to dissect, the visual experience." With Kiss, Riley found her own forms to explore the vibrating and oscillating space she was so drawn to in these modern painters. Developing the confidence to work this way will take quite a bit more effort, but once you get there, your work will have more energy and life than you could have imagined.

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It’s de Kooning who’s often credited as the originator of Action Painting, and it’s the vigorous brushstrokes of his Woman series (started in the early 1950s) that would successfully evolve the emotive and expressive style.Like Kline, de Kooning often reworked his canvases, which produced a purposeful sense of dynamic incompletion. This meant that it seemed his forms were still in the process of moving and thus exemplified Rosenberg’sdefinition ofAction Paintingas an event, rather than a traditional finished artwork. Link copied to clipboard Channel the energy of a figure in motion using loose brushstrokes, says artist Marie Antoniou However, while other Impressionists were concentrating on the natural world, Paul Signac’s interests lay more in the realm of urban scenes and cityscapes. In his series of paintings titled “The Port of Saint-Tropez”, for example, we see a view of the French Riviera town that is composed entirely of thousands of tiny dots of colour. This artwork shows how you can first apply energised marks before introducing the main subject (the cyclist). When adding to the figure, be careful not to overwork it and lose the sense of movement already established by the initial dynamic strokes. Art materials

Berthe Morisot was described by the critic Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of the three great female painters of Impressionism, along with Marie Bracquemond and the American Cassatt. But Morisot was the only one of these three integrated into the group from the start, involved in the founding of the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs and the mounting of the first, critically eviscerated group exhibitions. As such, she can be considered one of the most important painters of the Impressionist circle and one of the most important and groundbreaking female modern artists of all time. In 1956, Riley saw an important exhibition of American Abstract Expressionist painters at London's Tate Gallery. She returned to painting seriously again, exploring the lessons of Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. The following year she was sufficiently recovered to take a job teaching art at a girls' school in Harrow, near London.Painting in a series, or making any kind of artwork with subtle changes from one piece to the next has been a staple of modern art for many artists, from Andy Warhol to the Minimalists, to Conceptual artists. Not only has it been a way for artists to explore subtle difference between subjects, but some artists reference Monet directly in their series works. Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon applies the techniques of his earlier plein-air landscapes to the modern city. The work uses broad strokes of paint, carefully applied to the canvas, to represent the fleeting nature of modern life, and the visual impression made by the metropolis. It is one of a series of paintings, painted in Pissarro's room at the Hotel de Russie overlooking the street, that depict the same scene during different points of the day and different seasons of the year. The series emphasizes the changing effects of natural light upon the urban setting, resulting in a reflection on the passage of time and the transformation of the city. He was particularly interested in the passage of time in his portrayal of light. His series of paintings capturing Rouen Cathedral at different times of the year and day offer clear examples of Monet’s ideas on how a subject can be transformed by properties around it. His most famous of this series is 1894’s Rouen Cathedral: The Facade at Sunset.

The Impressionists used looser brushwork and lighter colors than previous artists. They abandoned traditional three-dimensional perspective and rejected the clarity of form that had previously served to distinguish the more important elements of a picture from the lesser ones. For this reason, many critics faulted Impressionist paintings for their unfinished appearance and seemingly amateurish quality. What happens when you work in your studio? You have control over the setup of your subject. You can control the lighting. The property at Giverny was Monet's primary inspiration for the last three decades of his life. He created a Japanese garden for contemplation and relaxation, making a pond filled with water lilies with an arched bridge. He famously said: "My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers. Always. My heart is forever in Giverny, perhaps I owe it to the flowers that I became a painter." Impressionism was developed by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists from the early 1860s. (Though the process of painting on the spot can be said to have been pioneered in Britain by John Constable in around 1813–17 through his desire to paint nature in a realistic way). Surrealism saw artists exploring subjects and techniques that would have previously been socially unacceptable.This dour scene, depicting two unfortunate individuals slumped on a bench outside a Parisian café, conveys a deep sense of isolation and degradation, revealing another side to the Impressionists' emphasis on truth to life. Degas's heavily-handled paint communicates the quality of emotional burden which his subjects convey, which in turn seems to stand for the whole oppressive atmosphere of Paris's demi-monde. The work was scandalous, like so many other Impressionist paintings, when it was first exhibited, at the second Impressionist exhibition of 1876. The Irish writer George Moore remarked of its female subject: "a life of idleness and low vice is upon her face, we read there her whole life."

Born in 1834, Degas was slightly older than the majority of the Impressionist circle, and his style continued to show clear points of divergence from the group's approach throughout his career (indeed, Degas rejected the Impressionist label throughout his life). Whereas Impressionists such as Monet and Sisley turned away, to varying degrees, from depicting the physiognomy and detail of the human body, Degas remained deeply preoccupied with the human form, particularly capturing it in motion. His paintings often depict groups of bodies, either static (as above), or in motion (as in his famous paintings of ballet dancers at rehearsal), with brilliant naturalism. Degas's works also suggest an attention to detail at odds with the spontaneous style of Impressionism. Indeed, Degas was famous for his rigorous and methodical approach. He banned all visitors from his studio, working laboriously on canvases all day. "I assure you", he once said, "no art is less spontaneous than mine." Monet's extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement as evidenced by its massive popular consumption in the form of calendars, postcards, and posters. Of course, Monet's paintings command top prices at auctions and some are considered priceless, in fact, Monet's work is in every major museum worldwide. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings. The majority of the most popular artworks were made in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork. His art spanned several styles, including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Pointillism. Henri-Edmond Cross Henri-Edmond Cross: The Iles d’Or (The Iles d’Hyeres, Var)

Channel the energy of a figure in motion using loose brushstrokes, says artist Marie Antoniou

Riley's formal compositions invoke feelings of tension and repose, symmetry and asymmetry, dynamism and stasis and other psychic states, making her paintings less about optical illusions and more about stimulating the viewer's imagination.

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