Title: Pillar Fruit Basket
Size: 16 x 20 inches Medium: Painting Completion: August 2021 Exhibition Text For my first project, I chose to paint a canvas showing a Basket with different types of fruit in a basket on top of pillars which was inspired by a still life painting and a Baroque painting of a fruit by Caravaggio. The purpose of this piece is that I wanted my piece to represent life and nature in a unique and colorful way. |
Inspiration
The artist inspiration for my piece is named Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, a is a famous Italian artist who was born in Milan, Italy on September 1571. He is best known for his Baroque and Renaissance paintings and his technique dramatic use of light and shadow known as tenebrism. I chose this for my piece because I was inspired by his painting "The Boy With the Basket of Fruit." The boy with the basket of druit What is so inspirational about it is that you can see the amount of details he put in everything. With the boy with can see the shadow around his neck and shoulder, the robe is a nice mix of light and shadow blue all around the robe and for the basket, you can realistic shape and colors in the fruit basket. Another work of Caravaggio's, a still life called, "Basket of fruit," is another work of his I was inspired by for the same reasons. I love Caravaggio's work because of realism in his paintings and drawings he has done. |
The Process
Before I begin painting, the first thing I did was draw the basket then with a mix of brown and a small amount of white to make it lighter, I painted the places where I wanted it to be brown. Then after letting it dry for a while, I drew some grapes hanging out of the basket then painted the grapes light green with a mix of green and a yellow. After that, I drew the rest of the inside with different types of fruit like bananas, pairs, apples, grapes, oranges, and a watermelon. For the bananas, I used only yellow, for the apples I just did red for the grapes I used purple for the pairs I used a mix of yellow and green and for the watermelon, I mix orange and red and white together to make a dark pink. After I finished painting the all the fruit, I then used black paint and went back to draw the lines around the grapes and apples, top of the bananas, and paint little lines on the watermelons to make it look like seeds. Next table I used a mix of black and white to make grey and for the background I used a mixed color of yellow ochre and dark cadmium yellow. Lastly, I finished it off with painting the rest of the basket. |
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Reflection
This project wasn't so challenging to do, there were a couple parts of doing that was difficult to do like painting the grapes carefully and painting the black lines around it but this project wasn't so bad. The best part about my piece is how colorful it is, I like the mix of colorful things together and my projects shows a example of it, what I also like about my piece is the background and how its a mix color of yellow and black, it looks very cool. What I don't like about the project is how the green grapes turned out because of the how the shapes of the green grapes didn't turn out as I wanted, I also didn't like how I made the apples too dark and on the edge of the basket, the apple looks more like a tomato then an apple, as for the pairs, I made the color a little too dark with the green, but when I was finished the painting seeing the different shapes on the fruit I've done and technique I used with this painting. I didn't learn anything new throughout this process but I am glad of how my piece turn out. |
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ACT Response
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause- effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork? I chose Caravaggio because of his realistic painting and still life fruit basket and I wanted to do a painting similar to that. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration? Caravaggio overall approach of his work is his show large scale of religion and capture it in his paintings. What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research? The central idea or theme of Caravaggio work is his to show his intense and unsettling realism painting. What kind of (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research? As I kept researching about Caravaggio, I learn more about not only just his painting but himself and why he became an artist in the first place which I enjoyed doing. |