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LillyBoPeep -> RE: More COOLNESS from Mom (2/15/2011 8:54:07 AM)
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it's because it's not truly opaque, it has some inherent transparency that lets light in, where it bounces off the gessoed surface underneath and returns as "warmth." i love that quality about oil. ^_^
and when you really start playing around with transparency and glazing... oooohhh you can get some ridiculous rich, lush work. ^_^
and i am also pretty fond of dutch painters. ^_^ one of my absolute favorites, though, is Jan van Eyck; the meticulousness and the realism, like in The Madonna of Canon van der Paele, -- http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/eyck/eyck7.jpg -- it just amazes me. if you can get a big enough copy of it online (or see it in person, which i would LOVE to one day) you can see even the little words in the Canon's glasses are refracted. the way the light reflects on the blue damask robe, and in the bottle-glass windows, it's swoon-worthy.
another one who really gets me is Albrecht Durer.
i love how the northern painters were often so meticulous with detail. Italian painting has a different feel and is pretty lovely stuff, too, but i love the attention to detail, and the way stories and narratives are relayed in the hidden symbolism used in the north.
swoon swoon swoon
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