A2 Fine Art

For my Art 3 personal investigation I have considered to base my theme on landscape realism (preferably of my home country Lithuania, as it is more personal to me rather than doing ordinary landscapes in other places that have no meaning to me. By focusing on Landscapes particularly in my home country I could be able to express my work more as to what I feel about the place and atmosphere that I am painting or drawing. However I want to make my landscape realism quite edgy and expressive, to allow me to fully show my feelings about my work.This is why in particular I want to focus on three artist that do landscape paintings, however their paintings usually consist of bright colours, unclear shapes and distorted reality of some sort.The main artists that I am choosing to study and further analyse later on are; Vytautas Kasiulis who was a Lithuania artist who particularly liked to paint in a unique way using unusual choice of colours and shapes which he adapted in a certain way, he distorted ordinary reality with his own expression of feelings and imaginationMy second artist who I would like to study is a Scottish artist named Scott Naismith who also paints landscapes but has a very unique style of layering tones and colours to add depth to his work.The third artist is Joseph Mallord William Turner who was a British artist who painted various places and scenes in his own perspective, trying to highlight what the paintings atmosphere makes him feel rather than precise detail.I will be spending the summer in the city of Vilnius, which is in my home country Lithuania, so I will have an opportunity to take various photographs of landscapes, city and other surroundings which will help me to further develop my ideas. As Lithuania, has a lot of beautiful nature and even cities with old interesting churches,buildings etc. However I do not want to focus on the details of these, I am more determined of finding out ways and techniques on focusing my work on surroundings and atmosphere itself that the places I visit create, almost making something real unreal and misshapen, leaving all the details behind in the blurred background, yet still recognizable. The reason why I want to base my work on places in my country is because I spent a big majority of my life there, and to me it is a very big part of my life.Hopefully visiting galleries and doing artist research will push me towards forming a even clearer understanding of what my theme can develop into.