Learn then Paint

In Reply to: Alla prima vs. more polished underpainting/glazing technique posted by J. on 06/19/00 at 6:46 PM:

: Which technique do you favor ?
: Why?
: Is there some advantage to having visible
: brushstrokes/blotchy color/ heavy paint application?
: What ?
: I always hear of something being described positively
: as 'painterly' meaning heavy brushstrokes.
: I hear of the 'artist's hand' being visible.
: Isn't it visible in layered technique with a
: smooth finish?

"Our obsession with the idea of genius has led us into another fallacy: that the style is the man. But just as in physics we begin to realize the extent of our knowledge - what we can know and what we can never know - so in art we have reached the extremes in techniques. We have used words in all the extreme ways, sounds in all the extreme ways, shapes and colours in all the extreme ways; all that remains is to use them within the bounds of the extreme ways already developed. We have reached the end of our field. Now we must come back, and discover other occupations than reaching the end of fields." --- John Fowles, Aristos
: Is it that smooth is too close looking to modern
: techniques of photography? Illustration?
: Thanks for your opinions.
: Arthur

 
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