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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lloyd249, post: 925308, member: 1211&quot;][ATTACH=full]202085[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202086[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/category/general-posts/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/category/general-posts/" rel="nofollow">GENERAL POSTS</a></p><p><font size="6"><b>BRUSHSTROKES ARE THE PAINTER’S FINGERPRINTS</b></font></p><p><a href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/2014/05/23/brushstrokes-are-the-painters-fingerprints/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/2014/05/23/brushstrokes-are-the-painters-fingerprints/" rel="nofollow">MAY 23, 2014</a> <a href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/author/admin/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/author/admin/" rel="nofollow">RYAN WILLIAMS</a> <a href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/2014/05/23/brushstrokes-are-the-painters-fingerprints/#respond" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ryanwilliamsart.com/artblog/2014/05/23/brushstrokes-are-the-painters-fingerprints/#respond" rel="nofollow">LEAVE A COMMENT</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have you seen the Google Art Project? Wow. That is something I could truly get lost in for a couple of hours at a time. The project provides the opportunity to not just look at the most famous works of art, but examine them in a manner of closeness that’s unavailable when standing in front of them in a museum – well without being grabbed by security at least. When you look at a painting you are learning about the subject of the painting and the intent of the artist. When you look closer, down to the texture of the canvas, you learn about the artist himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vincent Van Gogh – &quot;Self Portrait&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just as every human has a unique fingerprint, artists have a unique brush style. The brush strokes tell a story much like a words in a book. Each stroke is a sentence. The strokes are weaved together in a section to form a paragraph. The sections form the entire painting or plot of the story. Each stroke must coordinate with the next one in order to create that visual harmony that so many of the world’s most famous paintings possess. What do these strokes tell us about these artists?</p><p><br /></p><p>Van Gogh had short and heavy strokes. The marks are laid in with a hurried yet confident approach. There is also a frantic feeling and slightly obsessive approach as the colors ever so slowly change across a plain versus a more standard and sharper delineation to light and shadow. We know that Van Gogh battled with mental problems; we know he bordered on obsessive behavior. Perhaps these brush strokes are not just telling a story of the subject, but are providing a clinical diagnosis to the mental state of the man himself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In a quite different example, John Singer Sargent features long flowing brush strokes. The marks appear to be more blended and feature sharper hue variance. Sargent was very comfortable with the dramatic light approach without going the full Rembrandt tilt. His lights are soft and his shadows are deep, but there is always a strong harmony through the painting. In many of his works his brush strokes are almost hidden as he seems to blend away the laborious work he poured into a his painting.We asked Gersh to walk us through how she verifies one of the world’s most high-profile artists, <a href="https://www.therealreal.com/shop/art?artists%5B%5D=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.therealreal.com/shop/art?artists%5B%5D=1" rel="nofollow">Pablo Picasso</a>, using his piece <i>‘<a href="https://www.therealreal.com/products/art/works-on-paper/figurative/jeune-femme-et-mousquetaire-from-series-347" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.therealreal.com/products/art/works-on-paper/figurative/jeune-femme-et-mousquetaire-from-series-347" rel="nofollow">Jeune Femme et ‘Mousquetaire</a>.’ </i>“This is from Series 347 — one of the largest series that Picasso ever completed, and one of the last before he died,” she says. “In many ways, the series encompassed his ‘greatest hits’ — themes like circuses, bullfights and courtesans. Bawdy and prolific, it’s a very important one in his career.”</p><p><br /></p><p>“This is the first thing to look for,” says Gersh. “You can tell pretty quickly if it’s incorrect.” While some artists sign in pen, Gersh says pencil is important because it’s more difficult to transfer. Also, look for consistency — compare the signature with other works by the artist. “Picasso’s name is usually underlined, and his signature is at a slight angle. Note the spacing of the letters as well; they’re consistently the same proportion apart, even in his more scripted signatures.”[ATTACH=full]202087[/ATTACH]the O is always slightly over[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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