Finally I can post my paintings here.

Hooray! finally I can post my paintings now. My darling (hehe that's my daughter n not my hubby) just bought me a new digital camera. It set her back by S$399.00. She's going to help me upload the picture later, during her lunchtime.

Anyway, this is a painting I did last year (sometime, in January) when I just started experimenting with oil. It depicts the "Paradise Meadow" near Mount Rainier in America. Standing at 14,411ft Rainier is the tallest volcano in the Cascade Range which stretches from Mt. Garibaldi in Canada to Mt. Lassen in northern California.

As you can see the painting is done in the "realistic" style which my darling commended as 'overly' real. Hehe don't be too disappointed, soon I'll have something different to show you.

Edit: The photo's up!



Paradise Meadow

Lost! The memory card for my cam. :(

Wanted to post some pics of my paintings but found that I've misplaced my camera's memory card. Been reading up on Marc Franz (1880-1916) a German artist who pioneered the Expressionist movement in Munich with some other like-minded artists. The group was named the "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Horseman). I thought I couldn't show you his paintings without my camera but my daughter taught me how to find the paintings online and set-up a Flickr account to save my pics. She just called me a noob. o_O



Yellow Cow (1911), Marc Franz



The Tower of Blue Horses (1913), Marc Franz




Unlike what the man-on-the-street thinks, Expressionism isn't just confined to art - it's present in literature, drama, dance, film and architecture. Not that I know very much about Expressionism outside of art. Art is afterall my first and only love. Wikipedia defines expressionism as "the tendency of artists to distort reality for an emotional effect" but I think it's more than that. It was a process of self-discovery and emanicipation for the artists - they often depicted a utopia free from the alienating processes of industry. (The Industrial Revolution - according to Marx - alienates workers from life because it takes the joy out of the process of creating a product. A carpenter who took pride in his art was reduced to a single worker in an assembly line churning out run-of-the-mill tables). Gotta go now. Tell you more about Franz's Expressionist paintings next time. :)

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