Art is always amazing because there are a lot of factors that go into making a piece of artwork. The main ones are picking one of many different types and styles of art and going from there. Then the artist must decide how much detail there should be and how real it should look, they usually want it to speak to the viewer on many levels, just like the way a well worded poem might. And they also have to spend a large amount of time and effort on just one piece.
There are many different types or art, and an uncountable amount of styles within every single type.
Sculptures are pretty extremely cool, because they can be made with any material imaginable. Clay, however, is the most common. Like with this cute little dragon:
( http://www.deviantart.com/art/dragon-sculpture-painted-348361432 )
Or this cuter, tinier, little hawk.
( http://www.deviantart.com/art/Red-tailed-hawk-sculpture-265091794 )
Even though clay models are adorable and awesome, sculptures made from other materials can be hella rad too. Like this metal lion:
( http://www.deviantart.com/art/METAL-LION-SCULPTURE-BY-SELCUK-YILMAZ-404758546 )
Another type of art are paintings. My personal favorites tend to be oil paintings like this one:
( http://www.deviantart.com/art/1054-portrait-oil-by-dry-brush-Adriana-Lima-295679365 )
Mainly because they can be super realistic and can express tons of different things. ( Most of the pictures I post as examples are mainly going to be oil paintings because I play favorites like that.)
Another style is sketching. You could use your pencil, or charcoal, or whatever. This picture was drawn in charcoal:
( http://jacqui-kate.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-Who-Tardis-in-charcoal-216255112 )
There's also a new way to make art and that is on thee computer. This is a super cool example of that:
( http://deepinthebastabyss.deviantart.com/art/Well-this-is-pure-shit-485458782 )
This picture is a good example of how real a drawing can look. The shading, wrinkles, unorganized hair, cheekbones, pores, and missing teeth, all add to it.
( http://www.deviantart.com/art/Old-man-of-the-mirror-344590978 )
Artists can put days and even months worth of time into just one piece of artwork.
Art can emotionally speak to you. With the right captain or description, an artworks' meaning can hit you really hard. Like this picture.
When you look at this picture try to really take it in before reading further.
Kind of extremely weird right?
The caption is "Whatever Turns You On". Now look at it again.
Is it even the same piece of artwork to you? It changed to me. Her nose is as small as it can be, which tends to be the wanted look. Her lips are huge, glossy and glittered. The way most people seem to find attractive. Her teeth are perfectly straight and white. Her eyes are large with an ample amount of makeup on them. Her eyes are a very pretty blue, green color. She has seductress, bouncy dark red hair. She has light blush spots on her cheekbones. Her fingernails are long and manicured, with a golden ring on her right hand wedding finger. She has a chain of pearls in her mouth, which apparently some men somehow find hot. Now look at the extremely obvious. Makeup covered tears streaming down her face. Now take another look closer. She has a small band aid at the top of her cheek. Not so subtly indicating some kind of physical abuse. Now look into her eyes. Can you see the man reflected in them? Can you imagine what is happening? It's not hard to piece together. Most of you will probably still think it's weird but I find that it has so much meaning packed into it, the 'weirdness' really isn't that weird.
It also takes artists an incredible amount of time to make their art. First they have to find all of the perfect material for the project they're working on, like the frame, the canvas or whatever they decide to put it on, the paint or charcoal or clay for actually making it and so on. That usually takes a while to find and so they have to put a lot of time in even before they start to make it.
PS- If you didn't notice I use many Deviantart for finding artwork. That's because it's a free site where people can buy and sell art and it's a really great site over all so check it out!
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Sources:
http://www.deviantart.com/?q=oil+painting
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Whatever-Turns-You-On-oil-painting-420157663
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Will-I-be-Forever-Alone-oil-painting-349124211
http://www.deviantart.com/art/dragon-sculpture-painted-348361432
http://jacqui-kate.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-Who-Tardis-in-charcoal-216255112
http://www.deviantart.com/art/SAD-160611708
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Light-356153150
http://deepinthebastabyss.deviantart.com/art/Well-this-is-pure-shit-485458782
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Liv-Tyler-18772302
