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Painterly Excellence and Mishandling in Nicolai Fechin's Portraits | ๐ Masterclass
🕑 Added 2023-02-05 18:48:01 +0000 UTCJan-Ove Tuv gives his analysis of the portraits by Nicolai Fechin and compares them to works by the Russian-American's contemporaries and older colleagues.
In this video you will learn about:
- Reflecting the background in the main character
- Separating forms by temperature instead of value
- Keeping solidity in a roughly painted portrait
- Dividing a form into multi-shapes to achieve volume
- How to pull off thick in the shadows, thin in the lights
- Why Munch and Boznanska are superior to Fechin
- How too much structure of paint can defeat the form
- What Chardin and Fechin have in common
- Varying between loose and tight outlines
- Fechin's problemtatic handling of backgrounds
- Why Rembrandt takes the glory at the end of the day
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