The three stages of classical art: there more than just lines on a page. In today's world, anyone can pick up a crayon and call themselves an artist. But true artistic mastery goes beyond simple scribbling.
There are three stages to mastering the visual language of classical art – stages that reveal not just technical skill but also profound emotional depth.
1 | Grammar Stage
This is where the foundational building blocks of art are laid. It's about understanding how value, temperature, contrast, and texture all work together to create a believable illusion of depth and form.
If you have a candle in a dark room as everything moves farther away from the candle, it gets darker, each highlight gets darker farther away. For this stage, think of it like learning the alphabet before you can write a novel. It's essential but often overlooked by artists who rush straight into "creating."
Giotto's introduction in the 13th century is that as something moves away from you, it gradually gets darker and changes value. Now there are two concepts you must consider: following the light source and moving away from your eye.
Monet introduces to the art world that color changes temperature; as it changes temperature is also getting darker changing value. Therefore, it also follows the value scale, and as it moves farther from your eye, it should also change temperature. And new art definitions emerge with value being now "temperature".
2 | Logic Stage
The logic part of this is that as something changes value, it is also changing temperature, and therefore you are now saying logically – that’s something is happening.
The use of a value scale or not using a value scale is now coming into play, and so often artists do not realize or are unaware of minor art tools—which everyone has been introduced to a value scale and yet may not see the implications which will follow in the next stage called the rhetoric stage.
In this image above the light has broken through the trees in the early morning and - something has happened... the sun has come out, the beginning of a new day, maybe the change of psychological attitude, something with hope, action, excitement.
3 | Rhetoric Stage
Since changing value says something is happening, therefore, not changing value says nothing is changing, and nothing is happening.
The whole premise of this stage is that principles and concepts can be used in many variations of ways, and even ways that people have never thought of, but because we have the same grounding with the grammar and logic stage, it allows people to have arguments or conversations with completely opposite views and yet still understand what the other person or artist is saying in their painting.
Therefore, with that grounding, i.e., the grammar stage, i.e., the classical stage, there is a higher degree of conversation and communication in our.
In the above picture, thirty minutes before the sun comes out there is a calmness from the lack of changing value, the lack of changing temperature. Sure, there are other reasons, but you hopefully see the possibilities. There are no drawing and painting "rules". There are drawing and painting tools to help tell "your story", with "your voice", with and through "your art"!
Examples from the Video
Munch’s Scream where there is no change in value, there is no change in contrast, and all lines touch the edge of the page, which makes all marks come forward.
When Munch’s Scream has the contrast everywhere, then every line is in the same location in space. Therefore, there is no sequential order in the painting as well. Starting to give the feeling of no beginning or end, there no longer are sounds faintly disappearing into the background, or sounds which may have stared in the background but now are in "Our Lives" in the surface on the surface of the picture plane..
Another example in the video is Caravaggio's painting of Christ and Chiaroscuro, through the use of the dark shadow areas gradually changing value and disappearing into the shadows. Because of these changes – something is happening.
At the end of Caravaggio’s life, a group of artists take the change of value concept and make the values in the dark and make them the same value, using one value one black the resulting effect is—nothing- is changing, a stillness emerges, with the use of black a negative connotation emerges.
Art is about communicating your ideas as an artist to others to read. My wife thinks that Sargent still talks to us even though he’s been dead for 100 years; he does so through the way he handles and controls his use of the elements of art.
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