Editorial Archives - NK AjourNal https://www.nkajournal.org art blog Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:05:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 https://www.nkajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-text-32x32.png Editorial Archives - NK AjourNal https://www.nkajournal.org 32 32 Artistic wall painting in the interior https://www.nkajournal.org/artistic-wall-painting-in-the-interior/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:45:03 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/mate/?p=9 Artistic mural painting was most popular in the past centuries. With its help the walls of castles and palaces were decorated. Currently it is used less and less often.

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Artistic mural painting was most popular in the past centuries. With its help the walls of castles and palaces were decorated. Currently it is used less and less often. But thanks to modern techniques painting more harmoniously blends into the interior. What are the types of artistic wall paintings? With the help of what techniques is it done?

Features of artistic painting

An excellent option for finishing the room, with the help of which you can realize any fantasy, thereby show your creative taste and imagination. Another advantage of this type of art is the versatility of the decor. The image and color palette can be selected for any style of interior. The result will be a harmonious combination of color, design and general background of the room.

The wall, which will be painted in this way, will be the center of everyone’s attention. All the other details will complement it. The general interior should be less garish and bright, which will properly divide the space. Artistic painting performs not only a decorative function. With its help, you can visually increase or decrease the space, disguise wall defects, zone the room.

Acrylic painting

One of the most widespread modern techniques of painting, which uses acrylic paints. For acrylic painting, it is important to carefully prepare the wall. It must be flat, without defects. Paints are applied on a layer of plaster and acrylic primer for maximum adhesion to the surface.

Acrylic painting has many advantages. The paint dries fastest and has no specific odors. Such a technique can be used in rooms with high humidity. The wall after painting is not subject to dampness and is easily cleaned with a soapy solution. The advantages of acrylic painting should also include the safety and environmental friendliness of the material. Therefore, it is allowed to be used even in children’s rooms.

Aerography

This technique can also be used for painting walls in the room. Aerographic drawings are applied with the help of special equipment. In this case, the images are smooth and realistic. Due to the transparency of the layers, shades can be regulated. Home appliances are often also decorated with airbrush.

Invisible painting

One of the most original ways to decorate a room. Invisible fluorescent paints when you turn on ultraviolet light show up in the selected drawing. Sometimes they are applied to a finished acrylic image, thus giving it a fantastic and unconventional look. Especially interesting looks discreetly decorated wall, which transforms into an unusual figure in ultraviolet light.

Using luminous paints

Such a basis contains a phosphor, which is responsible for the bright light of the image. As a rule, painting with luminous paints is carried out over acrylic. The phosphor during the day accumulate light, and at nightfall give it away. Painting is especially appropriate for the premises of night bars, bowling alleys and other facilities. Still glowing drawings look beautiful when painting certain interior elements, such as vases or mirror frames.

Graffiti

Rarely is the interior supplemented by painting in the technique of graffiti. As a rule, it is chosen by creative people or people in a young age. For painting, spray paint in cans is used. The pluses of such include quick drying, application on any surface, inexpensive cost.

3D painting

The most modern technique of artistic painting. Nowadays, there are probably no people who have not heard of three-dimensional painting. Now there is also such an opportunity to decorate walls. 3D-paintings are made with acrylic paints. The main difference is the painting technique. Painting visually increases the room.

Visual effects

Artistic painting of walls has its own secrets, which give the image an extraordinary character. Consider the most commonly used visual effects:

  1. obfuscations – a great technique to break through the space, visually expand or increase the height. For example, a small living room can be enlarged with a picture of a porch overlooking a forest or a trick window and a different landscape.
  2. imitation – with painting, you can imitate different textures, stone, plaster, and wood. Professional execution of such painting will ensure realism and resemblance to the original.

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Types of visual art https://www.nkajournal.org/types-of-visual-art/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:20:47 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=177 Visual art reflects reality with the help of visual images, identifying the diversity and many facets of the world around us, the ideas and feelings of human beings.

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Visual art reflects reality with the help of visual images, identifying the diversity and many facets of the world around us, the ideas and feelings of human beings. Creativity is a direct way of knowing and manifesting oneself and the world around us. For example, the artist applies his own imagination to do so.

Types of visual art

  • Painting – the art of drawing with paints on a flat surface;
  • Graphics – work with lines and strokes without the use of paints;
  • Sculpture – artwork done by carving and sculpting;
  • Architecture – the process of constructing buildings and building complexes;
  • Decorative Art – creativity based on decorating something.

Painting as a type of fine art

Painting is one of the types of fine art. There are easel painting, decorative and monumental painting. The first subspecies is a creation using oil paints. The process takes place on wooden boards, cardboard and ogolite. Easel painting is the most mass-produced. The monumental sub-species is associated with painting on walls, which is used in the decoration of architectural structures. Such painting is especially popular in Europe. Particularly relevant is the fresco, which is the art of depicting on the raw plaster with special paints. This painting technique was used to decorate most religious buildings.

Decorative painting is the art of painting on interior objects, walls, furniture and so on. Each type of painting has its own nuances. This is primarily a technique of execution. Some works are difficult to separate from graphics, especially when done in watercolor or pastel.

There are such genres of painting:

  • Portrait – the most realistic painting of a person;
  • Landscape – the most popular genre of painting, in which the author depicts the nature;
  • Architectural painting – reminds something of a landscape, but differs by the presence of architectural structures in the picture;
  • Historical painting – in this genre depicts some historical event;
  • Battle genre – depicting military events;
  • Still Life – a picture of flowers, food, dishes and other objects at hand;
  • Marine – seascapes, seashores with a view of the sea;
  • Animalism – depiction of animals and birds, including mythical ones.

Architecture and its types

The name itself is translated from the ancient Greek as the senior builder. As a type of fine art, architecture is the artistic design of a variety of structures. It is based on three foundations: strength, usefulness, and beauty.

The main architectural fields are:

  • Volumetric design – any large-scale creation of buildings and structures;
  • Urban design – the construction and layout of urban buildings;
  • Green architecture – its main objective is to minimize the consumption of energy resources in the application of structures;
  • Landscape – design of gardens, parks and other plant environments;
  • Interior design – decoration of houses, apartments and pavilions from the inside.

Graphics

Another type of fine art, which consists in depicting reality, imagination and experiences of artists. A variety of techniques and materials are used to carry out graphics. Most often a paper sheet is used.

All types of graphics are classified into the following:

  • Monumental graphics – is a wall and printed graphics;
  • Easel painting – a drawing or print is made without referring to a particular style of interior, it all depends on the artistic sense;
  • Decorative – this section includes drawings from books, postcards and other graphic images.

Types of sculpture

Depending on the shape, purpose and material, sculpture can be round or relief. Round includes busts, statues and other variants that can be viewed from either side. Relief are convex or concave shapes on a flat background. There are three types of relief sculpture: bas-relief, high relief and counter-relief. The first type is the most widespread as a decorative decoration of architectural buildings since ancient times. The first sculptures of this type are known from the Paleolithic period. High relief is used to depict multi-figure scenes.

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Modern paintings for interior https://www.nkajournal.org/modern-paintings-for-interior/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:25:33 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=180 The interior of every apartment or house can be completed with a stylish modern painting. Regardless of your financial situation it will be easy to choose an accessory.

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The interior of every apartment or house can be completed with a stylish modern painting. Regardless of your financial situation it will be easy to choose an accessory. The picture complements the room and when properly chosen becomes the final element of the created image. So, for example, the work in bedding colors does not attract public attention, but it complements the interior. Bright and colorful accessories can completely transform a cold and unremarkable room.

The art of our time offers a lot of options for styles, accents and decorations of paintings. The choice among them is quite wide. Choose a suitable option for any room, from the hallway to the bedroom.

What to choose classic or creative works?

The choice between classic or extraordinary paintings depends on the interior design and the purpose of the room. Classic style remains in demand at any time and will fit well in the interior of a bedroom or kitchen. When the room has enough stylish and creative items, then the classics will be very appropriate here. Paintings in soft colors successfully decorate the bedroom.

Creative in paintings are usually represented by such stylistic directions: modern, abstractionism, high-tech and pop art. Such solutions are excellent for stylish rooms that are decorated in a similar direction. The main principle is the right combination of a picture with the background of the interior. The overall look will turn out more interesting and harmonious.

The room could also decorate the modern photo picture. Especially creative is the black and white photo, which will complement any room in the house. No less aesthetically pleasing looks in the office.

Modern picture for the bedroom

In this room, you should not choose works depicting storms or hurricanes, because it can disturb the peace. Also with caution choose bright colors in this room, as some of them are not soothing before sleep. Floral images and tranquil landscapes fit perfectly into the interior.

Accessories for the living room

In this room, the choice of images is much wider. Much depends on the style direction of the interior. For example, to the minimalist style will suit a black and white photo, framed in a metal frame. To the classics it is worth adding modernized works.

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Still Life for Beginners https://www.nkajournal.org/still-life-for-beginners/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 05:40:16 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=169 Still life is one of the most popular types of painting, it usually depicts a combination of man-made objects and fruits of nature.

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Still life is one of the most popular types of painting, it usually depicts a combination of man-made objects and fruits of nature. To create a still life it is not necessary to use oil paints (although this is a classic option) – these paintings are also created with watercolors, pastels, pencils and the like.

There are a number of rules for achieving harmony in the subject – not following them can lead to disappointment with the result. Before you start painting, it won’t hurt to learn about a few subtleties and learn how to apply them.
Important rules for creating a still life painting:

  1. Don’t arrange your objects in a boring manner-it doesn’t create any interest. Change the level of the objects and the distance between them, use overlap, change shapes.
  2. A lot of free space – it’s unattractive, you have to fill it with something. Even if you’re only going to have a single vase, use your imagination, including a dried twig and a piece of fabric. Such details would take all the attention away, but you would fill the void on the canvas and create depth in the composition.
  3. tones – you rarely see a wide range of colors in still life paintings, such paintings should radiate tranquility. Use only 2-3 colors as a basic, add their shades – you should get a richly bright, but not too prominent image. If you want to use more colors, don’t place them in equal quantities, but keep the main color in the picture, which will fill most of the space.
  4. In addition to the main color must be present the main subject, it will draw the attention of the viewer. Such an item is the center of the composition, the following parts of the still life will complement it in every way. For example: one tall and saturated bud in a bouquet of flowers and several slightly wilted small flowers.
  5. Move along the still life painting step by step, create the composition step by step.

Creating this type of painting is a more complicated task compared to painting single objects on canvas. In a still life drawing all the objects that are similar to each other with the same subject matter should be united. When arranging, you can add objects different in texture, height, ornamentation. Composition of wooden or clay vessels would be nice to complement the objects of glass with unusual shape, different berries.

A variety of fruits, from pears to oranges, and many vegetables, from cucumbers to cabbage, give the student enormous material for practice in drawing rounded shapes. Simple and complex compositions can be used as models. Sometimes one can decorate a bouquet with berries and different herbs. One can also create a still life from potted houseplants.

Through material objects can learn about a person’s character, to understand their emotions and preferences. Thanks to things you can find out a lot about their owner. Sometimes plaster objects can be added to a still life. Still lifes are very useful for educational purposes because they teach how to draw differently arranged geometric bodies.

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Painting or poster? https://www.nkajournal.org/painting-or-poster/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:44:24 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=184 Times are changing rapidly. Today there are already a lot of things that five years ago we didn't think about. Today we're going to talk about posters, prints on canvas.

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Times are changing rapidly. Today there are already a lot of things that five years ago we didn’t think about. Today we’re going to talk about posters, prints on canvas.

Opening the Internet in search of a painting, we increasingly come across the fact that we are offered a huge variety of paintings on any subject. You can even have an absolute copy of Van Gogh, Rembrandt or any other great painter of the past and present at your home. Today the progress of printing markedly stepped forward, offering printing on anything, including a canvas. And it is basically a great substitute for painting and pictures, if you want to buy paintings for the interior, and at the same time to do everything quickly and cheaply. For example, to decorate an office or a cafe, you choose the desired themes and subjects, and in a day or two everything is ready! Yes, and the price doesn’t depend on what is depicted there, but only the volume of materials used. In principle, not bad!

Such paintings-posters are usually printed on natural linen canvases by large format printer. Then to give a more natural effect, they are worked through with paints and covered with texture gel or varnish. The quality of printing is usually very high, which makes it possible to reproduce the entire palette of colors and shades indistinguishable from the original. In this case, the detail of the plot will be almost the same at all sizes. And the best thing about this pleasure is the low price, compared to a “live” picture.

But we want to tell you, friends, that as you know yourself, no fake or imitation of the original, not even a gram will not add value to the work that was invested in the idea and development of the original. It’s like swapping fresh flowers for plastic flowers. There is no artistic or aesthetic value in a poster, and you can never sell it in case you want to change your interior. It’s just not worth anything, because you can print the same one for the whole country!

When you go into someone’s house, visit a cafe or restaurant, stay in a hotel, go to the offices of companies and firms, you will always feel the difference if there are original beautiful things or cheap “plastic” analogues of them. This also applies to paintings and posters. Real paintings by artists are always a rich decoration of any interior, any room. Yes, they don’t cost as much as posters. But remember the times when there were no posters. And paintings were, and always will be an original, distinctive feature of your interior.

We are not urging you to give up posters, functionally they are needed as well. We call not to change real values for props, not to belittle work, creativity and individuality of those who create beautiful things, those whose talent is from God!

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Oil paintings on canvas https://www.nkajournal.org/oil-paintings-on-canvas/ Wed, 19 May 2021 03:16:37 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=68 Oil painting has always been distinguished by its depth and richness. Europe first began using oil paints to create paintings in the 15th century.

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Oil painting has always been distinguished by its depth and richness. Europe first began using oil paints to create paintings in the 15th century. The first masterpieces in this field were paintings by Giovanni Bellini and Jan Van Eyck. A little later this type of art became more and more popular.

With oil, artists were able to create a deeper and more varied paintings. It was possible to use many techniques. Oil painting was considered one of the freest and most individual painting techniques. In the process of painting the artist could choose his own pace and consistency of the colors.
Oil painting on canvas – a decoration for your home

Nowadays, apartments, country houses, offices and even restaurants are decorated with painting. With the help of artwork, you can add to the atmosphere in the room. Many of them have a special effect on people, soothing, calming, and vice versa cheering.

Objects of art contribute to zoning of space and combine perfectly with other decorative elements. Romantic paintings perfectly complement interiors in the classic style. Works in the style of abstractionism are considered more creative. Paintings made with oil paints will complement any interior style. Such accessories will be a win-win gift for every holiday. Among all the advantages is their durability, because oil paintings are resistant to almost all external factors.

Advantages of oil paintings

These pieces of painting will bring to the interior of the room a zest, uncommonness and luxury. With the help of it, you can demonstrate your own taste and equip your dwelling exquisitely. In each piece you can feel the mood and style of the artist. It is also worth noting such advantages of the variety of painting:

  • Longevity – most often it is oil paintings that are inherited, because they do not lose their original qualities;
  • Creating an exquisite environment – oil paintings surprise guests and delight the household;
  • Art value – the complexity of painting these decorative objects makes them more valuable;
  • Richness of colors – by using a real canvas you can create such a richness of colors.

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Directions in Painting https://www.nkajournal.org/directions-in-painting/ Fri, 14 May 2021 06:22:04 +0000 https://demo.themeinwp.com/blog-prime/?p=73 There are a large number of styles and trends in painting in the world. Basically they have no clear boundaries. Styles are intertwined with each other, touching and passing into each other.

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There are a large number of styles and trends in painting in the world. Basically they have no clear boundaries. Styles are intertwined with each other, touching and passing into each other. The most popular, the main styles of painting:

  1. impressionism (19th and 20th centuries in France). This style became so called because of the artist Claude Monet and his painting “Impression. Rising Sun” (Impression. Soleil Levant-fr.). The direction of the style is to work in the open space, transferring the master’s feelings about the light. Distinctive features: the barely visible, weightless, thin strokes. Obligatory presence of motion in the picture, spatiality, transfer of changing light, the image of the real world in motion.

Leading representatives: Edgar Degas, Van Gogh, Konstantin Korovin, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet.

2. Expressionism (beginning of the 20th century in Germany). Modern direction inherent in distortion of reality to evoke emotions in the viewer. Expresses and conveys emotions of the author. Depiction of anxiety, frustration and fear against the background of revolutions and the First World War. The paintings are dominated by motifs of pain and screaming (Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”). It is thought that the term was first used as a counterbalance to Impressionism.

Prominent representatives: Vincent van Gogh, James Ensor, Wassily Kandinsky.

  1. Cubism (20th century, France). Avant-garde movement. This style is inherent in depicting an object with broken lines, depicting an object from different sides simultaneously, while showing as many facets as possible. Images are deformed and devoid of logic.

Prominent representatives are Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Georges Bral, Fernand Leni.

  1. Modernism (19th-20th centuries) is a combination of different trends. In his works the author emphasizes the uniqueness of his vision using abstraction. The works convey the artist’s desire for freedom.

Prominent representatives: Ivan Bilibin, Michael Vrubel, Edward Munch, Alphonse Mucha.

  1. Neoclassicism (18th-19th centuries). Main features: emphasis on stable values. The style was greatly influenced by the Baroque and Rococo. Images are dynamic and based on ancient ideals. The paintings are dominated by: severity, simplicity, compliance with historical accuracy, great attention to detail, naturalness of colors.

Prominent representatives: P. Puvi de Chavannes, V. Serov, A. Yakovlev, M. Deni, K. Petrov-Vodkin, F. Hodler.

  1. Pop-art (1950 in England). The theme of the style is the image of ordinary, everyday objects and recognizable symbols from an ironic point of view, while changing the scale, size and material of the original image. Used in comics, commercials and other types of contemporary mass art.

Prominent representatives: R. Hamilton, Tom Wesselman, Andy Warhol.

  1. Romanticism (18th century). This style is characterized by strong emotions: fear, awe, awe. Eulogy of the sublime, interest in evil, quiet contemplation, comprehension, struggle against classical norms.

Prominent figures: Francis Goya, Isaac, Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Shishkin, William Turner, Isaac Levitan.

  1. Realism (1850 France). Objects are depicted through the prism of rules, the style is devoid of embellishment. Reality, accuracy and truth are shown. Describes the life, images are frank and naturalistic.

Prominent representatives: Ilya Repin, Honoré Daumier, François Millet.

  1. Surrealism (1920 in France). Depiction of separate subjects with the aim to create a strong image, to show the truth with their help, to provoke experience in the spectator. Images are inherent in the paradoxical combination of forms, interweaving of naturalness and fiction.

Prominent figures: Salvador Dali, René Magritte.

  1. Symbolism (end of the 19th century France). This style is characterized by striving for the new, in the images there is an understatement and mystery that is conveyed by depicting symbols. Transfer of an ideal image, objectivity.

Prominent representatives: Gustav Moreau, Hodler, Max Klinger, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Vrubel.

It is believed that pure styles do not exist. They all depend on one another, flowing from one another. Many styles emerged under the influence of other species. That’s why there are so many artists whose work is characterized by different styles.

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