Video · YouTube
Employing Symbols in Paintings - What to Do and Avoid to Make a Credible Story on the Canvas
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- 1 h 14 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
A long conversation between figurative painters on using symbols credibly in narrative painting: grounding symbolism in reality, psychological tension, archetypes and allegory.
Chapters
- 0:00Symbolism must be grounded in reality
- 3:03Can you paint dragons and angels?
- 10:58Psychological tension without obvious symbols
- 26:49Andrew Wyeth and the miracle of the everyday
- 34:18Archetypes and manipulating proportions
- 38:41Natural, not intellectual symbols
- 45:52Allegories
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