Why I love fine art

Art has always been a part of my life. From the moment I was old enough to hold a pencil I began writing. I had my first art kit when i was five and i illustrated my first art book in first grade. Art has always been an escape where life and academics demanded my attention. I love fine arts because it has always been with me, it relaxes me, and it makes me happy.

When my parents divorced, i turned to the fine arts to express myself. My aunt gave me my first easle with oil paints when i was a preteen and i filled canvases with portraits that expressed my angst. I used vibrant unnatural colors to call attention and distorted proportions to illustrate my feelings. 

As i moved into high school, i took art class for all four years. I recall art projects where we made funky self portraits, paper mâché masks, comic strips and photoshop animations. I have all those projects tucked away somewhere, to show you. Here are some images of some of my works in highschool. Art class was so much fun.

In college, I realized my love for writing but so many other problems in life whipping at my mind refused to let me concentrate on text for too long. I find it really hard to read amd concentrate because of my PTSD, so at the commencement of the pandemic 2020 i painted some canvases with landscapes of places i liked the most. This helped to relax me as I got through the rest of college as i finished all of my writing assignments. You can see some of my paintings here. 

Not only does art relax my mind, but it makes me happy. When I create, I feel like a better person for contributing something of my own into the world. I put my all into my art because I want it to be special, meaningful and authentic.

Some of my favorite art eras are the impressionist movement, art deco and neoclassical. I prefer the latter more so just for admiring it. The former two are realistic emotions i can capture and make my own on a canvas, haha.

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Who would I interview dead or alive?

After long thought, i considered a few people that I would interview dead or alive. Some including famous people like Victor Hugo, Claude Monet or my mother. All of these people have their personal stories that the world would be willing to hear about but i would really like to sit down with one or some of them for a cup of coffee and and ask them questions about their self.

In the end, I would interview Claude Monet, my favorite impressionist painter, father of impressionism, and pioneer of plein air art.

So here is how the interview would go in my head:

We'd sit in a café in France, order some baguettes and some coffee, take out a couple of sketch pads, oil pastels, a tape recorder and a poloroid camera to document the moment. 

Here are my questions:

1. What got you thinking about plein air?

2.How did plein air painting affect your painting in comparison to studio art?

3. What were your favorite paints?

4. Of all of your landscapes, which was your favorite?

5. What painting would you ever paint over again? 

6. Who was your art inspiration? Why

7. If you were alive today, what playlist would you paint to?

8. How do you feel about being called the father of impressionism? What tips would you give to impressionist lovers now?

9. Which was your favorite landscape to paint, Paris, London or Netherlands?

10. What techniques would you use to mentally prepare yourself before painting a landscape? 

If anyone finds these questions interesting and wants to pretend to be Monet and answer these questions, i would be very amused and publish them in another blog post. 

P.s. the photos I used are not my own. They come from google images as I googled "Claude Monet".