Bethanne Kinsella Cople

Must Taste of Its Own Grapes by Bethanne Cople, Framed Landscape Oil Painting

2016

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

'Lemons and a Knife' is a small Impressionist oil on canvas still life painting created by American artist Laura L. Shubert in 2020. Featuring a palette made of beige, blue, black, yellow and orange and pink tones, the painting draws us in with its beautiful rendition of lemons in a blue and while bowl, sitting one a napkin with a silver knife near by...

Created a decade before Nepo's passing, is signed lower left. A fourth-generation French artist, Christian Nepo had art in his blood. His great grandfather was Ivan Chichkine, a no...

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...

Unframed Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Josep Marfa Guarro was a Catalan painter specialized in landscape painting. Among Josep Marfa Guarro's work are numerous watercolors and in...

David Shingler's (NC based) "Moab Plateaus" is an oil painting that depicts the vast desert dotted with grasses leading to the towering plateaus of Moab...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "There that yet may be" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape of a city's lights nestled in a canyon between mountains, with swirlin...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Where no one Hears" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape full of dense trees and foliage, with glittering sunlight peeking through...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Shores of Next Year" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape of vast plains with a small river winding into the distance and swirling...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Post Progress" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white vast landscape with telephone poles overrun with brush and dense foliage, and mountains in the distance Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who uses black and white paint to explore the perception of space and beauty. Carpenter's formal education is in science - he holds a MS in Neuroscience from UCSD and a BS in Psychobiology from UCLA - and he brings this background into service when making art. His paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and aesthetics, examining among other things how the depiction of light can impart realism and convey emotion. Like his paintings bridging art and science, Carpenter's career has similarly straddled the two fields, and he has taught subjects ranging from neuroscience and environmental science to photography and painting. Artist Statement As a painter, I am particularly interested in how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. Painting, as with any visual art, is obviously dependent on light. But painting can also have a more specific connection in that the accurate depiction of light is crucial for achieving realism. Realism in paintings largely arises from the portrayal of depth - perceiving a painting as being realistic is equivalent to seeing its subject as existing in more than just the two dimensions of the picture plane - and one of the mechanisms by which humans perceive depth is through lighting cues. Light creates features such as shading, shadow, and contrast that tell us about the three-dimensional arrangement of our surroundings, and artists often use these features to impart realism to paintings. Light also factors in to the emotional impact of paintings. The differential illumination of our surroundings can evoke different moods, as evidenced by the influence sunsets, candlelight, and darkness can have on us. Such effectssuggest that our perception of light could be tied to primitive instincts, with light signaling factors such as shelter, nightfall, and warmth, which were once crucial for survival. The depiction of light in...