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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(1527=1593)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

 

Paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Air. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.
Air 		Fire. 1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Fire 		Earth. c.1570. Oil on wood. Private collection, Vienna, Austria.
Earth
Water. 1566. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Water
The Librarian. c.1566. Oil on canvas. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
The Librarian 		The Lawyer. 1566. Oil on canvas. Statens Konstsamlingar, Gripsholm Slott, Stokholm, Sweden
The Lawyer 		The Cook, a visual pun which can be turned upside down. c.1570. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Stokholm, Sweden.
The Cook 		Spring. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France
Spring
Summer. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France
Summer. 		Autumn. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France
Autumn 		Winter. 1573. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Winter. 		Self-Portrait. c.1575. Blue pen-and-wash drawing. Narodni Gallery, Prague, Chechia
Self-Portrait
Eve and the Apple, with Counterpart. 1578. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Basle, Switzerland.
Eve and the Apple 		Vertumnus. 1590-1591. Oil on wood. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
Vertumnus 		  Flora. c.1591. Oil on wood. Private collection, Paris, France
Flora
Oil Painting: An Intro for BeginnersPainting in oils - what you need to know about the paint. You can liken making paintings with oil paints as making mud pies with different color mud or plaster. Why?Oil paint usually has "thickness" so it can be shovelled, spread, pushed, trowelled, brushed and scraped - just like plaster or mud. It can be flattened or piled up and much more.It has all these qualities - if mixed right. It can be made to be spread as thin as gossamer or as thick as clay. All this depends on just two things: The thinness or thickness of the paint (its viscosity).The implement you decide to use to push it around (knife, brush, stick, trowel).So, what sort of mud or paint will we make, how dry, how runny?Oil paint is made up of three main elements.Pigment - a powder made from ground rock or earth or root anything dry that is intense in color. Oil (medium) A drier of some sort as oil sometimes takes too long (a thinner)You can try this:Go to the kitchen and get a little powdered saffron or powderOil Painting: An Intro for Beginners
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