Painting Technique of Velazquez

This source claims that great painters have outstanding techniques that greatly influence contemporary painting trends. When painting, one must have an idea that they want the audience to understand. According to Brown et al. (67), an artist is more likely to develop a style that other painters would use in their work when they portray their ideas in a unique way. Velazquez just like many other artists became prominent owing to his unique style of communicating ideas through his painting technique. In this credible source, Velazquez contribution to his style is well demarcated as an Art historian and as a conversation scientist. Through these two means, Velazquez’s identified his vision and pursued it. As such, this book illustrates more than two hundred painting how Velazquez realized his vision of man nature through allusive, economical manner of painting.

Brown, Jonathan, H. B. Bassegoda, and Diego Velazquez. Collected Writings on Velazquez. Madrid: CEEH, 2008. Print.

Based on this stimulation source, a leading authority of the Spanish masters Velazquez deliberates his enigmatic artistic experience and explores the mysteries presented by his works. According to the authors, the essays collected in this book were written primarily to distinguish Art from other careers. Despite the authors having completed some other books in a different field in a language like English, they posit that their experience and exposure for painting or rather Arts are unique and exciting. In this manner, they go ahead to illustrate the changing relating between their patrol Philip IV and Velazquez, which provides them with a better framework for interpreting painter’s career. The most important feature of the relationship was that of Las Meninas and Velazquez’s masterpiece. Conversely, they discuss attributions and the associated issues of Velazquez’s innovative strategies. Given that Velazquez was not a prolific painter, inquiries of authenticity became contentious. These authors consider the issue of authenticity in its broader dimension and participate in the discussion about personal attributions.

Gardner and Fred. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.

According to Gardner and Fred (51), Art has evolved over time and understanding some of the drifts that it has taken over the years provides a good background for upcoming painters. In this manner, these authors provide a consisted history of the world Art as a means to reveal how Art reflects and participates in the artist’s views of the world in with they live. Taking into account of the trends through the prehistoric world to the twentieth century, Gardner and Fred accounts for some of the credible styles including that of Velázquez’s. Just like other Art authors, Gardner and Fred stress that any piece of work usually has an idea which it communicates to the audience. The mode and the way the idea is represented in Art may matter depending on one’s technique that will make a given paint to gain fame. If many people are attracted with the strategy, it can be adopted as a method just like Velázquez’s.

Tiffany, Tanya. Diego Velazquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville. Penn State Univ. Press, 2012. Print.

In this book, Tiffany accounts for the formative years that Velazquez spent at the center of artistic life in seventeenth-century Seville, which he mentions being a gateway to the new world that was characterized by intellectual discussions, religious fervor, as well as mounting ethnic tensions. Even though there are critics, which have always divorced the subject matter and the painter’s new style from the city’s unique pictorial and cultural traditions. In Velazquez’s early paintings, and the culture of seventieth century Seville, the author illustrates that Velazquez’s works not only engaged Seville’s and social practice but also raised concern for crucial importance to the seventieth century Sevillians. As a young artist, Velazquez was satisfied with such essential questions like women’s place in the community. This book, therefore, offers a close reading of personal paintings about their critical context, historical framework, as well as early receptions. Through this strategy, Tiffany demonstrates some of the well-known masterpieces as well as fluid binderies between modern forms of visual expression and great Art.

Tinterow, Gary, Edouard Manet, Genevieve Lacambre, and Diego R. S. Velazquez. Manet, Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting: [published in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Manet/Velazquez: the French Taste for Spanish Painting" Held at the Musee D'orsay, Paris (September 16, 2002, to January 12, 2003) and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (March 4 to June 8, 2003). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art., 2003. Print.

With close to two hundred works of Spanish and French artists, Tinterow et al. (71) account for the development that Art has always had concerning the cultural influence. Therefore, they map the interesting shift in the paradigm of painting, right from idealism to realism, Italy to Span, and Renaissance to Baroque. In this book, it is well illustrated that some painting such as that of Velazquez has direct contact with Spanish painting aroused imagination of the seventieth century French artists thereby, bring about the triumph of realism in the 1860s, as well as the foundation of modern Art.