Direct Painting

Painting is one of the most important things in any country’s culture. As literature, music, and other elements of art, painting also is important. From painting, people can discover how any country’s culture looks like so painting is important. As any other elements of art, painting has many methods; one of the most important methods is Direct Painting.

The Direct Painting, which is known also as alla prima or premier coup painting, refers to a method by which the artist applies each stroke of paint to the canvas with the intention of letting it stand in the picture as part of the final statement. There is to be no retouching or over painting after the first layer of paint has dried so this style carries the idea of finished a painting in a single application of paint in one sitting and it does not have any overlapping. It also refers to the painting in opaque tones directly from life. Usually, Direct Painting calls for almost sloppy workings of the brush. In addition, the piece might call for rubbing in multiple directions. Because the style of direct painting is very simple, it needs a lot of planning on the part of the artist since form and color must be considered simultaneously in the creation of the piece. Historically, the style of direct painting has been utilized by the early impressionists and abstract impressionists; the simplicity and boldness in pieces of direct painting work doubly to stimulate feeling in the observer. In fact, there are a lot of painters who used the style of direct painting in their paintings; the two most important painters who used the style of direct painting in their paintings were Diego Velazquez and Manet.

Diego Velazquez was one of the most important direct painting’s painters. The style of direct painting was first and most notably pioneered by him. Velazquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. Actually, He created scores of the portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, commoners, and culminating in the production of his masterpiece, Las Meninas. From the first quarter of the nineteenth century, VelÐ"ÐŽzquez's artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Manet. In fact, Velazquez painted a lot of wonderful paintings; he paints With Maria Teresa of Spain (with two watches), The Forge of Vulcan, Pablo de Valladolid, Las Meninas, Los Borrachos, and others. The Pablo de Valladolid painting was one of his best paintings. This painting was painted with oil colors on canvas; it was for a buffoon man. It was a very simple picture for a simple man who was a buffoon. It used a direct painting’s style; there was no overlapping in the painting and the colors were natural. Also, the shadows of the light appeared in the painting. At last, from the painting and use of colors, people can realize that this painting used the direct style.

The second important painter was Manet. Manet was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from realism to impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the