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Cuihua Lin

Mr. Hayes

English100 [1:10-2:00]

1/23/13

Word count 888

                                                             The Art        

           Art is noble which has a wonderful melody and includes simple of true line. Having the art, our lives become more and more alive. I have one of my cousins who prefers to art even though her parents disagree her to learn to draw. Because her parents think that it is not relate to the major that her parents want her to take. However, she still insists on learning the art. She said, “ Art is very useful because there are a lot of beautiful historic scenes or personal portrait that are relying on art to hand down.” Painting not only gives her pleasure, also can convey her emotion. When she was happy, she will use color strokes to draw down how happy she was. When she was unhappy, she will wipe off her bad mind by using the painting pigment. I agree with my cousin’s insistence.  Under her influence, I am from an uninformed reader to understand what the art is. I have learned that the art is not only using the drawing pen to draw pictures, but also can use many kinds of tools to paint beautiful pictures. Which means there are many kinds of styles art. In order to make more people to know about and be interested in the art, I will list the most common styles of the art.

            OIL PAINTING: This style’s works most come from western countries. The Oil Painting has to use special oil paints and canvas materials because it can make the works be brighter and be kept for a long time. When we draw the oil painting, it has two ways to tint pictures. The first way is called transparent cladding process, which uses the pigment of the toner oil dilution to draw many times at the first level.  When the color of the fist level is dried, we can color the next level. When the work is done, we can see each of the level’s color is thin, and we can see all level’s colors, which forms a magnificent picture. The second way is named opaque cover color law, which is similarity in the first way. However, the difference is the shape and thickness are not the same and it need to wait for a long time until the color of the first level is very dried. Then we can continue do the next step so that it can increase the color saturation of the screen.

            TCP (Traditional Chinese Painting):  It is the one of the art styles, but it is different from the oil painting. When people draw the Traditional Chinese Painting, it has to use some tools and materials which are brushes, ink, painting pigments, and xuan paper. The painter who wants to draw TCP should conceive a well draft in his/her mind so that he/she can prevent to pain any of wrong strokes. Traditional Chinese Painting itself has own obvious features.  Comparing to the oil painting, painters often drew some landscape, human figures, flowers and plants, and birds by using the Traditional Chinese Painting. TCP does not care much about the colors and the lightness of the nature objects. However, it emphasizes the expression of authors’ emotion and ideas. From the Traditional Chinese Painting, we can always see the spectacular landscape views.

            SAND PAINTING: Sand Painting, combining with music through the projector to show on the screen is also called Dynamic Sand Painting. Ferenc Cake, the famous sand painting master, who created the sand painting was from Hungary in earlier years. In recent years, Sand Painting more often appears on the stage performance. The painters can always finish the work in a short time, and they always make audiences feel surprised. Sand Painting is using the sand to paint the scene in the white backdrop, and it can be presented in anywhere by anytime. For example, if someone married, the sand painting can share the bride and the bridegroom’s love stories with visitors at the wedding. What’s more, Sand Painting can attract the audience to enter a great and dreamlike scene so that they can feel like they are seeing the scene in the real world, which can makes them enjoy the special feelings. Sand painting enriches our lives.

            SKETCH:  Sketch is the earliest art in the history of mankind, and it is the oldest artistic language. Sketch is the foundation of painting, and it emphasizes the lines and the important model structures such as buildings, machines, and some weapons.  The tools for the Sketch is very simple, which we only need the pencils and papers. However, how we draw the lines is very difficult if we want draw perfect works.  When we draw some other styles art, Sketch is the basic step of arts. Therefore, if we didn’t learn well to the Sketch, it would be influenced on other learning of the art such as oil painting.

            There are lots of different styles of the art, and each of them has their own unique painting method. Having the art, our live can be more interesting; having the art, we can express our mind easier; having the art, we find out the special language that can convey our emotion. Although they have their own painting way, they all have the noble character.