Fauvism Painting

                           
                                                                   Garden Contours
                                                                    Acrylic Painting
                                                                      by Carol Yap


This is the time of bounty in the garden. Everything lush, blooming and growing like mad. One thing ends it's bloom cycle and another takes center stage. Lilacs, daffodils, tulips are finished blooming. Now it's peonies, iris, allium, azealeas and more! It's also hot, sticky thunderstorm weather, but that is what summer heat loving plants love. Like Dahlias and Cannas.

I'm still in the gardening mode even inside. Garden Contours is a portrait I painted yesterday. Basically I was feeling free and yet connected to the garden. The style is Fauvism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Modern Art. Does any artist fall into one category? Fauvism consisted of a small group of eclectic artists that painted landscapes and portraits in bright non realistic colors or in tonal hues.  It would have been shocking from the darker paintings of the Old Masters and rather delicious colors.

There are prints for sale at Saatchi Art online. They mail the prints directly to you.