The romantic brushstrokes stand out, which is distinguished by being dense, with an intense color. In the baroque, rococo, romanticism and classicism styles, it was developed a brushstroke work that controls the volume of paint, its thickness and with transparency. Brushstrokes of romanticism.ĭelacroix, Rubens and Goya are three masters of well-crafted brushwork. 2 – Brushstroke with volume or transparency. For example, the leaves and flowers are created on paper with the exactly touches of paint, where the gesture and movement of the hand generates the shape. Some of the techniques most closely related to the form of the brushstroke are the ancient oriental style, Ukiyo-e and the Tsukinami-e landscaping. Brush strokes to create the form and the pictorial style 1 – Freehand brush strokes. What I want is to think about the brushstroke and the gesture that it generates in the painting, creating a shape directly on the composition.
Neither the linear use of the brush, generating a drawing, nor the use of spatulas, scratching the paint, filling with other techniques or splashing paint. In this topic I am interested in the use of the brush, not as a tool to fill the shapes that we have defined into the painting. This is the case of the first avant-gardes: impressionism, expressionism, pointillism and abstraction. Many artists have created a new style just by changing their brush strokes, inventing a new way of applying paint. Therefore, to think about the types of brushstrokes that we can create in painting, we also have to think about the types of visual style where the use of the brush stands out. Pictorial styles and brush strokes are totally related.