Careful brush strokes using the correct brush can make your floral acrylic painting on a canvas look like the best painting in the world. Sunflowers are a great example of painting a flower with acrylic paint.
Painting Culture : The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic “dot” paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often as a participant-observer—the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise, Myers looks at how the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values. He tracks the way these paintings become high art as they move outward from indigenous communities through and among other social institutions—the world of dealers, museums, and critics. At the same time, he shows how this change in the status of the acrylic paintings is directly related to the initiative of the painters themselves and their hopes for greater levels of recognition.
Painting Culture describes in detail the actual practice of painting, insisting that such a focus is necessary to engage directly with the role of the art in the lives of contemporary Aboriginals. The book includes a unique local art history, a study of the complete corpus of two painters over a two-year period. It also explores the awkward local issues around the valuation and sale of the acrylic paintings, traces the shifting approaches of the Australian government and key organizations such as the Aboriginal Arts Board to the promotion of the work, and describes the early and subsequent phases of the works’ inclusion in major Australian and international exhibitions. Myers provides an account of some of the events related to these exhibits, most notably the Asia Society’s 1988 “Dreamings” show in New York, which was so pivotal in bringing the work to North American notice. He also traces the approaches and concerns of dealers, ranging from semi-tourist outlets in Alice Springs to more prestigious venues in Sydney and Melbourne.
With its innovative approach to the transnational circulation of culture, this book will appeal to art historians, as well as those in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies, and performance studies.
Block Designs With Color
Block designs are among the most basic that you can work with as you begin your journey as an acrylic painter. For such work, all you will need is some tape and paint, and then, just by putting some tape on a white piece of paper, you can paint your heart out and have a nice abstract painting.
Starry Nights are so adorable and mesmerizing that it might look like it’s hard to create. You can paint geometric-shaped starry nights, which is simpler than other types of acrylic painting and could be a good start!
Fruits And Donuts
Fruits and donuts make a great combination as food items. But having to paint them together is a whole other level of joy. For this one, you can use white cardboard, canvas, or any plastic surface to make it look unique and stand out.
And with your painting, you can whip up a beautiful painting consisting of donuts and fruits like pineapple. You can further look into using acrylic paint on plastic surfaces to understand better how you can paint.
Lanes And Paths
When it comes to acrylic painting, lanes and paths with shaded colors can be something you can go for. Many great artists have admired the landscape and how it brings out a great deal of peace. As a result, you should definitely go for it, not because it brings out the peace, but because it is very easy to paint and can be a great painting idea.
Everyone around us likes forests and trees. And painting a forest or a tree is one of the easiest and is indeed the most recommended kind of idea for those new to acrylic painting.
Painting an autumn forest with leaves and the vibrant colors of orange, red, and yellow is something you can go for. For trees, we suggest the idea of a rainbow tree, which can be a great example and an easy one as well.
