The popularities of oil paintings in societies and the degree of engagement it has on the viewers…

The above unfinished-statement invites us to observe oil painting deeper to understand their impacts on the artist and the viewers.  With probable agreements, most people enjoy oil painting because the work-of-art has a personal interrelation with the viewers.  Personal experiences and memories expressed in the painting draw viewers closer to the artist, hence, making the painting and viewers inseparable.  For financial motivations, there are collectors whom buy paintings for personal or corporate investments.  Their pursuance of the piece-of-art may have no personal interrelation with the artist nor the subject expressed in the paintings.  Regardless, the investor must see the embodied values the painting carries to influence the investor to buy.  Everyone is entitled to his or her own interest but in this article, motives driven from investments viewpoint will be placed aside; the inter-connection between the artist, their artwork and the viewers will be elaborated.

When we enjoy artwork completed by an artist, often time, we seek to understand the processing technique, the mood of the color, the medium used, the detail strokes and the effort put in.  Consolidating all of these factors, the viewer would then bind the artwork with a fixed value: expensive, poor, beautiful, freed etc.  That is a common process most people would go through when presented with an artwork.

Perceptible changes in viewers’ impressions are seen when presented with self-oil-portraits or artworks that establish an intimate connection with the viewers.  These types of paintings do not quite follow the same analytical process.  The viewer audiences immediately flashback and relate himself or herself to the memorable moment express in the painting.  For this exact reason, art beauty is often time indescribable because the spirit outweigh the artistry execution.  Hence, one viewer may see the painting with high enthusiasm while others may exhibit complete foreignness feeling.  A significant question to put on the table is how luxury it is to acquire such personal painting.

In the older days, acquiring a self-portrait demand the subject character to pose long hours in front of the portraitist.  Any alteration to pose position would risk damaging and create uncertainties in the final painting.  This difficulty multiplies when the painting is a family portrait including more than one character.  Consequently, this process makes it challenging for anyone to find the time and the strength to endure until the painting completes.  From an economical point of view, this process incurs extremely high pricing to complete one self-portrait.  Depends on the artist’s reputation, a self-portrait may range from $1,500-$35,000 and only the wealthy would be able to afford.

With the aid of today’s photographic camera, self-portrait is effortless from the consumers’ point of view.  Customers would send in their favorite photograph to the portraitist to commission the painting capturing the exact figures with emotion and feeling.  This technique relieves the customer from finding time to pose in front of portraitist for long hours.  If multiple family members are living distant from each other, portraitist may also combine multiple characters from multiple photographs and harmonize them into one final oil canvas.  Not only is this a convenient process to commission a self/family oil portrait, it is also economical as well.  Artists are no longer required to rent spacious studio for customers to pose and still photographs would never re-position the figure differently, making the paint process quicker and affordable.

There are numerous sources on the web that service Picture to Painting, here at ArtistViewpoint.com, Picture to Painting is 100% satisfaction guaranteed and is done by professional portraitists.  The duration to complete a Picture to Oil Painting takes approximately ten days and pricing is very competitive since no spacious area is required.

Whether the demand is a wedding oil portrait, anniversary oil portrait, graduation oil portrait or self-oil portrait, ArtistViewpoint.com guarantees satisfaction and is confident in delivery a completely personal oil masterpiece that would endure a lifetime memories.

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Graduation Oil Portrait

Anniversary Oil Portrait

Unforgetable memories

Wedding Oil Portrait