After A Wedding Analysis

After a Wedding by Janet Fish was painted in 2002. It is an oil painted piece and measures in at 60in x 70in. Oil paints are pigment mixed with ,usually, linseed oil and painted on a canvas. Janet Fish was born May 18, 1938 and is a contemporary realist artist out of America. She paints still life which is a painting or drawing of carefully placed objects such as fruit, flowers, bowls, or objects found around a household. Fish grew up in Bermuda after her family moved there when she was 10 years old. She grew up in a very artistic family and knew at a young age she wanted to pursue visual arts. Fish originally wanted to focus on sculpture but later changed her mind to painting after attending Yale University School of Art and Architecture from 1960-1963. In 1963 she became the first women to earn a Master of Fine Arts from Yale’s School of Art and Architecture. She is well known for her large realistic still life paintings, especially in the way she paints everyday items. She concentrates on the shapes of the objects and the way the light hits off
Before oil paint was popular their was the medium tempura. But, Northern Europe came to the realization that using oil paints gave the same effects as tempura but it was more readily available and effectively achieved. Oil painting is very versatile and can be painted right on the canvas which gives the painting a variety of hues and colors as well as light. As you can see in After a Wedding, Janet fish uses the oil paint to create a three dimensional effect, this is done by using the oil paint right out of the tube and taking advantage of its thick consistency which is referred to as impasto. She also uses the oil paints versatilely to create an illusion of illuminate light as though the sun is shining down on the still life. This is achieved by glazing the painting with thin films of translucent colors giving it its luminous