Kokoschka

The Subject of this painting is to capture the beauty in the city that Kokoschka is painting, to capture it at that moment in time. There is so much going on in this painting and every brush stroke catches my attention and makes me question how he saw what he was painting. It makes me feel as if I were actually there during a very busy day, so much going on in the water and everything around it. I like that Kokoschka used blotches to make the further buildings and scenery, It gives it more color that is all smashed together but still forms something that can be translated in the mind. It leaves the rest to be created in my mind in the style that was used. To me its a perfectly painted blob of different colors to form what was seen at the time in the head of the artist.

View Of Constantinople 

http://bestarts.org/artist/oskar-kokoschka/paintings/view-of-constantinople/