What is your opinion about this topic? Two of the painters I admire the most are Turner and Caravaggio. Two completely different approaches about painting, but I have the feeling that if Caravaggio was a contemporary artist he could be labelled as too photorealistic.. in fact in his paintings u can see the wall of the studio, the same furniture in every painting, even models and also reflex of the tiniest thing including himself on a vase. I would like to have your opinion and if this discussion is not fitting the forum can be removed by the admin.
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If Caravaggio was alive today, he would make a killing as a scifi fantasy illustrator and would elevate the genre.
I strongly disagree also (sorry if I sound serious ahaha) with the sci fi parto too. There is nothing into Caravaggio coming from fantasy, his studio was his camera obscura and his canvas his pellicula. Nothing his fictional everything is real. Subject and composition are mainly what he used to express his genius. Tables, drapery, vase, clothes even giant wings! are real. He put up a studio and painted what he saw, until the last minute details for this there are no elaborated backgrounds (90 percent of the time walls of his studio) and nothing is coming from the except what I just said before. Now all this waffling and maybe I didn't even explained myself about this topic..
If you do want to learn that then the methods taught by Mark Carder are not very applicable other than learning to match a particular color. His application method and strategy are completely different than what is required to paint like Caravaggio.
Not sure if you have seen much scifi or fantasy art of late, but some of those guys are pretty damn good, and they use reference material (they don't make it all up out of their head). The only one I can think of that didn't use a lot of reference material was Frank Frazetta but he was kind of an anomaly. My only point being is someone with his level of talent could do extremely well in this particular market even if the fine art market wasn't accepting of his sort of work now.
Looking at your previous posts I think you would be well suited to Caravaggio's techniques. Based on your drawing you posted you already have that sort of mind set.