Coffee

When you think of Coffee you think of that warm caffinated drink that people drink to keep themselves awake. But have you ever thought of it being more then that? Coffee can be turned into an art. The ways it can be made and the different tastes is an art but the art I want to talk about is its presentation.

Some artistic coffee shops have started to decorate the top of the coffee like these:

Some places take moviescharacter's and transfer them onto their coffee:

This is the Character Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. A little witch going out on her own.

This kind of art takes time and skill. They pour steamed milk into a shot of espressoto create the pattern. They can also simply just draw in the foam at the top. The Barista, person who serves the espresso, is the one who creates the pattern and it deepends on his experience, skill and the quality of his espresso machine to make the espresso.

you have to have good experience with this art, professionally called Latte art, inorder to do it right. If you get it too much milk the top turns white and if there is not enough it will be a brownish color and with either these you can not create a pattern.

There is also another kind of art using coffe and it is coffee art wallpaper. This art is where you take the coffee and put it on paper to make a picture using the coffee's stain. With either art it looks awesome and takes people who are very talented.

Action Paintings

Action Painting is where the paint is dabbled, splashed, or smeared onto the canvas spontaneously. This kind of painting is sometimes called gestural abstraction. Most Art is carefully applied to the canvas or what ever the art might be, but this special type of art doesn't.

Some of these Painters who are action painters, don't even use brushes. Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese artist, used animals or insects to as his tools to apply the paint. In the bottome picture was one of them. He used a maggot and covered him in paint placed them on the canvas and he watched them crawl around.

Action Painting in itself emphazises the point of the physical act of painting and that, that is the essential part of the artists concern and the end result.

Action Painting was very popluar in the 1940s until the early 1960s. It was mostly a product of World War II because of expressionism when all the quantum mechanics started to arise.

Some of the most well known of these action painters are Jackson Pollock, Jack Tworkov, Franz Cline, Albert Kotin, and many others.




Through these Action Paintings we see the most expression. The Expression and art from the mind.