Roccoco oil paintings
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Though Roccoco originated in the purely decorative arts, the style showed clearly in oil paintings. These painters used delicate colors and curving forms, decorating their canvases with cherubs and myths of love. Portraiture was also popular among Ro...
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatili...
Light
2008-10-22 0:48:2 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Light and shade exist in a oil painting in two forms. Tone is simply the lightness and darkness of areas of a picture, graded from white to black. Tonal arrangement is a very significant feature of some oil paintings. Chiaroscuro is the modelling of ...
Thematic development of Italian Renaissance oil painting
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This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance oil painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance oil paintings, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the...
From 100 to 1000 great oil paintings
2008-10-19 21:54:48 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The Fine Arts Editor of WDR, Wibke von Bonin, developed the German version of the series. The series was produced by RM Arts, directed by Reiner E. Moritz, and narrated by Rudolf Jürgen Bartsch and the distinctive title melody was composed by Wi...
100 Great Paintings-oil paintings sales
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100 Great Oil Paintings was a television series created by Edwin Mullins for BBC 2 in 1980, in which he also acted as moderator. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of color, the hunt, and bathing, picking five oil p...
Abstract expressionism History
2008-10-15 22:27:50 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
After World War IIJean Dubuffet, Dhôtel nuancé d’abricott, 1947, Pompidou Center, ParisThe Post war period left the capitals of Europe in upheaval with an urgency to economically and physically rebuild and to politically regr...
Abstract expressionism Art critics of the post-World War II era
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In the 1940s there were not only few galleries (The Art of This Century) but also few critics who were willing to follow the work of the New York Vanguard. There were also a few artists with a literary background, among them Robert Motherwell and Bar...
Abstract expressionism paint
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Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly f...
Chinese Piling paintings
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Examples of the Piling School of Chinese oil paintings are found almost exclusively in Japan and particularly in collections associated with the great Japanese Buddhist monasteries. Such oil paintings and associated art works are a reflection o...