How to Care for your oil Paintings
2008-5-6 3:37:43 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Oil paintings and their frames are made of many different materials. These consist of a paint layer on a support such as canvas,such as paint, canvas, wood, metal and plaster. Together they form a complex configuration that is easily damaged if knock...
Oil painting invented in Asia, not Europe
2008-5-4 22:33:49 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Scientists have proved and brought to light new evidence that places the development of oil paintings in Asia, and several centuries earlier than the previously assumed development in Europe in the 15th Century that the paints used were based of oil,...
landscape in American development
2008-5-2 2:56:48 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Landscapes play a concerning role in American art and came to predominate American art in the 1830's, when artists began to equate the country's unspoiled wilderness with the new nation's seemingly limitless potential.As industrial development pushed...
oil painting
2008-5-1 21:37:46 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil — especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; the...
Klimt - Baby
2008-5-1 21:35:21 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Hand painted oil reproduction of a famous Klimt oil paintings, Baby. The original masterpiece was created in 1917-1918. Today it has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the...
Monet - The Manneporte near Etretat
2008-5-1 21:33:41 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Hand painted oil reproduction of a famous Monet oil painting, The Manneporte near Etretat. The original masterpiece was created in 1885-86. Today it has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection. Why settle for a pr...