Painting techniques

a prominent rule breaker, an inventor of forms, an innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, has long since been recognized the genius in modern art. Picasso is known for producing an estimated 50,000 pieces of artwork, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and even tapestries and rugs. Yet the medium in which was Picasso’s most important contribution was painting, or oil painting on canvas. During the intervening years, Picasso’s work methods were…

The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893, Oil Painting,  35.75" X 29", Figure 11.28 The narrative depicted in this piece is one of hysteria, and paranoia. The scene is set on the edge of some type of wooden pier, or bridge, that stands over some body of water. The perspective from which the viewer sees seems slightly elevated above the focus of the painting, as if we are meant to look ever so slightly down at the moment taking place in the image. We only see a small portion of the wooden construct. We…

The special painting is extremely proportioned, with the right eye of the Christ figure as the single, focused disappearing point, from which all compositional basics commence. In my analysis, the disappearing point, which is also Christ's right eye, is vaguely lower…

about it. It is regarded as one of the most famous paintings in the world. It is a mural painted on a wall of The Santa Maria Thanksgiving Church in Milan, Italy. Since it was painted on a wall, it cannot be moved, so it is still remained on the wall so far. It is in size of 4.2 meters high and 9.1 meters long. And, it is a religious painting based on a story of the Holy Bible. (Encyclopedia of art education) Below is a clear image of the painting-The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. From…

The Tahoe: A Visual Experience at the Nevada Museums of Art, celebrates and showcases two centuries of cultural and creative production of art and art history of Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and surrounding Sierras. This exhibition is for the first time focusing on our local region instead of in conjunction with other national areas like Yosemite’s, Yellow Stone or the Grand Canyon. The goal of the exhibition is to allow future generations to celebrate and examine these areas, and their contribution…

The painting, “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints”, also known as, Colonna Altarpiece, is an Italian renaissance painting completed by Raphael in 1504. The altarpiece is painted on wood with oil and gold and its main panel is 172.4cm by 172.4 cm and depicts a woman sitting in a throne like chair in the middle third of the painting. She is dressed in a red dress covered by a black cloak with white spots, which covers most of her body from her hair to her feet. The folds in her cloak are…

brother took care of him for the most part when he was younger. His father was a tanner, and Sandro was apprenticed to a goldsmith by his father. However, Botticelli preferred painting, so he was placed under Filippo Lippi, who was one of the most admire Florentine masters. Lippi taught Sandro the techniques of panel painting and fresco. He also gave him an assured control of linear perspective. Botticelli had developed his own color schemes throughout his learning. Lippi had left Florence for…

and had no experience as a fresco painter. However, he quickly changed his mind and accepted the commission and then spent the next four years painting his most famous masterpiece. The Sistine Chapel’s center panel shows a series of nine stories from the Book of Genesis. Since Michelangelo was by trade, a sculptor, he used this knowledge when painting the frescos and had to first apply plaster to the ceiling before he was able to paint. Originally, the ceiling was painted blue with…

Fuendetodos, Spain. Goya’s art genre was Romanticism, and he was an influential artist of his time until his death on April 16, 1828. Goya painted The Executions of May 3, 1808, in 1814. In the painting, the artist alludes a historical occurrence that took place on May 3, 1808. On a particular day, as depicted in the painting, there was an execution of civilians which was carried out by French soldiers before dawn. The execution was a retaliation attack following a guerrilla attack that took…

still life vanitas: In the arts, vanitas is one of the symbolic work of art especially linked a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability, also it is connected with other places and periods. The word vanitas it is actually a Lation word means "vanity" and loosely translated agree to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. As applied to vanitas art, the word…