Calendar
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
- Abstract Painting
- Academicism
- Analytical Cubism
- Baroque Style
- Classicism
- Color
- Dadaism Painting
- Early Renaissance
- Expressionism
- Fauvism
- High Renaissance
- How to
- Impressionism Painting
- line
- Mannerism
- Modernism
- Neoclassicism
- Neoplasticism
- Northern Renaissance
- Oil Painting
- Oil painting artist
- Orientalism
- Pop art
- portrait
- Post-Impressionism
- Primitivism
- Realism
- Renaissance
- Rococo
- Romanticism Painting
- Sketch
- Suprematism
- Surrealism
- Symbolism
- Tenebrism
Links
Artisoo Tag
Alfred Sisley appreciation art artisoo Baroque color Genre Painting Gustav Klimt Henri Matisse high renaissance history Impressionism introduction Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Francois Millet Joseph Mallord William Turner Joseph William Turner landscape painting Landscapes Leonardo Da Vinci life mythology Neoclassicism Norman Rockwell nude figure oil painting oil paintings painting paintings Pierre Auguste Renoir Portrait Portraits Raphael Realism religious oil painting Rembrandt van Rijn Renaissance Romanticism Self portrait still life Titian Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh wall art works
Monthly Archives: December 2012
A Girl Reading
In a series of Renoir paintings that present ladies reading, Monet's wife has been one of the models. We can imagine that when Renoir was painting attentively, he glimpsed the girl who was reading. She was sitting leisurely by the window. Bathing … Continue reading
Posted in Impressionism Painting, Oil Painting
Tagged A girl, oil painting, Pierre Auguste Renoir
Comments Off
What Is Post-impressionism?
Post-impressionism referred to the art following the impressionism from 1980s to 1990s in France. The title of post-impressionism was created by the British art critic R. Fray. The main representatives were P. Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh and P. Gauguin. They … Continue reading
Posted in Impressionism Painting, Oil Painting
Tagged oil painting, Post-Impressionism, post-impressionists
Comments Off
How To Appreciate and Collect Oil Paintings?
In the appreciation of paintings, both oil paintings and traditional Chinese paintings focus on the composition, layout, artistic conception and the use of color. But the tools of oil paintings are different, which the pigments are painted on the cloth. … Continue reading
What Is Pop Art?
Pop art was concerning the study of popular culture and related art movements. At the same time, it had somewhat ironic meanings and the extended human nature. Simply speaking, pop art grew out of the current art market. Although Pop … Continue reading
Color and Character, Are They Related?
Psychologists believe that colors people tend to choose for things they need depend on a few factors: fashion trends, one's mood and state of mind, and even their character traits may also play a role. The first two factors are … Continue reading
The Third-Class Carriage--Life Experience of Honore Daumier
Honore Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter and sculptor, whose many works offered commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. He was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the … Continue reading
Renaissance Oil Painting The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus was the masterpiece of the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Under the strict ideological control in the Middle Ages, the beautiful Venus in Greek and Roman art was regarded as "pagan banshee" and burned down. Until the … Continue reading
Where did Impressionism Originated?
The word and the genre impressionism is originated from Claude Monet's (1840—1926) masterpiece Impression, Soleil Levant( Impression Sunrise ). Critics at that time says their works are more of just an impression, but not images. But why must all the paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Impressionism Painting, Oil Painting
Tagged Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, Impressionism
Comments Off
Still Life:Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
It is no doubt that Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers is the most well-known work of Vincent van Gogh. When he drew the painting, he was abnormally excited. The golden petals of sunflowers bought him a sense of warmth. So … Continue reading
Posted in Impressionism Painting, Oil Painting
Tagged Floral Painting, Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh
Comments Off
