Examples of history painting in the following topics:
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- Oil painting is the most commonly used of all the painting mediums and involves painting with pigments that have been mixed with an oil binder.
- Oil painting is the most commonly used painting medium and involves painting with pigments that have been mixed with an oil binder.
- During the 15th century oil paint became the principal medium used to create works of art, spreading outwards from Early Netherlandish painting schools in northern Europe until the high Renaissance, when oil paint had replaced tempera paint completely throughout the majority of the continent .
- Most oil paintings are painted with brushes, but it is not uncommon for artists to use palette knives, rags or any tool at all to paint with.
- Oil paintings are traditionally painted on wood boards, or canvases made from linen or cotton that are stretched on wooden frames called stretchers .
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- The court of the Holy Roman Emperor played an important role in panel paintings during the Northern Renaissance.
- During this time period, works of art were often painted on wooden panels and are referred to as "tempera on panel" or "oil on panel."
- A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.
- Until canvas became the more popular support medium in the 16th century, panels were the normal form of support for a painting not painted directly onto a wall (known as a fresco) or vellum, which was used for miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and paintings for the framing.
- Like most painters during this time period, Durer painted on wood panels.
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- Painting in the Vijayanagar Empire, which evolved into the Mysore style of painting, is best illustrated in the elaborate wall paintings of temples.
- In addition to architecture and sculpture, the Vijayanagar emperors were enthusiastic patrons of painting.
- Absorbing the local artistic traditions and customs, the Vijayanagar school of painting gradually evolved into many styles of painting in South India, including the Mysore and Tanjore schools of painting.
- Mysore painting, an important form of South Indian classical painting, developed out of Vijayanagar painting and originated in the southern town of Mysore, in Karnataka, during the reign of the Vijayanagar emperors.
- Mysore paintings are known for their elegance, muted colors, and attention to detail.
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- In this period, the "painting of people" developed greatly.
- Buddhist painting and court painting—including paintings of the Buddha, monks, nobles, etc.
- The theory of painting also developed during this time, and Buddhism, Taoism, and traditional literature were absorbed and combined into painting.
- Paintings on architectural structures, such as murals, ceiling paintings, cave paintings, and tomb paintings, were very popular, as exemplified in the paintings of the Mogao Caves in Xinjiang.
- The painting of people reached a climax during this era.
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- Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
- Tempera paint, also known as egg tempera, is a water-soluble paint made from a mixture of pigment in an egg yolk binder.
- Tempera was the primary paint used until about 1400, at which point oil paint became more prominent.
- Tempera paint dries very quickly to a permanent, matte finish.
- Because of the transparency of the paint, paintings in tempera rarely exhibit the deep saturation of color that can be achieved with oil paint.
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- Oil painting did not gain popularity in Europe until the fifteenth century.
- Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments bound with a medium of drying oil.
- Oil paint eventually became the principal medium used for creating artworks, and by the height of the Renaissance had almost completely replaced tempera paints in the majority of Europe, although southern Italians continued to use frescoes for wall paintings.
- Surfaces like shields — both those used in tournaments and those hung as decorations — were more durable when painted in oil-based media than when painted in the traditional tempera paints.
- One of the most famous Venetian oil paintings is The Tempest (La Tempesta), painted in 1508 by Giorgione and commissioned by Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin .
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- Action painting, created by Jackson Pollock, is a style in which paint is spontaneously splattered, smeared or dripped onto the canvas.
- Action painting is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied with a brush.
- My painting does not come from the easel.
- Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of fine art paints, as "a natural growth out of a need. " He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators.
- He painted his two last works in 1955.