It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.
Category Archive: Painting
Understanding the mental processes involved in painting is vital to understanding how reflections could go wrong.
If you haven’t seen or used Apple’s 27″ Retina 5K display, you ought to. It’s the best display that I have used.
What could happen next year, if you keep your tongue in your cheek…
Did the Impressionists invent plein air painting? And was Impressionism dependent on the supply of oil paints in tubes?
Trees in snowy landscapes, as painted by Bruegel, van Ruisdael, Courbet, and a multitude of Impressionists. A Wintry feast.
Do you have a ‘photographic memory’ which can recall vivid images from the past?
How to use prototypes to save effort, custom user attributes to store content, and run commands, to great effect.
To date, explanations of discrepancies in Cézanne’s reflections have assumed that they were intentional. Were they, or could they have been the result of his diabetes?
Few landscape painters since have not been deeply influenced by his pioneering paintings. He also anticipated photographic effects on focus.
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