Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too.
history of painting
Depicted as a physical place full of demons, torment and eternal suffering, and a deterrent to all those who commit sins on earth.
Christian visions of Heaven or Paradise are usually less of a location than an array of figures. Examples from 1475-1916.
Although born in Russia, he moved to Kyiv in 1877, and for 30 years was a key figure in art education there, teaching several of the important painters from the early 20th century.
With Greek defeat imminent, Patroclus dons Achilles’ armour and puts the Trojans to rout. He chases them to the city’s gate, where he’s killed by Hector.
The modified myth of Pandora remained popular well into the 20th century, when it must have seemed even more appropriate with war and pandemic.
The original Greek myth was almost unknown in paintings until the mid-19th century, then, slightly changed, it became one of the most popular myths in paintings.
The hard road to realism: development and propagation of knowledge, how to apply it in paintings, and its benefit on visual art.
Examples of putting figures in the spotlight from paintings of Tiepolo, David, Goya, Gérôme, Thomas Eakins, and others.
Using shadows to tell or add detail to a visual story. Examples by Robert Campin, Gérôme. William Holman Hunt, Lovis Corinth and others.
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