There is a strong correlation between the number of clicks required to complete a task and your subjective feeling of dissatisfaction with that app’s human interface.
Sargent
Apart from his early years as a somewhat atypical member of the Macchiaioli, Boldini remained on the periphery of those other movements and kept his distinctive style as the Master of Swish.
The importance of relative size, and height in the picture plane, in imparting depth and space in painting.
How many times have you heard it said that mark-making is a sign of abstraction in painting?
A short overview of each of the eleven painters and paintings featured so far in the series ‘Favourite Paintings’, forming a concise history of painting from 1400 to 1914.
This startlingly realistic depiction of idle moments by the side of an alpine stream is composed of bravura brush strokes, dabs and daubs of bright colour. But it is a carefully contrived illusion, in every respect.
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