Art History

He was part of the surrealism movement. This movement was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung. You can find more info at artcyclopedia.com and you can get prints of his most famous works at http://www.posterunlimited.com/.

If you are using oil paint because it can attack the canvas then a gesso coat is advisable. If acrylic, because it is non-degradable, you can paint directly onto the bare canvas. I suppose it all depends the quality of fineness or finish of the painting.

Eileen Gray was known as a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. She was born on August 8, in 1878 and died on October 31, in 1976. It is believed that she designed her famous side table for her guest room for her sister, who enjoyed eating in bed.

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She was also one of the most important and premiere female artists of the 20th century. She took florals as her subject and created large, out-of-scale, detail

paintings. I saw her work at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York. Although her work expresses beauty, ease and contentment in her choice of colors and subject matter, historians and critics view her work as intense, having sexual content and celebrating female genetalia. She started painting early in life and continued to do so until her eyesight prevented her from going on. She died when she was 99. -Perneys32

ancient Greece and Rome

Not many paintings survive from ancient Greece because most were done on wood board and were not well protected. Surviving are numerous examples of vase painting. These pieces range from drinking vessels to urns and date from the 6th century BC. The first style is Geometric moving into Black figure, (black silhouettes on a red background) later styles develop into a red and white figure. Most major museums have some sort of Greek Pottery. The Louvre, Delphi Archaeological Museum, museums in London, Munich and Athens have large collections. The famous Renaissance painter El Greco is also a Greek painter, and Demetrios Galanis is an early 20th century artist, so it is best to specify which era is of interest.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

Albrecht Durer and Matthias Grunewald are perhaps the most famous German Renaissance figure painters. This Renaissance occurred between 1430 and 1580.

Amongst other things, modernism was a response to the first World War.

In the very shortes answer possible, Leonardo da vici VINCI was an artist who painted during the Renaissance. He was most famous for painting the Mona Lisa and Last Supper.

you can find it in a gallery

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take your time, do all the things that pop art has- like bright colours or you could stick to a particular artists style to make it easier :)

Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer. Tanning's artistic style and materials changed throughout her long career. Her paintings are primarily oil on canvas, one of her most well-known being Birthday from 1942. Tanning began to create mixed media works later in her career; the materials for these artworks, such as Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (1970-73), include ping-pong balls, wool, synthetic fur, and cardboard. Upholstered furniture is also crucial to many of Tanning's mixed media sculptural pieces.

We are in the Cenozoic Era which began after the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other life forms.

The word mannerism refers to a behavior, gesture, or way of speaking. Mannerisms are often habitual and can sometimes be considered abnormal through exaggeration or repetition.

c.1225, but no later than 1231, "skill as a result of learning or practice," from Old French art, from Latin artem, (nom. ars) "art, skill, craft," from Proto Indo European ar-ti- (Sanskrit. rtih "manner, mode;" Greek. arti "just," artios "complete;" Armenian arnam"make," Germanic art "manner, mode"), from base ar-"fit together, join" In Middle European usually with sense of "skill in scholarship and learning" (c.1305), especially in the seven sciences, or liberal arts (divided into the trivium -- grammar, logic, rhetoric -- and the quadrivium --arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy).

well think about what it is for then ask that question again...

Duchamp said:

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

To Duchamp it was not important who had made an object, but whether a viewer could regard it as art.

This has changed the definition of 'art'.

Atmospheric perspective is an illusion used to make a 2-dimensional art piece look 3-dimensional. Things in the back of the painting are grayer and less detailed than things at the front of the painting. This mimics how things that are closer to you are easier to see more clearly.

The Realism movement in America came about as a direct rejection of Romanticism following the Civil War. As the Industrial Revolution kicked into high gear, a more educated working class emerged and there was a need to depict their lives. The period of Realism ran from the end of the American Civil War until the start of the new century.

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Post-Modernism.

One can find information on Western art history at any large library. Western art history is one of the more popular art history topics, so the local library is bound to have some books on the topic (no pun intended).