Monday, November 3, 2014

Guide To New Orleans Paintings For Sale

By Etta Bowen


Painting is the art of using graphical representation blended with other organic pigments and synthetic binders. In this art form, painting techniques, knowledge of color theory and pictorial composition and drawing are used (New Orleans paintings for sale). Practicing the art of painting is to apply on a certain surface-a sheet of paper, a canvas, a wall, a wood, a piece of tissue, etc. A particular technique to obtain a composition of shapes, colors, textures, patterns, etc. Resulting in a work of art according to esthetic principles.

Painting is an old art form and one of Seven Arts. In aesthetics or theory of modern art is considered a universal category that includes all artistic creations made on surfaces. A technique applicable to any category or type of hardware or equipment, including brackets or ephemeral techniques and media or digital techniques.

The two most important features of Mannerism were rejecting the rules and freedom in the composition, colors and shapes, novelty was a radical naturalism combining detailed physical observation with an approximation, even theatrical, by dramatic chiaroscuro, the use of light and shadow.

Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia (1918), defends the non-figurative art, relating it to a utopian conception of man as a present but undisclosed destination unconsciously in the depths of being human. If the task of painting the eyes get outside air and the beautiful vastness of space and everything else, it would be better to go directly and enjoy everything for free.

The beginning of the twentieth century is characterized by the diversity of pictorial trends: Fauvism, which rejects the traditional colors and approaching violent colors; Expressionism, which showed more feelings than the faithful reproduction of reality; Cubism with Georges Braque and Picasso, to the decomposition of three-dimensional images from two-dimensional viewpoints; and abstract painting, cubism heir.

In China and Japan are the countries where there are paintings on the theme of landscape, from the V century. In Europe, although there are elements of landscape as background for narrative scenes, or of botany and pharmacy, truly began in the sixteenth century, when the appearance of collectors began to ask subjects rustic tables and designate as specialists painters in northern Europe.

The oldest known cave paintings found in the Chauvet Cave in France, dated by some historians in 32,000 year periods between Aurignacian and Gravettian. They were made with ocher clay, red iron oxide and black manganese dioxide. They also highlight the caves of Lascaux and Altamira. Rhino, lion, buffalo, mammoths, horses or humans often are drawn.

The images seen in papyri or the walls of Egyptian tombs from 5,000 years ago, are scenes from mythology and everyday life, symbolized by the characteristic features of using the profile and size of figures and social rank. In Ancient Rome was normal decorating the walls of houses and major palaces and among the best preserved are those of Pompeii and Herculaneum.




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