Landscape painting is a highly popular genre in Western art, with a long and established tradition. Landscapes typically portray a variety of natural scenes, including mountains, rivers, valleys, forests, fields, and coasts. This definition was[…]
Oil painting is arguably one of the best known and most used painting mediums. Oil paint consists of suspending various pigments in a drying oil that acts as the binder. A variety of oils can[…]
Pop Art is a movement that emerged in 1950s Britain and exploded into enormous and everlasting success in 1960s America. Pop art employed a new, bold aesthetic inspired by popular culture such as advertising, comic[…]
Portraiture is a genre of painting that focuses on depicting a human subject. Historically, portraits have often been commissioned and portray either public or private figures, which gives them importance as historical records; they recorded[…]
Realism is traditionally used to describe the 19th century movement that used everyday scenes and people as the subject and painted them in a naturalistic style. The term is also used to describe works of[…]
Street art is visual art that is created in public locations, outside of traditional art venues. It is connected to graffiti art in that it is generally unsanctioned and in public spaces, but it includes[…]
Watercolour paint consists of pigments suspended in water, which gives the paint a translucent effect. Watercolour artists often paint on paper, exploring the transparency of the paint and leaving sections unpainted to highlight certain[…]
As a subgroup of still life, Vanitas describes everything ephemeral. There are mainly two categories: symbols of death and extinction of life, such as death skulls, candles and withered flowers, and, on the other hand,[…]
The portrait, the representation of a certain person, is still a popular genre of painting. With the depiction of gods and biblical figures, the genre of portrait painting finds its beginning in the Middle Ages.[…]
At the end of the 18th century, classicism paved the way for art. Reverted to the baroque and the allegory, the artists of the Classicist movement were inspired by the understanding of beauty from Ancient[…]
