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Art Basics: Paintings
Q. What is Figurative Painting? This term is commonly used to describe a general category of paintings in which the human form is a dominant feature. The category includes: portraiture, subject-paintings, “conversation pieces”, and genre-pictures. Q. What are the advantages of using oil paints? Oil paint (typically a mixture of pigments and vegetable oils like linseed,... »
Art Basics:Drawings
Types of Visual Art Forms: Drawing Q. What are the main types of drawing media? Which artists were best at sketching? In ancient Greece, artists used a metal stylus to draw on papyrus. During the Renaissance period, the stylus was used with a variety of different metallic alloys to create other dry media like metalpoint and... »
Art Basics: Types of Art
Q. What is “modern art”? There is no exact meaning or definition of the term “Modern Art.” Traditionally, it denotes the period between approximately 1860 and the mid-to-late 1960s, during which artists rejected past Renaissance-based traditions, in favor of new forms of artistic expression. Q. What is “contemporary art”? Although there is no universal definition of... »
