Some articles on paintings, painting:
... as the tulip (imported to Europe from Turkey), were celebrated in still life paintings ... capitalized on that to produce thousands of still life paintings ... creation of modern still life paintings around 1600 ...
... and allegorical connotations of still life paintings were dropped and kitchen table paintings evolved into calculated depictions of varied color and form, displaying ... The French aristocracy employed artists to execute paintings of bounteous and extravagant still life subjects that graced their dining table, also without the moralistic vanitas message of ... to a rise in appreciation in France for trompe-l'œil (French "trick the eye") painting ...
... starting with Giotto and his pupils, still life painting was revived in the form of fictional niches on religious wall paintings which depicted everyday objects ... highly detailed optical realism and symbolism led them to lavish great attention on their paintings' overall message ... The development of oil painting technique by Jan van Eyck and other Northern European artists made it possible to paint everyday objects in this hyper-reali ...
... Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted ...
Famous quotes containing the word paintings:
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process—a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made—constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes—but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”
—Jean Szarkowski (b. 1925)