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noun
- 1. an artist who paints pictures: "a German landscape painter"
- 2. a person whose job is painting buildings: "a self-employed painter and decorator"
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1 day ago · Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, may be used.
1 day ago · Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism.
2 days ago · The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1657. The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity.
1 day ago · Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: / ˈ m ɒ n eɪ /, US: / m oʊ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. [1]
4 days ago · Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Among his best-known works are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1909) and Guernica (1937).
4 days ago · Paul Cézanne was a French painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
Oct 2, 2024 · World's Most Famous Paintings. A ranking list of the world's most iconic artworks - from Van Gogh's captivating subjects to Vermeer's masterpieces. #1. Mona Lisa. #2. The Starry Night. #3. The Scream. #4. The Night Watch. #5. The Kiss. #6. The Arnolfini Portrait. #7. The Girl With A Pearl Earring. #8. Impression Sunrise. #9. Las Meninas. #10.
