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After the thousands of years of iteration the art of painting has developed in many types. Every type has its own method, purpose and style. Here we are going to talk about the Landscape Painting. What is it? Landscape painting is one of the prominent types of painting. As it name tells, it is depiction of natural scenery like mountains, sky, rivers, trees, etc. in well-composed manner. In most cases, sky and weather are the key factors. Artist tries to create a mood or theme by these two elements. Like, red blooded sky and gloomy environment in well-known painting The Scream, generates an awful feel. While by using these two elements, Jacob van Ruisdael has created very beautiful scenery in his work The Windmill at […]

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In the beginning, there were two types of museums, private and public. The private museums were just collections of antiquities and artifacts by a random personality and were not allowed to general public. It was kind of private property. One famous example is Princess Eniggaldi’s museums, which is considered by historians as the world’s first private museum existed around 530 BC. But it was not open for general public. Then, when did the museums like today commenced? The museums available for public emerged much later than Ennigaldi’s. It was in 1471 when the Pope Sixtus II donated some ancient artifacts to the public of Rome. It was the first public museum named as Capitoline Museums. Right after that, the Vatican museums were established in 1506 […]

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The renaissance or the re-birth of arts happened in Europe in early 14th century. It bought some huge and fundamental changes in people’s mentality and the perspective on life. As a part of the change, the importance of arts increased in general public. More and more people got interested in arts and more and more skillful artist emerged in the society. Artists started innovating ideas and techniques to improve their art. For instance, before the renaissance, in paintings, the size and placement of the objects in were uncertain. You can have a big person standing right next to a house which is the same size of the person. Artists of the renaissance solved this problem with the idea of perspective and proportion, which basically changed […]

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Some of us have heard about him and some of us art-geeks know him very well for his unique style of Tenebrism (a sub-type of Chiaroscuro technic) in his paintings. He left his marks on the art of painting by his dark and violent representations of mythological incidents. Young artists of his era were already praising him as a god and his creations as miracles. And the influenced artists – who copied his style and methods – were called “Caravaggisti” or “Caravaggesque”. Reaching the peak of his fame, he was even nicknamed as the “Most Famous Painter of Rome”. Every well-known artist led a similar life of training, roaming around the artistic cities to explore more about the art, gaining the skill, producing masterpieces and being so […]

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