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Painting Hierarchy or the Hierarchy of Genres are the six main types of painting:
1. History Painting
2. Portrait Painting
3. Genre Painting
4. Landscape Painting
5. Animal Painting
6. Still Life Painting
Most of the paintings falls in one or more of these categories and are defined, interpreted accordingly.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Recently sold for around $179.3 million in an auction held by Christie’s, making it the most expensive painting by Pablo Picasso and also a record price for a painting at any auction. It is the final painting in a painting series called ‘Les Femmes d’Alger‘ which consists 15 paintings in total. This is the ‘Version O’ painting.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Description of St. Remy by George Hruby, one of our readers, who personally has visited the place: “St. Remy is a small village that goes upward in elevation towards a mountain pass. The hospital that Van Gogh was at is located on the edge of the village at the very top, probably to be secluded somewhat from the rest of the village below. It was set among olive groves which are still there today but what was simply surreal was that also, as you walk out of the hospital grounds (which they allowed him to do to paint), you are immediately among the ruins of a Roman city called “Glanum.” One of his paintings is in fact of a Roman road lined with olive […]
