About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: History of painting, Impressionist music, Salon des Refuses, Abstract impressionism, Theodore Lukits, Traian Demetrescu, California Plein-Air Painting, California Plein-Air Revival, Carlos Salzedo, Heidelberg School, Japonism, Richard E. Miller, Divisionism, Porfirio Salinas, Decorative Impressionism, Neo-impressionism, American Impressionism, Tonal Impressionism, Italo Mus, Foundation E.G. Buhrle, Young Poland, Lindsay Dawson, Samuel Courtauld, Polish Impressionism, Box Hill artists' camp, Paul Durand-Ruel, Wildenstein Index Number, Outline of painting history, The Impressionists, Cos Cob Art Colony, Daniel Wildenstein, Tonalism, James H. Rubin, Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley, Pennsylvania Impressionism, Cafe Guerbois, Maison Fournaise, Synthetic impressionism, Luminism, Amsterdam Impressionism. Excerpt: The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor. Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, eventually, vice-versa. Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Eastern and Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Modern era, the Middle Ages ...
