About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 248. Chapters: History of painting, Oil painting, Index of painting-related articles, Mural, History painting, En plein air, Painterliness, Style, Western painting, 20th-century Western painting, Watercolor painting, Italian Renaissance painting, Self-portrait, Portrait painting, Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting, Landscape art, Abstract art, Historic paint analysis, Hierarchy of genres, Renaissance art, Digital painting, Genre works, Nocturne, Panorama, Combine painting, Pittura infamante, Coloring book, Let's Paint TV, The Joy of Painting, ISCC-NBS system, Pentimento, United Artists Rating, Kate Vrijmoet, Inscape, Cabinet painting, Walldog, Tondo, Triptych, Outline of painting, Figura serpentinata, Grand manner, Art nude, Outline of painting history, Speed painting, Mixed media, Staffage, Problem picture, Ghost sign, Live painting, Polyptych, Wash, Tenebrism, National Linseed Oil Trust, Overdoor, Theory of painting, Predella, Sign painting, Paint Dancing, Orange peel, Painting restoration, Monkey painting, Paint robot, French standard sizes for oil paintings, Sofa painting, Flatness, Local color, Diploma Work, Academy figure, Pliage, Incised painting, Pachgum. 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 ...
