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Aesthetics and theory of painting

Aesthetics is the study of art and beauty; it was an important issue for such 18th and 19th century philosophers as Kant or Hegel. Classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle also theorized about art and painting in particular; Plato disregarded painters (as well as sculptors) in his philosophical system; he maintained that painting cannot depict the truth—it is a copy of reality (a shadow of the world of ideas) and is nothing but a craft, similar to shoemaking or iron casting. By the time of Leonardo painting had become a closer representation of the truth than painting was in Ancient ...

History of painting

The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old. They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting. However the earliest evidence of painting has been discovered in two rock-shelters in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. In the lowest layer of material at these sites there are used pieces of ochre estimated to be 60,000 years old. Archaeologists have also found a fragment of rock painting preserved in a limestone rock-shelter in the Kimberley region ...

Canvas Art & Canvas Prints

As one of the original manufacturers and innovators of canvas art and contemporary canvas prints in the UK, Canvas Republic have several years experience in honing an exclusive range of high quality, stylish canvas prints. Our online canvas prints gallery is fully stocked with an exclusive and exciting range of unique artwork, available in a range of sizes and colours. All our artwork is designed in-house, so you won't find generic imagery here, just striking canvas prints based on the latest trends and styles in interior design. So whether you're looking for canvas prints that add a subtle finishing touch to your home, ...

Portrait Painting

Portrait painting is another form of painting, which is different from the other types of painting style. In other types of painting you can find the subject of landscape painting or abstract painting. In portrait painting the subject is based upon human being, pets, animals and inanimate objects. In portrait painting if you find any artist has painted him or her-self it is called self-portrait, but if an artist paint any other person it becomes portrait painting. One of the best examples of portrait painting is Leonardo da Vinci’s painting titled the Mona Lisa. It s portrait of women but ...

Landscape Painting

In every painting artist tries to portray different and unique angle of our surrounding factors with the help of different techniques. Landscape is one of the common subjects that every artist paints because it has huge range for painting. In landscape painting you can easily figure out that some artist try to capture the beauty of natural light or someone try to paint beautiful view of any city or a spectacular view from a different angle. Landscape is the subject that you can commonly find in paintings which is available in all type of medium. The landscape painting is the ...

Oil Painting

Art has different forms and each form of art has language of expression such as music, acting and painting all of them portray our social issues. Paintings begin with blank canvas but with the artist skills and talent a picture begins to form which portray his inner expression. Paintings are available in different mediums such as water paint or oil paint and many others. Both types of painting style are different although most of time people like oil paintings because the colors and whole painting look solid. If we compare what is the difference between water paints painting and oil ...