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Types of Art Paintings

Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Related Tags: gogh | picasso | claude | pablo | monet
 

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History

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    Human beings have been painting well before recorded history. An example of an early painting was found in a cave in Chauvet Cave, in Vallon-Pont-dArc, Ardeche, France, which has been dated between 30,000 B.C. and 28,000 B.C.

Famous Painters and Their Styles

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    Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso are famous painting innovators. Van Gogh and Claude Monet were Impressionists, and Pablo Picasso was an Abstract Cubist.

Medium

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    Artists express their paintings using a variety of media. The three most popular media are oil, acrylic and watercolor.

Style

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    Artists paint in a variety different styles. These styles range from life-like Photo Realism to unidentifiable lines, dots and color called Abstract Expressionism.

Purpose

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    Each painting is an expression of an idea, emotion or situation from the artist's point of view. Art paintings offer viewers a glimpse of the artists' time period and the way people viewed and reacted to the world around them.

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