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Duchamp, Marcel
One phial broke, and Duchamp had another specially sent to New York, containing genuine Paris air. Preferring a young and growing civilization to those that ...
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Impressionism - Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Degas ...
From April 15th to May 15th, 1874, a group of independent young French painters who had formed a société anonyme that included Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, ...
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20th century American artists made two profoundly important ...
It was a different group of American painters that discovered in European ... Only a decade later a sizeable group of young American artists studying in ...
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Painting Processes: Tempera
The gesso was applied in several coats. The earlier ones were what Cennini calls gesso grosso (thick gesso), which consisted of plaster of Paris mixed with ...
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Painting Processes: Tempera
In fresco, though a ground is prepared for applying the paint layer, ... The gesso ground was finished with a layer or layers of gesso sottile (thin gesso), ...
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Picasso - Sculpture
This form is the nucleus of a whole series of Picasso's sculptures dating ... Here Picasso is obviously interested less in the round form of the head than ...
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Sassanian Architecture, Persian - Moslem Architecture
The Sassanian empire, which during the four centuries from 226 to 641 AD had withstood Rome and extended its own sway almost to India, left on Persian soil ...
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Paul Klee - Art of Klee
To explain art--that, for Klee, meant an exercise in self-analysis. ... Abstract art does not mean being anti-nature ... Paul Klee · Artistic Creation ...
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Manguin, Henri Charles
French painter; born in Paris; died at Saint-Tropez. Manguin's work can best be described as joyful painting: what it expresses is neither a burst of ...
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Texture: Definition, Dimensions
For the painter's consideration, there are two general kinds of textures. One is actual and the other simulated. An actual texture is one that possesses ...
