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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast urban settings. In his paintings of ruins (e.g., Roman ... Read more
Hans Multscher
Hans Multscher , c.1400-1467, outstanding German sculptor and painter of the Swabian school of Ulm. Early in life he traveled to the Netherlands and Burgundy. Probably influenced by the work of Claus Sluter, he developed a powerfully realistic figural style in both painting and sculpture. About 1427... Read more
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , 1699-1779, French painter. He was a major figure of 18th-century painting. While the Académie royale still advocated history painting as the noblest form of art, Chardin painted still lifes and domestic interiors. His ability to evoke textures was extraor... Read more
Edwin Walter Dickinson
Edwin Walter Dickinson 1891-1978, American painter, b. Seneca Falls, N.Y. He studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase , and spent most of his life on Cape Cod. Working during the modernist era, Dickinson went his own way with paintings in several styles and genres. The dark, dreamlike, ... Read more
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz , 1938-, German artist, b. Deutschbaselitz, Germany, as Hans-Georg Dern. A leading figure in the neoexpressionist movement (see neoexpressionism ), he studied painting (1956-57) in East Berlin and moved to West Berlin in 1957. Since his first one-man exhibition (1961), he has become ... Read more
Kano
Kano , family or school of Japanese painters. Kano Masanobu, c.1434-c.1530, the forerunner of the school, was attached to the shogun Yoshimasa's court. He painted landscapes, birds, and figure pieces, chiefly in ink with occasional touches of pale tints. His work is Japanese in spirit, reflecting ... Read more
Karel Dujardin
Karel Dujardin , 1622-78, Dutch painter and etcher. He studied with Berchem and in Italy. Dujardin was particularly successful in painting landscapes with figures and animals, and he made some 51 fine etchings of similar subjects. His Charlatans and Cavalry (both: Louvre) are characteristic work... Read more
John Greenwood
John Greenwood 1727-92, American artist, b. Boston, Mass. An engraver and painter, Greenwood executed some of the first genre paintings in America. He is also noted for his satirical works peopled with small, energetic figures reminiscent of Hogarth's. ... Read more
limner
limner , the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well... Read more
Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet , 1875-1947, French painter. In 1894 he met Matisse and later became associated with fauvism . His exuberantly colored figure studies are clearly fauvist. Marquet was a gifted draftsman. Many of his later landscapes and port scenes, painted with great clarity, are in American museums... Read more

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painting
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...cent.) agreed that paintings in church would assist...understanding of Christianity. Painting was done on manuscripts...attempt to make the figures proportional or lifelike...brought a crisis to painting in Britain with protestants...in many examples of painting, sculpture, and ...
Painting
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World PAINTING PAINTING. Renaissance artists broke decisively...to nature as their guide in the art of painting. Through observation and imitation...sophistication of artists in animating figures through the use of gesture and expression...
Automatic Drawing and Painting
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...and form itself into the figure of a child. Nobody else saw...executed in two hours an oil painting upside-down. There are...developed his powers of painting under the effect of the suggestion...concentrating on a name. His paintings have considerable artistic...Marjan Gruzewski, the Polish ...
rock carvings and paintings
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Western Europe, the rock figures attributed to the San of S Africa, and the Tassili cliff paintings discovered in the central...intaglio technique. The paintings, made with charcoal and...compositions. Engraving and painting techniques were sometimes...Tasmanian Rock Carvings and Paintings ...
George de La Tour
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his earliest signed painting, The Cheat (1625...generalize. The four figures are painted thinly...all of La Tour's paintings after this early date...of light within the painting. Sometimes the source...concealed by a hand, a figure, or an object; sometimes...construction of the ...
George Caleb Bingham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...that he took up genre painting in earnest. Among...earliest and finest genre paintings is Fur Traders Descending...drawings of these 2 figures as well as studies...Order No. 11, a painting provoked by the injustice...vitality of his earlier figure paintings. Bingham spent ...
Bacon, Francis
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...powerful and original figure painters in the twentieth...exclusively. Bacon began oil painting in 1929. The few early paintings that survive (he destroyed...subject matter of his paintings. One of the great...representatives of the figure-painting tradition. During...of many of ...
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli; 1488/1490–1576)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Titian's early paintings (for example...improvising approach to painting, exploiting the...Titian's early paintings are increasingly...clear placement of figures in space, and...recall the idealized figure types of Michelangelo...of Ferrara. The paintings were conceived...nude or ...
Francis Bacon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...powerful and original figure painters in contemporary...interior decorating for painting, in which he was self...taught. The few early paintings that survive (he destroyed...the well-recognized paintings of the old masters...instance, a series of paintings inspired by the portrait...and ...
Mi Fei
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...died in 1079, was also a key figure through his art and his influence...stimulation in it. Mi's Figure Painting Mi said that he did not begin...that he had tried landscape painting slightly earlier. At the...neglected first master of figure painting, Ku K'ai-chih. Mi Fei...written a ...

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black-figure vase painting
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists black-figure vase painting Technique of vase painting...the 7th century bc, in which figures were painted in black silhouette...then began to give way to red-figure painting, although black-figure vases continued to be produced...
red-figure vase painting
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists red-figure vase painting. One of the two major divisions...painting, the other being Black-figure . In the red-figure technique, the background was painted black, leaving the figures in the unpainted red colour of...
Genre Painting
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...America's greatest genre paintings were executed by Winslow...native Philadelphia. His paintings of rowers on the city's...contemporary life in genre paintings such as Purple and Rose...common lot. Because genre painting is inherently figurative...sunbathing. His simplified figures painted ...
history painting
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists history painting. A term applied to pictures showing several figures involved in momentous or morally...heading ‘history painting’, whereas scenes...skilful arrangement of numerous figures with convincing gestures and...
mural painting
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture mural painting. Painted decoration applied...devices, landscapes, and figures, etc. were common in Roman...e.g. Pompeii. Wall-paintings enlivened medieval churches...in didactic and historical painting closely associated with Revivalist...London). For much mural painting the technique of ...
Metaphysical Painting
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Metaphysical Painting. A style of painting invented by de Chirico in about...hospital in Ferrara. Metaphysical Painting started with no inaugural programme...dummies and statues in place of human figures, and partly by an incongruous juxtaposition...
academy figure
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists academy figure A careful painting or drawing (usually about half life-size) from the nude human figure made as an exercise, typically in an art school or academy. The figure is usually depicted in a heroic pose...
Abstract Expressionism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...to describe certain paintings by Kandinsky , and...of modern American painting it was first used by...Among the secondary figures were William Baziotes...glorification of the act of painting itself; the conviction that abstract painting could convey significant...exhibited his drip ...
Pollock, Jackson
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...the commanding figure of the Abstract...mythical or totemic figures as archetypes of...style of Action Painting for which he is...sometimes through) his paintings, creating a novel...dynamism of his painting…he...but it is on the paintings of these five years...ravishingly ...
Bacon, Francis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...was a puritanical figure and sent his son away...watercolours in 1926 and painting oils two or three years...same year one of his paintings was reproduced in Herbert...1930s virtually gave up painting for several years...He returned to painting seriously in the Second...his Three Studies ...

Thesaurus entries related to "Figure painting"

image
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...representation, resemblance, effigy, figure, figurine, doll, statue, statuette...idol, icon, fetish, graven image, painting, picture, portrait.   2. the...the use of images in poetry synonyms : figure of speech, conceit, figurative expression...
representation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...rendition.   2. representations of the human form synonyms : likeness, painting, drawing, picture, illustration, sketch, image, model, figure, figurine, statue, statuette.   3. formal making representations to the...
form
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...xA0; 2. of a well-built form synonyms : body, physique, figure, shape, build, frame, anatomy, silhouette, contour...genus, genre, stamp.   5. admire the form of the painting | his literary work lacks form synonyms : structure, framework...
metaphor
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus metaphor • noun  the profusion of metaphors in her everyday speech has gotten pretty tiresome synonyms : figure of speech, image, trope, analogy, comparison, symbol, word painting/picture.

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Drawing on two culture scenes; Terry Grimley meets artist Shanti Panchal, whose robust figure paintings are delicately poised between East and West.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/20/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...s first experiments in painting consisted of decorating the...atmosphere, Panchal's figure compositions, with their simplified, firmly drawn figures and flat, glowing colour...influenced by Indian miniature painting - the flatness and vibrant...period, and Buddhist cave paintings of the ...
In a class by himself The exemplary retrospective of Lucian Freud at Tate Britain might have been expected to establish his work in the great tradition of Western figure painting. In fact, says TOM LUBBOCK, it reveals him as an artist in deliberate retreat from it
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/21/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...it isn't. A very large painting from 1996, of a monumentally...traditional ambition of human figure painting to carry large, universal...Dissonance - because these paintings are always hinting at categories...her life. But Freud's figures are just there. Of course...just a place where the ...
It figures; Paintings show 'Makers Making' in Divine Word exhibit
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/20/2006; 465 words ; ...figures in Peter Tong Xiao's painting exhibit, "Makers Making," are men and women busily painting each other, armed with brushes...statement, Xiao said the paintings are from an ongoing series. "The figures was my entry into art and...commentary with his work. The figure itself is of ...
Philemona Williamson at June Kelly.(figure painting)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...ample, 4-by-5-foot paintings small groups of adolescent figures, mainly girls, many of them...Bittersweet is occupied by four figures dressed in colorful garments...the extended leg of a second figure, who has the tail of a mermaid. That figure's extended leg reaches up...
The way of all flesh. (figure painting, Ivan Albright, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...obsessively detailed, relentlessly morbid paintings. Ivan Albright (1897-1983) is certainly...multitextured wrinkles, his gnarly, pockmarked figures seem to vibrate -- even implode...Western art history, evoking only certain paintings of the Neue Sachlichkeit and the most...
Large Figure Mural Paintings Discovered in China
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/12/2001; 330 words ; ...recently announced that a set of figure mural paintings of Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644...the first time such large figure mural paintings have been...frescos vividly portray over 300 figures each with different appearances...of the then society. The figures are set off by chains of ...
`Weeping' figures, paintings not unique in Christianity
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/14/1986; ; 700+ words ; "Weeping" statues, paintings and icons dot the map of Christendom. Moisture apparently oozing from an icon of the Virgin Mary at St. Nicholas Albanian...that if oil paint is used very thickly, it's not unusual that oil does drip out later. It takes 150 years for an oil painting to harden thoroughly." Neither ...
GO FIGURE.(figure painting)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...students get the idea that painting is simply drawing with a different...transferring their sketch to the painting surface and proceeding with...Once the abstractly suggested figures were loosely blocked in...lend themselves to drawing, painting and even printmaking. Each...look to the surface and ...
Yunessi.(originals)(Yunessi offers the "Caught in a Dream, Single Figure" painting)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Art Business News; 5/1/2008; 549 words ; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Artist YUNESSI announces the release of "Caught in a dream, Single figure" an original oil on canvas, sized at 30 x 40 inches. For pricing and more information, call 949-364-2016; e-mail yunessi@yahoo.com.
Girl power; visual arts Euryl Stevens produces images of figures combining painting, textiles and stitch work. Her latest collection, as Julie Richards discovers, also features strong female characters.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 2/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...and incorporate into their paintings, several non-traditional...needlework, collage and acrylic painting in abstract paintings, and Judy Chicago's celebrated...pieces that combine textiles, painting and stitch work. Infused...being chosen as the central figure of the painting. In ...