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gestural painting gestural painting
gestural painting. The application of paint with expansive gestures so that the sweep of the artist's arm is deliberately emphasized. The term carries an implication not only that a picture is the record of the artist's action in the process of painting it, but that the recorded actions express the... Read more
red-figure vase painting red-figure vase painting
red-figure vase painting. One of the two major divisions of Greek vase 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 the pottery. Details of the figure could thus be added with a brush rather... Read more
black-figure vase painting black-figure vase painting
black-figure vase painting. Technique of vase painting, originating in Corinth in the 7th century bc, in which figures were painted in black silhouette on the light red clay background. Details were added by incising through the black pigment or sometimes by overpainting in red or white. The... Read more
staffage staffage
staffage. Term applied to small figures and animals in a painting that are not essential to the subject but are used to animate the composition. Landscape painters, notably in 17th-century Flanders and Holland, often employed other artists to paint the staffage in their work (see, for example,... Read more
Giovanni Paolo Pannini 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
Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo , 1907-54, Mexican painter, b. Coyoacán. As a result of an accident at age 15, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five... Read more
Hans Multscher 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
New Image Painting New Image Painting
New Image Painting (or New Image Art). A vague term applied since the late 1970s to the work of certain avant-garde artists who work in a strident figurative style, often with cartoon-like imagery and abrasive handling owing something to Neo-Expressionism. It was given currency by an exhibition... Read more
encarnado encarnado
encarnado (Spanish: ‘flesh-coloured’). Term applied in Spanish art to the painting of the flesh parts of wooden sculptures in more or less naturalistic colours. The term ‘estofado’ (literally ‘quilted’) is applied to the painting of draperies. In the 16th... Read more
Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez
Hayez, Francesco (b Venice, 11 Feb. 1791; d Milan, 12 Dec. 1882). Italian painter, active mainly in Milan. Hayez was the most important figure in the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in Italian painting, but his Romantic leanings come out mainly in subject matter rather than in... Read more

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