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1.       «Acrylic Paint is a great medium for beginning painters because it is water-soluble, dries quickly, and is versatile. It is also very forgiving. If you are not happy with an area you've painted, you can let it dry and paint right over it in a matter of minutes. Because acrylic is a plastic polymer you can paint on any surface as long as it doesn't contain wax or oil. Unlike oils, acrylics can be used without any toxic solvents and can be cleaned up easily with just soap and water»

2.       «Minimalism is an extreme movement within abstract art that developed in the mid-1960s. It focused on the basic elements of art at their most simple: colour (such as black and white), form (the line and the square, for example), and material (raw canvas, bare metal or stone). The paintings of Agnes Martin, Frank Stella and Alan Charlton are good examples

3.       bas-relief

4.       diorama

5.       Empire style

6.       composition

7.       Baroque

8.       Expressionism

9.       Abstract expressionism

10.   Modern Art

11.   Fauvism

12.   The Florentine School

13.   multilayer

14.   pastel «

15.   underpainting

16.   varnishing

17.   Albrecht Dürer

18.   Vincent van Gogh

19.   Thomas Gainsborough

20.   Kazimir Malevich

21.   «Many people feel intimidated working with oils because of the nature of the paint

22.   «This oil on canvas painting depicts a small pond during drizzling rain»

23.   «Modern art represents an evolving set of ideas among a number of painters, sculptors, writers, and performers who - both individually and collectively - sought new artistic approaches to art making»

24.   «Art critic G.A. Stevens said primitive art is the most pure, most sincere form of art there can be»

25.   «This post is an example of a beautiful art form that can inspire all of us...»

26.   «Artwork: What is the most underrated piece of art, and why?»

27.   «The popular notion that artists produce their best work when miserable is as old as Aristotle, who mused that "all men who have attained excellence in philosophy, in poetry, in art and in politics... had a melancholic habitus. While history is rich with troubled creators from Vincent van Gogh to Morrissey, research suggests that tortured artists produce their best work when they are happy»

28.   Although talented painters and numerous art movements were springing up across Germany, Russia and Switzerland, Paris was still the centre of modern visual art, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nearly all important Western artists visited Paris, worked there, or were aware of its fashions in composition and painting technique. Landscape continued to develop as a genre in Europe, but all painters were strongly affected by the new political as well as artistic climate of change, and reacted in different ways»

29.   «Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian painter whose completely new style ushered in the age of Baroque art. His art was as unique as his personality. Rather than painting in a refined, idealized way, Caravaggio painted people as he saw them: dirty fingernails, calloused feet, wrinkles and all. Nowhere was this more controversial than in his religious works, where holy characters were shown as real people who might walk beside you on the street»

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