Some articles on painting, paintings:
... Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing, that birds flew down from the sky to peck at the painted grapes ... In order to judge his rival Parrhasius's painting, Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back a pair of very tattered curtains in his study ... When Zeuxis tried, he was unable to do so as the curtains were Parrhasius's painting, making Parrhasius the winner ...
... In the late 1930s and early 1940s Kline worked figuratively, painting landscapes and cityscapes in addition to commissioned portraits and murals ... Kline's best known abstract expressionist paintings, however, are in black and white ... Kline re-introduced color into his paintings around 1955, though he used color more consistently after 1959 ...
... Fourteen of Rothko's paintings are displayed in the chapel ... walls display triptychs, while the other five walls display single paintings ... Beginning in 1964, Rothko began painting a series of black paintings, which incorporated other dark hues and texture effects ...
... Hudson River School paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century discovery, exploration, and settlement ... The paintings also depict the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature coexist peacefully ... Several protagonists have been members of the Düsseldorf school of painting ...
... Cave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in France that been suggested to depict sprinting and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 17,300 ... Cave paintings in the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia dating back to Neolithic age of 7000 BC show a wrestling match surrounded by crowds ... Prehistoric cave paintings have also been found in Japan depicting a sport similar to sumo wrestling ...
Famous quotes containing the word paintings:
“Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards.... Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this—as in other ways—they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)