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Painting is one of the oldest art forms, involving the use of a brush to apply paint or other types of medium to a surface, be it paper, wood, or canvas. For the best of us, the answer to what’s art is “painting,” an art form that has been around since time immemorial.

Paintings are found across practically every culture, and they are the core visual record of our experiences and the world around us. And, in saying so, paintings have a history of remarkable complexity.

Significant milestones in the world of paintings include illusionism, which was emphasized in traditional western art; the parity between abstract and figures in painting; the emergence of oil painting, and the important historical movements in the art sphere, such as abstract expressionism, cubism, impressionism, the baroque, and the renaissance.

What does the crown in Basquiat’s paintings mean?

Paintings / 10 minutes of reading
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. He was one of the most influential American artists and focused on “suggestive dichotomies,” including integration versus segregation, wealth versus poverty, and inner versus outer experience. He is considered to be the founder of the neo-expressionism movement. Crown Since introducing the crown symbol

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How did Banksy’s Girl with Balloon end up in a shredder?

Murals, Paintings, Street Art / 10 minutes of reading
Banksy, according to some sources, was born in 1974 in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is one of the world’s most secretive artists. Most of his fans don’t know how he looks likes. Over the years, Banksy has won over many hearts with his humorous and thought-provoking stencil works, which would appear in public spaces instantly

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René Magritte’s dreamlike painting Personal Values – The meaning behind

Paintings / 4 minutes of reading
Although inspired heavily by surrealism, René Magritte’s work stands out easily from other well-known surrealist painters such as Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. Additionally, unlike other surrealist painters, Magritte’s work was not based on characters and scenes from the painters’ subconscious. Rather, Magritte focused on painting day to day objects in absurd and illogical combinations.

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Yayoi Kusama & Pumpkins – What you should know

Installations, Paintings, Sculptures / 8 minutes of reading
A life without art would be soundless, tasteless, and shapeless; essentially, an abyss. A life without art would be dull because art is beneath the structure of everything and anything that matters. No one recognizes its fundamental need to society and audiences more than artist Yayoi Kusama does. The global success of Kusama Yayoi Kusama

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Zeng Fanzhi’s Last supper – One of China’s most expensive paintings

Paintings / 4 minutes of reading
Zeng Fanzhi’s The Last Supper is one of the most noteworthy Asian contemporary pieces of art. Throughout his career, Zeng Fanzhi has been working to make Chinese art more popular. His artwork is known for offering an honest critique of the contemporary Chinese lifestyle while creating a much-needed dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies. His

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David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures broke an important record

Paintings / 5 minutes of reading
David Hockney’s Roosevelt Hotel pool mural David Hockney is one of Britain’s most influential artists of the 20th century. Hockney is well known in other parts of the world as well, thanks to his internationally recognized works. For instance, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which has long been the meeting spot for the stars and celebrities

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Fernando Botero’s Mona Lisa – Everything you should know

Paintings / 3 minutes of reading
At the beginning of the late 1950s, an artist known as Fernando Botero emerged and started transforming painting from famous artists from Europe such as those of Peter Rueben and inflating them in an almost comical manner. Because he would often use rotund and overweight figures, his sculptures have always been accompanied by an air

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What makes Cy Twombly’s Louvre ceiling painting so special?

Murals, Paintings / 6 minutes of reading
If you ever find yourself in Paris, Cy Twombly’s mural in Louvre is well worth visiting. Cy Twombly was remarkable in every way, having created a lasting legacy with his works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photography. He was one of the key figures in 20th-century art. In his works, he combined painting and drawing

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Pablo Picasso’s Old Guitarist – Everything you need to know

Paintings / 8 minutes of reading
Pablo Picasso was one of the foremost and persuasive artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. Primarily associated with pioneering a movement known as Cubism, he also made major contributions to surrealism, symbolism and a range of other classical styles that persisted during the 1920s. Unlike many other painters of his time, Picasso

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Crying Girl – Everything you should know

Paintings / 3 minutes of reading
Crying Girl is a painting by Roy Lichtenstein that was created first in 1963 as an offset lithograph on lightweight, off-white woven paper and a second version in 1964 as porcelain enamel on steel. The 46-square-inch painting depicts a girl with tears falling from her eyes. The painting represents the female identity in the 1950s

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Visitor in front of work by Chung Sang-Hwa at exhibition Korean Abstract Art – Kim Whanki and Dansaekhwa, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, 2018-2019 feat

Dansaekhwa: Korean monochrome painting: Everything you need to know

Paintings, Sculptures / 18 minutes of reading
Dansaekhwa is an art movement born in South Korea in the 1970s. The pioneers of Dansaekhwa are born between 1913 and 1936 and avoided any reference to Western realism in their works, creating primarily monochrome and minimalist paintings. Dansaekhwa or Tansaekhwa is a term used to refer to a loose grouping of paintings that originated

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Do Yue Minjun’s self portraits make you laugh?

Paintings / 3 minutes of reading
Yue Minjun’s style is easily be recognized. His self-portrait oil paintings depict himself in vivid colors while grinning with his mouth gaping. An oxymoron of sorts, the self-portraits evoke feelings of sympathy as well as humor. The depictions of himself in various poses laughing draw numerous diverse interpretations. However, the general consensus is that while

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