from the history of painting the oldest known

from the history of painting the oldest known paintings are at the grotte chauvet in frence, claimed by some historians to be about 32, 000 years old. they are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting. Next

Next Western painting In Western cultures oil painting and watercolor painting have rich and complex traditions in style and subject matter.

Eastern culture In the East, ink and color ink historically predominated the choice of media with equally rich and complex traditions. Next

The dark times of painting The invention of photography had a major impact on painting. For a number of reasons people forgot about hand-made pictures…. but not for long… Next

PABLO PICASSO Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20 th century. Picasso’s work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901– 1904), the Rose Period (1905– 1907), the African -influenced Period(1908– 1909), Analytic Cubism (1909– 1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912– 1919). In 1939– 40 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, under its director Alfred Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, held a major and highly successful retrospective of his principal works up until that time. This exhibition lionized the artist, brought into full public view in America the scope of his artistry, and resulted in a reinterpretation of his work by contemporary art historians and scholars. [40] Next

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, sci entist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". [1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. [ Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan Leonardo is revered[2] for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, [5] the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, [nb 3] but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strengthof wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. [nb 4] He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science. Next

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a farreaching influence on 20 th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be selfinflicted. His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. Van Gogh loved art from an early age. He began to draw as a child, and he continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during his last two years. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2, 000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1, 100 drawings and sketches. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes of flowers, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. Next

Art is immortal Doesn’t matters how much time can be passed. . society will always remember immortal painters and they immortal pictures