And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

The dress in the painting is a bright red, with rhinestones forming a spray on the right side.

That is why our creative people give their time to literature, not to painting or sculpture ''.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

In we're painting at our garage strong stress on at indicates that the job being done is not real painting but simply an effort at painting.

Once again what has happened is an all-consuming confabulation of the incidentals, the accidents of painting.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

You have only to compare such painting with the work of, say, Sesshu, to realize that someone is using words and brushes carelessly.

A Tiepolo painting, however confabulated, is a universe of tensions in vast depths.

Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.

The `` projection '' time of painting and sculpture is highly subjective, varying from person to person and even varying for a given person on different occasions.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

The play's device is to explore society's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist's models who remain part of someone else's painting rather than just be themselves.

We hold safe little jobs illustrating tooth-paste ads or the salacious incidents in trivial novels, and most of our easel painting is nothing but picking the fluff out of the navel so it can be contemplated in greater purity.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism – a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

The artist's last known oil painting was dated 1776 ; his final Salon participation was in 1779, and featured several pastel studies.

A wall painting, which may depict the ancient Anatolian city of Çatalhöyük ( previously known as Catal Huyuk or Çatal Hüyük ), has been dated to the late 7th millennium BCE.

Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan " House of the Admiral " wall painting from c. 1600 BCE, showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period ( 14th12th centuries BCE ).

It was one of the first agencies in the U. S. to implement the painting of centerlines on highways statewide ( thanks to June McCarroll ); the first to build a freeway west of the Mississippi ( the Pasadena Freeway ); the first to build a four-level stack interchange ; the first to develop and deploy nonreflective raised pavement markers, better known as Botts ' dots ; and one of the first to implement dedicated freeway-to-freeway connector ramps for high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

The painting was later destroyed by Le Peletier's royalist daughter, and is known by only a drawing, an engraving, and contemporary accounts.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the " golden age " of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation .".

* Quentin Matsys produced the earliest known portraits of Erasmus, including an oil painting in 1517 and a medallion in 1519.

An E. H. Shepard painting of Winnie the Pooh is the only known oil painting of the famous teddy bear.

When his wife Josefa died in 1812, he was mentally and emotionally processing the war by painting The Charge of the Mamelukes and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of prints later known as The Disasters of War ( Los desastres de la guerra ).

His best known painting is Family Reunion of 1867 – 1868 ( Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

The oath of King Ferdinand, known as the " Catholic Monarch " on June 30, 1476 is depicted in a painting by Francisco de Mendieta popularly known as El besamanos (" The Royal audience ").

In 1887, Peano married Carola Crosio, the daughter of the Turin-based painter Luigi Crosio, known for painting the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna.

The process is known as Reverse painting on glass.

The painting is known as Pindar and Ictinus and is exhibited at the National Gallery, London.

Impressionism emerged in France at the same time that a number of other painters, including the Italian artists known as the Macchiaioli, and Winslow Homer in the United States, were also exploring plein-air painting.

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting.

A useful technique is to rub a very thin film of Maroger medium over the area to be painted and paint into that — known as " painting into the couch.

Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art.

In 1810, Böttiger with Swiss painter Heinrich Meyer released a monograph on the painting in the Vatican known as the " Aldobrandini marriage ".