The subject matter of Peto's paintings consisted of the most ordinary of things: pistols, horseshoes, bits of paper, keys, books, and the like.

Many of Peto's paintings reinterpret themes Harnett had painted earlier, but Peto's compositions are less formal and his objects are typically rustier, more worn, less expensive looking.

Harnett's objects show signs of use but are well preserved, while Peto's more humble objects are nearly used up.

It is poles away from Harnett's sumptuosity, careful balances, and well-modeled volumes, and is equally far from Peto's sensitivity in matters of tone and hue.

Peto's mature works have an opaque and powdery texture which is often compared to Chardin.

Peto's 1890 painting shows the violin hanging askew, as well as chipped and worn, with one string broken.

Peto's son, Harold Peto, became a noted garden-designer, but it is not known whether he was influenced by the gardens of Somerlyton.

Patron Lemoine Pierce said of Alston's work: " Never thought of as an innovative artist, Alston generally ignored popular art trends and violated many mainstream art conventions ; he produced abstract and figurative paintings often simultaneously, refusing to be stylistically consistent, and during his 40-year career he worked prolifically and unapologetically in both commercial and fine art.

The term covers large paintings in oil on canvas or fresco produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition.

Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo " taught him a great deal about painting ", his work is generally considered to be of less artistic merit than others among Leonardo's pupils, such as Marco d ' Oggione and Boltraffio.

The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899 – 1901 period ( i. e. just prior to the Blue Period ) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.

One of the two most distinctive features of the crown was a large fan-like ornament generally described as a representation of seven of the spearhead of the traditional Malagasy warrior's spear joined together at the base, but in photographs and paintings it appear to look more like seven large feathers.

His paintings included dark, moody, expressionist interiors, as well as urban scenes, and were generally well accepted among critics and peers.

Another important early manifestation of what came to be abstract expressionism is the work of American Northwest artist Mark Tobey, especially his " white writing " canvases, which, though generally not large in scale, anticipate the " all-over " look of Pollock's drip paintings.

Carracci's art also had a less formal side that comes out in his caricatures ( he is generally credited with inventing the form ) and in his early genre paintings, which are remarkable for their lively observation and free handling and his painting of The Beaneater.

Like his fellow Nazarenes he was more draughtsman than painter, and though his sense of colour was stronger than that of Overbeck or Cornelius, his works are generally more of the nature of coloured cartoons than of paintings in the modern sense.

Today, his large paintings routinely sell for more than $ 1 million, and his self-portraits generally command the highest prices.

After all, humans are generally quite talented in their freehand movements ; the drawings, paintings, and sculptures of artists such as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, and of countless other talented people, show that human freehand toolpath has great potential.

However the paintings now attributed to him are generally accepted, despite a tendency in the 19th century to attribute his work to others.

The young nation's artists generally emulated the style of British art, which they knew through prints and the paintings of English-trained immigrants such as John Smibert ( 1688 – 1751 ) and John Wollaston ( active 1742 – 75 ).

Wang Wei is generally credited as the painter who applied color to existing ink wash paintings.

Gallo is known for his outspoken views and generally sarcastic nature, once stating: " I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings ; and I did it out of spite.

The generally small scale of these artists ' paintings was appropriate for their display in the homes of middle class purchasers.

However, although two species are generally listed, the question whether they actually did constitute separate species is probably unresolvable as only a single specimen of it exists today, apart from some contemporary paintings.

Francis spent some time in Paris executing entirely monochromatic works, but his mature pieces are generally large oil paintings with splashed or splattered areas of bright contrasting color, with areas of white canvas left to show through.

By the end of the century, when the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, embarked on his quest to secure as many Dürer paintings as possible, the Isenheim Altarpiece was already generally believed to be a Dürer.

With the superior understanding of perspective drawing achieved in the Renaissance, Italian painters of the late Quattrocento such as Andrea Mantegna ( 1431 – 1506 ) and Melozzo da Forlì ( 1438 – 1494 ), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings, generally in fresco, that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening in order to give the impression of greater space to the viewer below.

Although the technique of collage is generally associated with painting, the use of collage in music by Biber, Mozart, Mahler, and Ives actually predates the use of collage in painting by artists like Picasso and Braque, who are generally credited with creating the first collage paintings around 1912.

The deliberate vulgarity of these paintings contrast with the French painter Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame series of 1950, in which iconic female / goddess imagery was created with a topography of earth colours, and are generally perceived as less provocative.

Works generally attributed to Liáng Kǎi: painting of the poet Li Bai, the Drunken Celestial ( aka A Sage ), The Sixth Patriarch Cutting Bamboo, and in a more academic style, a series called the Eight Eminent Monks paintings.

Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).

The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >

He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.

History paintings were traditionally regarded as the highest form of Western painting, occupying the most prestigious place in the hierarchy of genres, and considered the equivalent to the epic in literature.

* During the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion, known as the Beeldenstorm in the Netherlands, Protestants destroyed traditional ( by then considered Catholic ) imagery in churches, including paintings, sculptures and other representations.

Without the possibility of studying anatomy or drawing from life ( it was considered unacceptable for a lady to view nudes ), she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for large-scale religious or history paintings.

There he considered a variety of paintings in art books.

The cave paintings and petroglyphs of prehistoric peoples can be considered precursors of writing, but are not considered writing because they did not represent language directly.

The album is considered the earliest of its kind and consists of 54 paintings by Tosa Mitsunobu and 54 sheets of calligraphy on shikishi paper in five colors, written by master calligraphers.

In India Nandalal Bose, whose paintings are considered artistic treasures, illustrated books for children from the late 1800s into the 1900s.

It is considered one of the best of Velázquez's paintings.

For the most part, foreign influences on Matsys are inferred from his paintings and are considered to be a large portion of the artist's training during the 16th century.

Mucha spent many years working on what he considered his life's fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic ( Slovanská epopej ), a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928.

Commissions for history paintings were still considered more prestigious, but were much harder to get.

The Weehawken Sequence, an early 20th century series of approximately 100 oil sketches by local artist John Marin, who worked in the city, is considered is considered among, if not the first, abstract paintings done by an American artist.

Artworks are considered digital painting when created in similar fashion to non-digital paintings but using software on a computer platform and digitally outputting the resulting image as painted on canvas.

In view of the near-total loss of Greek and Roman paintings, mummy portraits are today considered to be among the very rare examples of ancient art that can be seen to reflect " Great paintings " and especially Roman portrait painting.

Still was also considered one of the foremost Color Field painters-his non-figurative paintings are non-objective, and largely concerned with juxtaposing different colors and surfaces in a variety of formations.