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.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

Other new artistic currents including the one of M ' hamed Issiakhem, Mohammed Khadda and Bachir Yelles, appeared on the scene of Algerian painting, abandoning figurative classical painting to find new pictorial ways, in order to adapt Algerian paintings to the new realities of the country through its struggle and its aspirations.

19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

Gu Kaizhi has left three surviving books on the theory of painting.

In Italy, he returned to painting, at first producing a series of works executed in tempera on linen.

This detail from Salvator Mundi, an unfinished oil painting on wood, reveals Dürer's highly detailed preparatory drawing.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Examples of painting on stone, opaque and transparent.

This new style was focused on changing the direction of light in the painting.

Cuyp ’ s pupils and assistants often worked on paintings in his studio, and so most of the work of a painting could be done without Cuyp ever touching the canvas, but merely approving its finality.

At a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects of choice were viewed as minor categories.

It was Pissarro ’ s intention during this period to help “ educate the public ” by painting people at work or at home in realistic settings, without idealizing their lives.

Warren Roberts, among others, has pointed out the contrast between David's " public style " of painting, as shown in his history paintings, and his " private style ", as shown in his portraits.

Provisions of gang injunctions include things such as restricting the possession of marker pens, spray paint cans, or other sharp objects capable of defacing private or public property ; spray painting, or marking with marker pens, scratching, applying stickers or otherwise applying graffiti on any public or private property, including but not limited to the street, alley, residences, block walls and fences, vehicles and / or any other real or personal property.

Although silk was a somewhat expensive medium to paint upon in the past, the invention of paper during the 1st century AD by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun provided not only a cheap and widespread medium for writing, but also a cheap and widespread medium for painting ( making it more accessible to the public ).

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

In 1857, he submitted the painting The Gleaners to the Salon to an unenthusiastic, even hostile, public.

Displayed to the public for the first time in 1865, the painting changed hands several times, increasing only modestly in value, since some considered the artist's political sympathies suspect.

Initiated by the works of mural artists like Graham Rust or Rainer Maria Latzke in the 1980s, trompe-l ' oeil painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in Europe.

The Rules state: " The Contest is open to those who have not previously published more than three black-and-white story illustrations, or more than one process-color painting, in media distributed nationally to the general public, such as magazines or books sold at newsstands, or books sold in stores merchandising to the general public.

In the Armory show Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( 1912 ) and Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, and other cubist painters contributed examples of their cubist works.

French Orientalist painting was transformed by Napoleon's ultimately unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798-1801, which stimulated great public interest in Egyptology, and was also recorded in subsequent years by Napoleon's court painters, especially Baron Gros, although the Middle Eastern campaign was not one on which he accompanied the army.

Vesākha is also a time for great joy and happiness, expressed not by pandering to one ’ s appetites but by concentrating on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes from the life of the Buddha for public dissemination.

Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, " Addams's persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers ... was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye ," noting that one outré publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, " but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.

The parties agreed that the painting would remain on loan to the National Gallery of Art for the benefit of the American public for the near future.

In 2005, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's " greatest painting " in a public poll organised by the BBC.

Mazza stripped off Bellotti's work then largely repainted the painting ; he had redone all but three faces when he was halted due to public outrage.

Later the painting was purchased by the French government, the first Whistler work in a public collection, and is now housed in the Musée d ' Orsay in Paris.

In public recognition of its status and popularity, the United States issued a postage stamp in 1934 featuring an adaptation of the painting.

The second quality had less public patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, which prized subjects worthy of " high painting ," typically religious or mythic scenes.

But if Eakins hoped to impress his home town with the picture, he was to be disappointed ; public reaction to the painting of a realistic surgical incision and the resultant blood was ambivalent at best, and it was finally purchased by the college for the unimpressive sum of $ 200.

The painting sparked public notoriety and stirred up controversy and has remained controversial, even to this day.

The economic and political decline of Siena by the 16th century, and its eventual subjugation by Florence, largely checked the development of Sienese painting, although it also meant that a good proportion of Sienese works in churches and public buildings were not discarded or destroyed by new paintings or rebuilding.