One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

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.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

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.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

The result was like that of a beautiful painting with some of the highlights touched up almost to the point of garishness.

It was the kind of work I was doing, the quality of the ambition it awoke in me, that kept me from painting.

However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as " putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas ", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.

In the United States, the leading Romantic movement was the Hudson River School of dramatic landscape painting.

No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

In painting, there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child ( 1526 ), Salvator Mundi ( 1526 ), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in background and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

Altdorfer was the pioneer painter of pure landscape, making them the subject of the painting, as well as compositions dominated by their landscape.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.

`` 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.

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 ; ;

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.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

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.

Only a proper, artist-grade acrylic gesso should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic ( however acrylic paint can be applied to raw canvas if so desired without any negative effect or chemical reaction as would be the case with oils ).

An undated painting of the British Water Witch built in 1831 is labeled OPIUM CLIPPER " WATER WITCH " so the term had at least passed into common usage during the time that this ship sailed.

Roman frescoes were done by the artist painting the artwork on the still damp plaster of the wall, so that the painting is part of the wall, actually colored plaster.

In this work, he argues against the tendency to take Horace's ut pictura poesis ( as painting, so poetry ) as prescriptive for literature.

China, Japan and Korea have a strong tradition in painting which is also highly attached to the art of calligraphy and printmaking ( so much that it is commonly seen as painting ).

The Impressionists relaxed the boundary between subject and background so that the effect of an Impressionist painting often resembles a snapshot, a part of a larger reality captured as if by chance.

Reynolds alluded to Keppel's trial in the painting by having him have his hand on his sword, reflecting the presiding officer's words at the court-martial: " In delivering to you your sword, I am to congratulate you on its being restored to you with so much honour ".

Dalí was so insistent on this fact that eventually an X-ray was done of the canvas, confirming his suspicions: the painting contains a painted-over geometric shape strikingly similar to a coffin.

It dries very fast so that he can paint on the same areas the very next day, which speeds up painting.

When finished, the painting was acclaimed as a masterpiece of design and characterisation, but it deteriorated rapidly, so that within a hundred years it was described by one viewer as " completely ruined ".

Vasari, who is generally thought to have known the painting only by repute, said that " the smile was so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human ; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original ".

Mariotto was a most restless person and carnal in the affairs of love and apt to the art of living, and, taking a dislike to the studies and brain-wracking necessary to painting, being also often stung by the tongues of other painters, as is their way, he resolved to give himself to a less laborious and more jovial profession, and so opened the most lovely hostelry outside the Porta San Gallo, and at the sign of the Dragon at the Ponte Vecchio a tavern and inn.

* Most types of masonry typically will not require painting and so can provide a structure with reduced life-cycle costs.

The big European powers saw the war of Greek independence, with its accounts of Turkish atrocities, in a romantic light ( see, for example, the 1824 painting Massacre of Chios by Eugène Delacroix ).

During the Depression, the picture was billed as a " million dollar " painting and was a big hit at the Chicago World's Fair.

Cher dubs her a " Monet " ( just like the painting, " from far away it's okay, but up close it's a big old mess.

* The big picture, Davenport's large outdoor painting for Southwark's Western Bridge, London, BBC London, 5 September 2006

A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the big brass " Salazar " sign from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional " 25 de Abril " in its place.

When his painting La ville de Paris was rejected by the Armory Show as being too big he instructed Samuel Halpert to remove all his works from the show.

In the ceilling of the big bridge there is a huge painting by Danish painter Per Kirkeby.

" IGN echoed this statement by stating " The comparison between graphics of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II is astounding — like looking at a still oil painting, and then turning to see the scene in living motion on a big screen TV.

According to Joseph Jordania rhythmically organized loud group singing / shouting in dissonant harmonies, together with threatening body movements, drumming on external objects, body painting and object throwing were developed by the forces of natural selection in the early stages of hominid evolution, in order to defend hominids against the big African predators ( big cats, sabretooth tigers ) after they descended from the relatively safe tree branches to the predator-infested ground.

A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the big " Salazar " brass sign from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional " 25 de Abril " in its place.

In Episode 25 of Doc Martin, PC Joe Penhale uses Tipp-Ex to cover the signature on a painting forged by his big brother, then offers the now-legal painting to Doc Martin as a gesture of apology.

Although he is best remembered as an illustrator, he also worked on a very large scale, with unusually big paintings for the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain and " two vast set-pieces " for the Royal College of Art, and at the Royal Academy a huge painting of the soldiers dicing for the garment of Jesus, described by The Manchester Guardian as " one of the most elaborate and serious paintings with a religious theme produced since the war.

Frusciante noted the feeling of the video to be extremely vibrant and over the top: " When it was us just painting ourselves silver and wearing these big silver boots and stuff, I mean it felt like glam rock or something.

He's also behind the big renovations such as a gymnasium, and painting the school with gold.