2Seven-year-old artist Kieron Williamson has sold his 16 watercolours for￡17,000 in just 14 minutes,setting the world record for the youngest successful painter. His latest paintings of landscapes(风景),seascapes and churches were supposed to be on display for a month at the Picturecraft galle...
Known for her figurative paintings referencing the scenes and traditions of European Old Masters, Jesse Mockrin shares her thoughts on six highlights from the upcoming ‘Master Paintings’ auction at Sotheby’s
27 in the inventory of paintings in Bergeret's hotel particulier on the rue du Temple in Paris, drawn up at the time of his death in 1785.Landscape painting in its purest form had been largely neglected in favour of history painting in France in the firstthree decades of the 18th ...
If this is true, one should expect such a turn to be manifest in the work of at least some artists who are active in old age. This essay argues that the late landscape paintings of James Reynolds exhibit just such a shift. Reynolds should be included among those few artists whose old ...
But while Greenwold and her fellow curators can’t borrow paintings for the museum’s American collection, there’s nothing in Freer’s bequest that stops them from borrowing additional pairs of eyes. For the museum’s exhibition “Shifting Boundaries...
Chinese paintingsdo not have a single perspective(视角); every area of the painting isinteresting to the eye. Landscapes are often painted from a viewpoint above thescene, so that many6(area) can be seen at once. In large scenes orlandscapes, your eyes are meant7(travel)along a visual ...
Now, in Kan's studio, there are both traditional Chinese landscape paintings made of feathers, and pastoral paintings involving oil painting techniques. Themes include landscapes, birds, animals and people. One of the paintings, "Twelve Beauties of Jinling," based on the classic Chinese novel "A...
rather its nature.Chinese paintings do not have a single view;every area of the painting is interesting to the eye.Landscapes are often painted from a viewpoint above the scene so that many areas can be seen at once.In large scenes,the eye is meant to travel along a ...
“I think it is so important to show other Australians the different landscapes China has to offer. I think so many Australians, when they think about China, imagine the historical sites of Beijing and the exciting things to see in Shanghai but have no idea about other beautiful places, ...
The selection is traditionally rich and varied: landscapes and genre scenes, history paintings, portraits and still lifes, famous paintings from a variety of stylistic periods – such as Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Classicism – and different schools. The international character of our ...