Types of Art Paintings
Art paintings can be examined in five different areas: when in history they were made, what medium or style they were created in, who made the artwork and what message the artist was trying to present.
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History
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Human beings have been painting well before recorded history. An example of an early painting was found in a cave in Chauvet Cave, in Vallon-Pont-dArc, Ardeche, France, which has been dated between 30,000 B.C. and 28,000 B.C.
Famous Painters and Their Styles
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Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso are famous painting innovators. Van Gogh and Claude Monet were Impressionists, and Pablo Picasso was an Abstract Cubist.
Medium
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Artists express their paintings using a variety of media. The three most popular media are oil, acrylic and watercolor.
Style
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Artists paint in a variety different styles. These styles range from life-like Photo Realism to unidentifiable lines, dots and color called Abstract Expressionism.
Purpose
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Each painting is an expression of an idea, emotion or situation from the artist's point of view. Art paintings offer viewers a glimpse of the artists' time period and the way people viewed and reacted to the world around them.
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