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  2. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits, or other solvents to make the paint thinner, faster or slower drying. (Because the solvents thin the oil in the paint, they can also be ...

  3. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. For several centuries the oil painting has been perhaps the most prestigious form in Western art, but oil paint has many practical uses, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving examples of oil paint ...

  4. Virgil Elliott - Wikipedia

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    He is the author of the book, Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] As an member of the 1987 Artists' Advisory Panel to the California State Fair, Elliott lead a successful effort that opened the State Fair's art show to representational art and to depose the officials ...

  5. The Two Fridas - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 173.5 cm × 173 cm (68.3 in × 68 in) Location. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas in Spanish) is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The painting was the first large-scale work done by Kahlo and is considered one of her most notable paintings. [1] It is a double self-portrait, depicting ...

  6. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, may be used.

  7. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativity that continues into the ...

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