Category: Painting
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Abstraction is my melody
I can’t imagine my life without music and painting. Every time when I listen another one song in my playlist I imagine colorful abstractions, mix of unbelievable textures and mediums. Each of my pictures always remind me one or a several songs. And even after a years when I watching in my abstractions, there is…
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Painting From The Year 1559 Contains Over 100 Proverbs We Still Use Today
More than 450 years ago, Dutch master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Dutch Proverbs, an oil on wood painting that visually represents over 100 Dutch proverbs. Many of these proverbs still exist today such as ‘when the cat’s away, the mice will play’, or ‘banging your head against a brick wall’. The work…
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Amazing Real-Life Locations of Famous Paintings That You Can Actually Visit
Have you ever wanted to track down the location where your favorite painting was actually created? Wanted to sip a martini in the same spot van Gogh painted his masterpiece or walk along the bridge that inspired Monet’s ‘Water Lillies’ series? With the help of this blog, now you can! See below to explore some…
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Master Works of Art History Reimagined by Jeff Hamada
A little while ago, Booooooom (yes, that’s o times 7!), put a call out to the interwebs to recreate their favorite old master paintings with a modern spin. As the interwebs likes to do, all hell broke loose and professional and amateur artists alike started submitting their entries. It was so successful, in fact, that…
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Learn How To Paint Using Watercolor: Essential Watercolor Techniques All Painters Need to Know
Ever wanted to learn how to paint using watercolor? My Modern Met has put together a handy guide to help both the eager beginner all the way through to the seasoned professional. Be sure to share this with someone who’s caught the painting bug! Watercolor painting has long been a favorite medium of expression for…
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Artist Paints Luminous Sliced Fruit That Look Like Stained Glass Windows
Dennis Wojtkiewicz paints luminous portraits of sliced fruit that have the luminosity of stained glass windows. His oil on canvas paintings focus exclusively on the edible subject, with dramatic backlit lighting seeming to light up the melons, citrus, apples, and kiwis. Wojtkiewicz works feature tiny details like individual segments of juice, striations, and the fuzzy…
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1,000+ Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Available to Download FOR FREE
Every artist explores dimensions of space and place, orienting themselves and their works in the world, and orienting their audiences. Then there are artists like Vincent van Gogh, who make space and place a primary subject. In his early paintings of peasant homes and fields, his figures’ muscular shoulders and hands interact with sturdy walls…
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