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The most important element of color is the paint. There are three qualitative features in paints. First of all, its color - dark blue, green, etc. Further - the lightness of paint. Paint can be made lighter and darker, without changing of its specific character: light green and dark green are shades of the same [...]

Picture it is not simple the image of something. The picture creates an image capable to move you in the fantastic world or to other epoch, giving pleasant memoirs on events of your life or about the person close to you. For this reason, despite availability of cameras and computer technologies, the picturesque picture written [...]

Great artists of different epochs not only paid huge significance to a correct choice of a frame for the pictures - they did sketches of elements of a baguette or even produced it. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, considered that “the frame creates a special aura round a picture, it should not be just a [...]

Pictures in our apartment are not just one more decoration of walls, or a method to close a hole. The picture is like a wall tsarina, a joy for eyes and an indicator of your taste and style. If doesn’t mean if you have works of Rembrandt or Picasso, you should know how to place [...]

The most widespread format for a picture is quadrangular, and the pure square meets less often, than a quadrangle, more or less extended upwards or in breadth. Some epoch appreciate a round format (tondo) or an oval. The format history is not written yet; there are only the incidental researches concerning separate epoch and artists. [...]

Frame development is connected with occurrence of an easel painting - with the Middle Ages, with late Gothic. During an epoch of late Gothic and the early Renaissance, the frame acted as the architectural construction connected with architecture of church and proceeding in architecture of a picture. Ordinary, not the architectural frame, consisting from laths, [...]

At all times fine arts products had an appreciated value. Portraits and pictures decorated manors of noblemen and merchants, palaces of monarchs and the house of intelligentsia. Today interest to painting also is rather great, and the portrait on a photo became a popular gift on birthdays, anniversaries and different other holidays. The portrait always was [...]

Fans of the fine things say that Dutch painting is one of the most amazing directions of art. But it is not possible to see works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Snayders and others widely and a little known painters very often. Sale of their pictures at auctions is whole event for collectors. It is necessary to [...]

Romanticism (fr. romantisme from an armour; romanum Roman from Roma — Rome) — one of two, along with Classicism, basic tendencies of art thinking. However, it has historically developed that this word began to name a wide range of the most different phenomena. In the end of eighteenth century as a romantic named all unusual, [...]

Painting is a kind of fine arts, when works of art are created by means of the paints, which are put on any firm surface. As well as other art forms, painting carries out ideological and informative problems, and also serves as sphere of creation of subject aesthetic values, being one of advanced forms of [...]