Category: art
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Impressionist Style
Impressionists focused on the effect of light, especially at dawn or dusk and at the golden hour. They used distinctive fast brushstrokes rather than delicately painted details and used bright or highly pigmented paint to make the work vivid.
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Watercolour
Watercolour painting is the process of painting with pigments that are mixed with water. Of all the painting processes, watercolour painting is known for its delicacy and subtlety because watercolour art is all about thin washes and transparent colour (though watercolours can be made opaque with the addition of Chinese…
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Still Life
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural or man-made.
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Gestural Painting
Gestural abstraction, sometimes called “action painting”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
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