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Elements of design: The design of a painting is its visual format: the arrangement of its lines, shapes, colors, tones, and textures into an expressive pattern. It is the sense of inevitability in this formal organization that gives a great painting its self-sufficiency and presence. The following are the elements of design:
(From Encyclopedia Britannica: painting)
Mediums: the liquids added to paints to bind them and make them workable OR all the various paints, tools, supports, surfaces, and techniques employed by painters. (From Encyclopedia Britannica: painting)
Modern art: art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (From Credo Reference: modern art)
Painting: The direct application of pigment to a surface to produce by tones of color or of light and dark some representation or decorative arrangement of natural or imagined forms. (From Credo Reference: painting)
Pigment: any of a group of compounds that are intensely coloured and are used to colour other materials. Pigments are insoluble and are applied not as solutions but as finely ground solid particles mixed with a liquid. (From: Encyclopedia Britannica: pigment)
Edward Hopper: is widely acknowledged as the most important realist painter of twentieth-century America. But his vision of reality was a selective one, reflecting his own temperament in the empty cityscapes, landscapes, and isolated figures he chose to paint.
Frida Kahlo: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors. She is celebrated in Mexico for her attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and by feminists for her depiction of the female experience and form.
Lisa McShane: One of her paintings, The Sun Sets on the Slope of the Horse Heaven Hills, was on exhibit in the American Embassy in Yemen for several years. Mountains at Dusk is in the collection of the Washington State Governor's Mansion in Olympia, Washington. Her studio is on Samish Island surrounded by eagles, trees, and tidelands.
National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS): supports artists around the world in striving for artistic excellence by recognizing great art, enriching education, enhancing skills, challenging abilities and expanding marketing opportunities.
Oil Painters of America (OPA): a non-for-profit organization representing more than 3,500 artists throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Founded in 1991, OPA is dedicated to preserving and promoting excellence in representational art. Its primary focus is to draw attention to the lasting value of fine drawing, color, composition and the appreciation of light.
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