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• Famous Artists


  • Starry night
  • Sunflowers
  • The Potato Eaters
  • Mona Lisa
  • The Last Supper
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Weeping woman
  • Guernica
  • Les Demoiselles d Avignon
  • Sistine Chapel
  • David
  • Romeo & Juliet
  • Hamlet
• Famous Filipino Artists

  • El Filibusterismo
  • Noli Me Tangere
  • Maiden by a stream
  • Planting rice
  • Spoliarium
  • Death of Cleopatra
• Visual arts


  Art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture
• Applied arts


  Industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art
• Painting


  The practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support")
• Painting


  • The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh
  • The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
• Painting


  • Brings in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction
  • Can be naturalistic and representational, photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic, emotive or political in nature
• Oldest known paintings found in the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia)

  Approximately 40,000 years ago

  
• Oldest known figurative art painting, of an unknown animal, discovered in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the Indonesian island of Borneo (Kalimantan)


  Over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years ago
• Artistic depiction of a group of rhinos made in the Chauvet Cave

  30,000 to 32,000 years ago
• Figurative cave paintings depicting pig hunting in the Maros-Pangkep karst in Sulawesi

  At least 43,900 years old
• Earliest evidence of the act of painting discovered in two rock-shelters in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia


  60,000 years old
• Modern and Contemporary art has moved away from the historic value of craft and documentation in favour of concept
• The vitality and versatility of painting in the 21st century defy the previous "declarations" of its demise
• In an epoch characterized by the idea of pluralism, there is no consensus as to a representative style of the age
• Color and tone


  Made up of hue, saturation, and value, dispersed over a surface is the essence of painting, just as pitch and rhythm are the essence of music

  
• Hue


  The dominant wavelength and the first item we refer to (i.e. "yellow") when adding in the three components of a color
• Value


  The lightness or darkness of a color, indicating the quantity of light reflected
• Saturation


  The brilliance and intensity of a color
• Non-traditional elements in painting

  • Collage, incorporating different materials such as metal, plastic, sand, cement, straw, leaves or wood for their texture
• Rhythm in painting


  The distribution of form or any kind of information is of crucial importance in the given work of art, and it directly affects the aesthetic value of that work
• Realism


  • Painting art style that aims to give the viewer a reflection of the real world, but does not aim to be a true photographic depiction
• Realism


  • Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler
  • Spoliarium by Juan Luna
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
• Photorealism


  • Painting style that aims to create a painting that's indistinguishable from real life or a photograph

  
• Photorealism


  • People's Flowers by Richard Estes
  • Joseph's Liquors by Robert Cottingham
• Expressionism

  • Art style that doesn't concern itself with realism, images and scenes are often distorted or painted with otherworldly, vivid colours
• Expressionism


  • The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
  • The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh
  • Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh
• Impressionism


  • Painting style where small brush strokes are used to build up a larger picture, with a focus on accurate lighting but no emphasis on a realistic scene
• Abstract


  • Paintings that eschew realism altogether, with objects represented by colour or shape and interpretation left up to the viewer
• Abstract


  • Composition X by Wassily Kandinsky
  • Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
• 'Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow' marked subtle turning point for Piet Mondrian's practice

  1930
• Neo-Plasticism

  Also known as the plastic arts, Mondrian's belief that universal purity could be expressed through this
• Mondrian's works


  • He sought balance through his works
  • He scrutinized the placement of colors, size of shapes and qualities of surfaces in his works, all with the hope of achieving a 'stillness' in his works
• 'Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow' established itself as one of iconic status through the second half of the 20th century and permeates through motifs in pop culture today
• Mondrian has accomplished a certain execution of balance in 'Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow'
• Joan Miro painted 'Peinture (Etoile Bleue)'


  1927
• Peinture (Etoile Bleue)


  Miro's transition between figurative and abstract art
• In 2012, 'Peinture (Etoile Bleue)' led Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in London and fetched £23.5 million, setting a record for the artist and also making more than three times the price it achieved five years ago
• The scorching blue used in 'Peinture (Etoile Bleue)' can be seen used in several of Miro's future works and even went so far as to influence painters such as Mark Rothko and Yves Klein
• Surrealism


  Combining abstract concepts with semi-realistic objects that have been twisted or morphed into something unusual, they can be illogical or dreamlike, giving the viewer a heightened sense of reality