Painting
En plein air
En plein air (literally in the open air) is a phrase in French that indicates a pictorial method consisting of…
Western painting
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19th…
Eastern painting
The history of Eastern painting includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Developments in Eastern painting…
Self-portrait
A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits…
Range-finder painting
A range-finder painting, sometimes called range-finding painting, is a large landscape painting produced as a training device to help gunners…
Problem picture
A problem picture is a genre of art popular in late Victorian painting, characterised by the deliberately ambiguous depiction of…
Local color painting
In painting, local color is the natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other…
Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English), also aquarelle (French), is a painting method in which the paints are made…
ISCC–NBS system
The ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation is a system for naming colors based on a set of 12 basic color…
Portrait painting
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict a human subject. The term 'portrait painting'…
Abstract art
Abstract art applied in its strictest sense to forms of 20th-century Western art that reject representation and have no starting-…
Grand Manner
Grand Manner (or Grand Style, maniera magnifica) refers to an idealized aesthetic style derived from classical art, and the modern…
Nocturne painting
The nocturne is a pictorial genre consisting of the representation of scenes or landscapes set at night. Nocturne painting is…
Binder material
A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a…