Folk Paintings are basically concerned with the villages of India. They are pictorial expressions of village painters which are marked by the subjects chosen from the epics like Ramayana and ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Image on file. unsigned The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of ...

When Abby Aldrich Rockefeller began her pioneering American folk art collection in the early 1930s, she didn’t make much use of words like cute or quaint. Schooled in the formalist tastes of the avant ...

Whether it's a tree in the foreground or a ship off in the distance, artists put a lot of thought into the placement of each element on the canvas. Now, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of ...

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic forced us into the new normal of lockdown and home quarantine, the vibrant art scene in Bangladesh has lost much of its glimmer. Yet a few galleries, in their quest ...

A landscape painting called Wheat Field with Cypresses painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside.

The Elion Art Gallery, situated east of Tian'anmen Square, is presenting Chinese Spirit Oil Landscape Exhibition. The show features 62 landscape oil paintings from 12 reputable Chinese artists. These ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

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