Top Items About Painting
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Renoir's rheumatism | The French artist Pierre Auguste Renoir suffered from rheumatism. This made painting (which he did in a chair)... | root | 173 | |
| Images | Classical Asian Body Painting | ... | root | 182 | |
| Anecdotes | Banksy's Turf War Exhibit | In July 2003, Britain`s "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for leaving such subversive images as riot... | Anonymous | 79 | |
| Anecdotes | Angelic Voice | Franz Haydn visited Sir Joshua Reynolds in his studio one day shortly after the artist had completed a beautiful portrait... | Anonymous | 61 | |
| Anecdotes | Watercolour | "The essence of watercolour, say aficionados, is a highly personal, immediate relationship between the artist and... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | Huang Erh-nan | The celebrated Chinese artist Huang Erh-nan found fame in the 1920s for his unusual painting technique. He did not paint... | Anonymous | 49 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Embarrassment, Nudity and Misunderstandings | Two young nuns are ordered to paint a room in the convent. The strict Mother Superior warns them not get any paint on... | Anonymous | 45 | |
| Anecdotes | Dedication | While painting The Raft of the Medusa, Jean Gericault`s masterpiece inspired by a nautical disaster which left... | Anonymous | 41 | |
| Trivia | Earliest evidence of seaside civilization | The waste from shellfish dinners discarded in a South African cave is said to be the earliest evidence of humans living... | root | 40 | |
| Anecdotes | Rigaudy Portrait? | The French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud was once commissioned to paint the portrait of a certain unusually cosmeticized... | Anonymous | 34 |
