34 Facts About Western painting

Western painting reached its zenith in Europe during the Renaissance, in conjunction with the refinement of drawing, use of perspective, ambitious architecture, tapestry, stained glass, sculpture, and the period before and after the advent of the printing press.

Minoan Western painting is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC.

Some famous Greek painters who worked on wood panels and are mentioned in texts are Apelles, Zeuxis and Parrhasius; however, with the single exception of the Pitsa panels, no examples of ancient Greek panel Western painting survive, only written descriptions by their contemporaries or later Romans.

Byzantine Western painting has a hieratic feeling and icons were and still are seen as a representation of divine revelation.

In post-Antique Catholic Europe the first distinctive artistic style to emerge that included Western painting was the Insular art of the British Isles, where the only surviving examples are miniatures in Illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells.

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Panel Western painting becomes more common during the Romanesque period, under the heavy influence of Byzantine icons.

Towards the middle of the 13th century, Medieval art and Gothic Western painting became more realistic, with the beginnings of interest in the depiction of volume and perspective in Italy with Cimabue and then his pupil Giotto.

The illusion of glowing light with a porcelain-like finish characterized Early Netherlandish Western painting and was a major difference to the matte surface of tempera paint used in Italy.

Renaissance Western painting reflects the revolution of ideas and science that occurred in this period, the Reformation, and the invention of the printing press.

Baroque Western painting is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows with the purpose of the art being to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance.

Baroque was the dominant style of Western painting beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century.

Western painting said he wanted to create art to delight, and it can be said that his use of bright colors tries to maintain serenity of composition.

The Surrealist movement in Western painting became synonymous with the avant-garde and featured artists whose works varied from the abstract to the super-realist.

Ernst's inscription on the back of the Western painting reads: The picture is curious because of its symmetry.

The Western painting was first exhibited in Paris in 1937, then Scandinavia and London, and in 1939 at Picasso's request the Western painting was sent to the United States in an extended loan at MoMA.

However, with the onset of the Great Depression, the Western painting came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American pioneer spirit.

Post-Second World War American Western painting called Abstract expressionism included artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Mark Tobey, James Brooks, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente, William Baziotes, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Jimmy Ernst, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and Theodoros Stamos, among others.

Western painting began the first of these paintings, Woman I, in June 1950, repeatedly changing and painting out the image until January or February 1952, when the painting was abandoned unfinished.

Western painting finished work on Woman I by November 1952, and probably the other three women pictures were concluded at much the same time.

Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953 is a Western painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon and is an example of Post World War II European Expressionism.

The Bay Area Figurative Movement of whom David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira and Richard Diebenkorn whose Western painting Cityscape 1 is a typical example, were influential members flourished during the 1950s and 1960s in California.

Western painting's subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists.

Color Field Western painting pointed toward a new direction in American Western painting, away from abstract expressionism.

Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Leo Castelli Gallery, the Richard Feigen Gallery, and the Park Place Gallery were important showcases for Color Field Western painting, shaped canvas Western painting and Lyrical Abstraction in New York City during the 1960s.

Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract Western painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.

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In contrast to Action Painting, where emphasis is on brushstrokes and high compositional drama, in Lyrical Abstraction—as exemplified by the 1971 Ronnie Landfield Western painting Garden of Delight—there is a sense of compositional randomness, relaxed compositional drama and an emphasis on process, repetition, and an all over sensibility.

Western painting's seminal essay, "Specific Objects", was a touchstone of theory for the formation of Minimalist aesthetics.

Western painting pointed to evidence of this development in the works of an array of artists active in New York at the time, including Jasper Johns, Dan Flavin and Lee Bontecou.

Western painting argued that work like Robert Morris's transformed the act of viewing into a type of spectacle, in which the artifice of the act observation and the viewer's participation in the work were unveiled.

Western painting's painting Painting, Smoking, Eating is an example of Guston's return to representation.

These Western painting were characterized by large formats, free expressive mark making, figuration, myth and imagination.

Neo-expressionism was a style of modern Western painting that became popular in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.

Western painting's work became more sculptural and involves not only national identity and collective memory, but occult symbolism, theology and mysticism.

Mainstream Western painting has been rejected by artists of the postmodern era in favor of artistic pluralism.