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  2. Luminism (American art style) - Wikipedia

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    The light is generally cool, hard, and non-diffuse; "soft, atmospheric, painterly light is not luminist light". Brushstrokes are concealed to minimize recognition that the painting is an artefact. Luminist paintings tend not to be large to suggest a sense of timeless intimacy. The picture surface or plane is emphasized, recalling primitivism ...

  3. Light in painting - Wikipedia

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    Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives like, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and ...

  4. Thomas Kinkade - Wikipedia

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    William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) [2] [3] was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. [3] He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company.

  5. Colourist painting - Wikipedia

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    Colourist painting is a style of painting characterised by the use of intense colour, which becomes the dominant feature of the resultant work of art, more important than its other qualities. It has been associated with a number of artists and art movements throughout the 20th century.

  6. Divisionism - Wikipedia

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    In Divisionist color theory, artists interpreted the scientific literature through making light operate in one of the following contexts: [12] Local color As the dominant element of the painting, local color refers to the true color of subjects, e.g. green grass or blue sky. Direct sunlight

  7. J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia

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    The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting but exerted an influence on art in France; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques. He is also generally regarded as a precursor of abstract painting.

  8. List of painters by name - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts ...

  9. Chiaroscuro - Wikipedia

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    Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.