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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
List of paintings by Francis Bacon; List of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat; List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille; List of paintings by Arnold Böcklin; List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch; List of paintings by Sandro Botticelli; List of works by François Boucher; List of paintings by Eugène Boudin; List of paintings by Valentin de ...
Classical paintings and sculptures from the mid-18th and 19th centuries onwards are often referred to as Neoclassical works of art. Some well-known classical artists include Michelangelo, Leonardo ...
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
Most famous of all are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically on the canvas. Albers' theories on art and education were formative for the next generation of artists.
Image credits: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press / Getty Images #3 Rembrandt (July 15, 1606 — October 4, 1669) Rembrandt is regarded among the greatest portrait painters and printmakers of all time.
The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and ...
By judging paintings based on their novelty and influence, the mathematical algorithm selected the most creative paintings and sculptures of each era. According to a computer these 20 paintings ...