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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]
Through several rounds of regional competitions in different parts of the UK professional and amateur artists are challenged to produce a landscape; whilst the portrait competition takes place in London where the contestants produce a picture of one of three famous sitters. The winning artist of each round, selected by three judges, advances to ...
Stella Vine (born Melissa Jane Robson, 1969) is an English artist, who lives and works in London.Her work is figurative painting, with subjects drawn from personal life, as well as from rock stars, royalty, and other celebrities.
British painting had been strongly influenced by Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, who believed that the purpose of art was "to conceive and represent their subjects in a poetical manner, not confined to mere matter of fact", and that artists should aspire to emulate the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael in making their subjects appear as close ...
Poverty in painting (13 P) Prostitution in paintings (23 P) R. ... Pages in category "Paintings by subject" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Flemish Baroque painting was the last school to often paint the lowest genres at a large size, but usually combined with figure subjects. An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien , a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century:
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Ward's painting of Charlotte Corday being led to execution beat Millais's Ophelia for a prize at Liverpool, leading to much debate at the time. His historical paintings led to Ward's commission to paint eight scenes in the corridor leading into the House of Commons , despite the fact that he had won nothing at the original 1843 competition. [ 1 ]