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X-ray of painting showing original pose. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.
The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts of the world.
This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies , evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.
Clifford Ellis (1907–1985), English painter, print-maker and art teacher; Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610), German artist of cabinet paintings; Arthur Webster Emerson (1885–1968), American painter; Tracey Emin (born 1963), English painter, draftsman and sculptor; Paul Emmert (1826–1867), Swiss/American artist and print-maker
Detail from Seurat's Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism. Pointillism (/ ˈ p w æ̃ t ɪ l ɪ z əm /, also US: / ˈ p w ɑː n-ˌ ˈ p ɔɪ n-/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
This is a list of artists who create contemporary art, i.e., those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present day. Artists on this list meet the following criteria:
Ilya Ostroukhov (1858–1929), Russian painter and art collector; Masamitsu Ōta (太田雅光, 1892–1975), Japanese print-maker; Otake Chikuha (尾竹竹坡, 1878–1936), Japanese painter; Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869), German painter; Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), French painter and writer; Auseklis Ozols (born 1941), American ...
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.