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  2. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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    Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...

  3. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits, or other solvents to make the paint thinner, faster or slower drying. (Because the solvents thin the oil in the paint, they can also be ...

  4. En plein air - Wikipedia

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    The theory of 'En plein air' painting is credited to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), first expounded in a treatise entitled Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), [2] where he developed the concept of landscape portraiture by which the artist paints directly onto canvas in situ within the ...

  5. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    The lining of paintings is a process of conservation science and art restoration used to strengthen, flatten or consolidate oil or tempera paintings on canvas by attaching a new support to the back of the existing one. The process is sometimes referred to as relining.

  6. Impasto - Wikipedia

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    Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses (1890) is an oil painting by Van Gogh which makes extensive use of the impasto technique. Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, [1] usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas.

  7. Tonalism - Wikipedia

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    Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often dominated compositions by artists associated with the style. [1]

  8. Wet-on-wet - Wikipedia

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    Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup, [1] is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. Used mostly in oil painting, the technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first ...

  9. Category:Landscape paintings - Wikipedia

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    C. California Spring (painting) Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees) Capriccio (art) Cass (painting) The Castle of Muiden in Winter; Cemetery, New Mexico (Marsden Hartley)

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