Articles for Oil Painting

Just Stop Oil protesters deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings
3 months, 1 week ago

Just Stop Oil protesters deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three Just Stop Oil supporters …

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Exploring the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Shibu Natesan’s ‘Four Favorites and Other Works’
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Exploring the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Shibu Natesan’s ‘Four Favorites and Other Works’

The Hindu  

Known for his penchant for painting while travelling, Kerala-born acclaimed artist Shibu Natesan’s artistic process took an unexpected turn during the pandemic. ‘Four Favorites and Other Works’ is an outcome of that period when he contemplated transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary subjects. From shuttlecocks to snack packets, clothes piled up to various fruits and vegetables, Natesan breathes life into these …

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Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change
11 months, 1 week ago

Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change

China Daily  

The Dance by Lin Fengmian is on display. "Between the 1950s and '70s, he tried to incorporate Chinese aesthetics in oil painting, creating many rural life scenes," Xiang says. "This laid a solid foundation for the arrival of his mature phase, when he developed an ingenious approach to lines, planes, and dots in landscape paintings, achieving a synthesis of Western …

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Chinese and Spanish artists in the frame
1 year ago

Chinese and Spanish artists in the frame

China Daily  

Actress, oil painting by Zhan Jianjun. Spanish art has produced luminary figures for generations, from Jusepe de Ribera, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya in the golden age of oil painting, to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro whose pioneering explorations ushered painting into a new era. Their talent and creativity keep inspiring artists in China, where the introduction of oil …

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Chinese and Spanish artists in the frame
1 year ago

Chinese and Spanish artists in the frame

China Daily  

Actress, oil painting by Zhan Jianjun. Spanish art has produced luminary figures for generations, from Jusepe de Ribera, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya in the golden age of oil painting, to Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro whose pioneering explorations ushered painting into a new era. Their talent and creativity keep inspiring artists in China, where the introduction of oil …

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Woman's oil painting of a rainy car window stuns netizens
1 year, 8 months ago

Woman's oil painting of a rainy car window stuns netizens

Hindustan Times  

Several artists have various ways of making and presenting their artwork. Now, another artist has gone viral on social media after a picture of her oil painting of a rainy car window stunned netizens. Oil painting of a rainy car window. "My oil painting of a rainy car window," shared 25-year-old Riona Buthello on Twitter. Her oil painting shows shades …

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Town portrait
1 year, 9 months ago

Town portrait

China Daily  

An aerial view of Xianliu village, known as the hometown of oil painting in Hainan province. A stone tablet stands at the entrance of Xianliu village, on which is written: "Xianliu village, hometown of oil painting". Xianliu village's oil painting tradition started in the 1980s, when a villager named Chen Youjun learned the artistic form. He went on to found …

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Best of 2022: The biggest art stories mattered more than soup thrown on a Van Gogh
2 years, 1 month ago

Best of 2022: The biggest art stories mattered more than soup thrown on a Van Gogh

LA Times  

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe Francois-de-Paule de Rigoud, comte de Vaudreuil,” circa 1784, oil on canvas Last year, the Getty Museum added a major Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait to its collection, while this year the Huntington Art Museum snagged a great Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun portrait of an aristocrat. Scrambling for gender equity in art museum …

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Climate activists throw liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna
2 years, 1 month ago

Climate activists throw liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna

LA Times  

Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame. Members of the group Last Generation Austria tweeted they had targeted the 1915 painting “Death and Life” at the Leopold Museum in Vienna to protest their government’s use of fossil …

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Girl with a Pearl Earring attacked
2 years, 2 months ago

Girl with a Pearl Earring attacked

The Independent  

Climate activists targeted Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring at a museum in The Hague, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday, but the artwork was apparently not damaged. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?” open image in gallery The Princess of Wales views Vermeer’s painting …

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Watch: Tomato soup thrown at Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' by activists in London
2 years, 2 months ago

Watch: Tomato soup thrown at Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' by activists in London

Hindustan Times  

Two cans of tomato soup were tossed all over Vincent Van Gogh’s famous ‘Sunflowers’ painting at London’s National Gallery by climate activists protesting against fossil fuel extraction. Image posted by the ‘Just Stop Oil’ group on Twitter after throwing soup over Van Gogh's “Sunflowers" painting in National Gallery, London. In a video doing rounds on social media platforms, two women …

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Shenzhen museum spotlights xieyi-style oil paintings
2 years, 6 months ago

Shenzhen museum spotlights xieyi-style oil paintings

China Daily  

Ngari, by Fan Di'an. The Guan Shanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen of Guangdong province has held an exhibition of oil paintings done in the xieyi style every year since 2015, and taken it across the country. The effort has inspired oil artists to integrate the semi-abstract technique of xieyi, of classic Chinese painting, into the creation of oil paintings, seeking …

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Climate protesters glue themselves to Constable masterpiece at National Gallery
2 years, 6 months ago

Climate protesters glue themselves to Constable masterpiece at National Gallery

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The two demonstrators representing Just Stop Oil also attached their own version of the painting, which was intended to …

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Lost Oil Painting of Indian Painter Amrita Sher-Gil to Sell for 2.8 USD
3 years, 10 months ago

Lost Oil Painting of Indian Painter Amrita Sher-Gil to Sell for 2.8 USD

News 18  

A long-lost portrait made by Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil was recently rediscovered and is now all set to be auctioned. According to a report by CNN, the painting is titled “Portrait of Denyse” and depicts one of Sher-Gil’s friends and art critic Denyse Proutaux. The oil painting depicts Denyse Proutaux dressed in a red velvet dress in front of vividly …

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Painting a hopeful picture
4 years, 7 months ago

Painting a hopeful picture

China Daily  

Liu Zhiwen, a senior student majoring in oil painting at the College of Art, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, paints on a wall in his hometown Daowu village, Hunan province, in May. From French expressionist Henri Matisse's Young Woman in a Blue Blouse and Dutch master Vincent van Gogh's post-impressionist Portrait of Armand Roulin, to Spaniard Pablo Picasso's primitivist …

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The restoration that shocked the world
4 years, 11 months ago

The restoration that shocked the world

BBC  

The restoration that shocked the world Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent A new exhibition features the groundbreaking work of Jan Van Eyck, whose Ghent Altarpiece features an astonishing number of art firsts, writes Fisun Güner. Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent When Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece was revealed after years of restoration, many were shocked by the strange appearance of the Mystic Lamb Sixteenth-Century denizens …

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Exhibition of Chinese painter Xu Shi opens in Morocco's Rabat
5 years, 5 months ago

Exhibition of Chinese painter Xu Shi opens in Morocco's Rabat

China Daily  

Xu Shi - New Image Oil Painting Exhibition opened in Rabat on Thursday, featuring 56 paintings by Chinese painter Xu Shi and his students. In the opening ceremony, Xu introduced the style and characteristics of the new image oil painting to nearly 100 guests. He said that the new image oil painting combines hearing and vision, and uses pictures to …

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Master class in oil painting
5 years, 8 months ago

Master class in oil painting

China Daily  

A visitor look at portraits by oil painter Jin Shangyi on show at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing through Sunday. His works demonstrate the Chinese understanding of oil painting, which was introduced to the country by European missionaries more than 100 years ago. And by doing so, he has guided viewers to appreciate the beauty of oil …

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Master class in oil painting
5 years, 8 months ago

Master class in oil painting

China Daily  

A visitor look at portraits by oil painter Jin Shangyi on show at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing through Sunday. His works demonstrate the Chinese understanding of oil painting, which was introduced to the country by European missionaries more than 100 years ago. And by doing so, he has guided viewers to appreciate the beauty of oil …

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