Art of the Mind's Eye e most painting is a two dimensional or flat work of visual art It is created by applying some form of color or paint to a surface Some artists paint what they see around them Others paint pictures that they see in their imagination The idea on which a painting is based is called its theme Some paintings have a religious theme For example on famous paintings in the world Leonardo da Vinci s Last Supper shows Jesus Christ sharing his final meal with his disciples Other paintings show famous legends and events in history Or they show landscapes animals or even scenes from daily life Many Chinese scroll paintings take landscapes and nature as their themes Artists also paint portraits or pictures of people Sometimes they paint pictures of themselves Such paintings are called self portraits Some painters express ideas and feelings through lines shapes colors and textures that don't look like anything you could recognize Such paintings are called abstract paintings Painters use many materials in their works These include oil Left Navajo man making a sand painting Right Classroon artist in training paints acrylics watercolors pastels inks dyes and enamel paints Painters use different tools to apply these colors like brushes of various sizes and flexible tools called palette knives You probably know that many paintings are made on canvas or paper But paintings can also be applied to different surfaces Murals are paintings on walls both indoors and outdoors Frescoes are wall paintings made on wet plaster And some Native Americans paint without paint in an art known as sand painting In Islamic countries and in East Asia especially Japan Korea and China calligraphy the art of beautiful writing is a skill equal to painting Calligraphy is usually done in ink using a brush LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES FOLK ARTS AND CRAFTS DIEGO RIVERA SCULPTURE
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HIR 0 S HIGE Artist of the Floating World ando Hiroshige was a Japanese painter and printmaker who CH was especially famous for his pictures of landscapes Hiroshige was one of the ukiyo e painters Ukiyo e is a Japanese term that means pictures of the floating world Hiroshige was born in 1797 When he was 14 Hiroshige joined the school of the ukiyo e master Utagawa Toyohiro He graduated as an artist from the school at only 15 His first work What was published six years later in 1818 important road was the Hiroshige probably created more than 5 000 prints during his subject of many lifetime His life as an artist was divided into three stages The of Hiroshige's first stage was when he was a student He followed the style of paintings his teachers in making prints of people He drew girls actors and samurai or warriors During the second stage Hiroshige made landscape designs and prints of birds and flowers His best works during this time were 55 landscape prints called the Fifty three Stations of the Tokaido Tokaido was a road that connected the Japanese cities of Osaka Kyoto and Edo now called Tokyo Along the road were 53 towns Inns in each town provided lodging food and gifts for travelers Hiroshige made one print for each town as well as one each for the beginning of the highway and the arrival in Kyoto Many people bought copies of the prints Hiroshige was soon one of the most popular ukiyo e artists of all time In the last stage of his work Hiroshige illustrated more landscapes Some empty and some with people in them But he did far too much work and his later work wasn't his best It has been estimated that Hiroshige created more than 5 000 prints He knew how to create very simply and beautifully what he saw LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES PAINTING DIEGO RIVERA SCULPTURE DID YOU KNOW The Tokaido Road had been in use for over 700 years when Hiroshige began to make pictures of it peo opel je sdos Jo sampd sy Joy snoue sem aximpsoIH Samsung
