Marcia Hall states that while the plaster was still wet, an artist would paint on the plaster using a pigment, color, which was dissolved in water (1). ... The oils in each color would allow the pigment to stay moist longer and allow the artist to move the paint around before it dried out. ... The first organic color was called mauvine. Women used Mauvine as a fashionable dress color due to the fact that it was the new popular color on the market. ... Texture and color became the focus of paintings rather than the realistic appearance of a portrait. ...

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The subtle use of color and the immediacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced. ... His use of light, color, proportion and scale truly enhanced the moods of his figures. ... (Examples: Young Women With a Water Jar, Women With A Pearl Necklace, etc.) ... The use of color on the girl's eyes, lips and nose are modeled with gently modulated tones of colors. ... But Vermeer used his hands to create this harmony of light, color and beauty. ...

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The setting of the sun is further evident by the color of the sky which is not monochromatic, changes from lighter to darker blue moving from left to right. ... This is most evident in the color of the grass which progresses from bright green in the foreground to a brownish, light green mix in the middle ground. ... An interesting effect of the sun's lighting is shown in the color of the clouds that loom over the tops of the mountains. ... Close to the path, there is a small brook with a young boy lying on his stomach and drinking the water. ... Meanwhile, Constable's The Cornfie...

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In Time magazine's first color issue, on December 24th, 1924 Benton, Grant and Curry were hailed as modernists, proclaiming that the United States no longer had to look to Europe for modern regional art . ... All this is pronounced by the only two full color paintings of the set. ... This mixture of water and colored powder provided him paint with a glossier base. ...

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Because of Vela zquez' great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as "the painter's painter,"" as demonstrated in the paintings Las Meninas, Sebastia n de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf. ... The Infanta Margarita is in the center, attended by two Meninas, or maids of honor, Doña Isabel de Velasco and Doña Mara Sarmiento, who curtsy as the latter offers her mistress a drink of water in a bùcaro-a reddish earthen vessel -on a tray. ...

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On October 28, 1909 an abstract expressionist by the name of Francis Bacon was brought into the world in Georgian Dublin. Francis Bacon already having three older siblings, and one younger than him was considered the weakling of the family. As a young boy Francis suffered from severe asthma and wa...

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