Famous artists

The painting techniques.

1. Watercolor (Aquarelle technique) is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood and canvas.
2. Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings.
3. Pastel is a painting medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.
4. Ink paintings are done with a liquid that contains pigments and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing with a pen, brush, or quill.
5. Gouache is a water based paint consisting of pigment and other materials designed to be used in an opaque painting method. Gouache differs from watercolor in that the particles are larger, the ratio of pigment to water is much higher, and an additional, inert, white pigment such as chalk is also present.

Famous artists

England didn’t have its own school of painting up to the 17^th century. The Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck had a great influence on British painting. He is considered to be the father of the English portrait school.

William Hogarth was one of the greatest English artists, pictorial satirist and a man of remarkably individual character and thought. His art was a reflection, an interpretation and a commentary on the social condition of his time. Among his favorite works are six pictures united under the title “Marriage a la Mode.”

Joshua Reynolds was the prominent figure in the English school of painting. He used the most powerful means of expression known to him, bringing his canvases to life through his own impressions of the individual. Reynolds painted portraits, group pictures and historical themes. His best works are: “Admiral Hithfield”, “The Portrait of Nelly O’Brien”, “Girl at a Window”, “Venus and Cupid” and many others.

John Constable was the first landscape painter who considered that every painter should make his sketches direct from nature, that is, working in the open air. Constable was a realist. He put into his landscape cattle, horses, the people working there. He put the smiling meadows, the sparkle of the sun on rain, or the stormy and uncertain clouds. The most notable works of Constable are “Flatford Mill”, “The White Horse”, “The Hay Way”, “Waterloo Bridge”, “From Whitehall stairs” and others.

Thomas Gainsborough was one of the greatest masters of the English school of portraiture and landscape. He was tall, fair and handsome, generous, impulsive to the point of capriciousness, easily irritated, a witty talker. Among his finest works are portraits of “Lady Ligonier”, “Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs Tickell”, “Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse”, depicting the first lady of the British stage, “his own portrait”.

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