Finding Paintings Around The World

By Author: Linda Mc Cain Smith
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Paintings are a universal art. There are many people interested in this art because painters can express their feelings and experience. Obviously, there's nothing better than to be original but it is important to take a famous painter as reference.

Painting is the practice of applying color to a surface such as, paper, wood, canvas, glass, lacquer or concrete. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational. They are according to your characteristics.

If you want to be a good painter follow these steps: read the story about the artist and the painting, study the style of the painting and practice everyday.

Now, it's time to talk about a famous Spanish painter. Francisco Goya was born in a small city near Saragossa, Spain. His father was a painter too. When he was fourteen he was apprenticed to a local artist. This was the opening of his art career.

He specializes in fresco. Frescos are paintings done on a wall or ceiling by using watercolors on fresh, which has been applied to the surface. Children with a cart, the Colossus, Blind man's buff and Saturn Devouring one of his Children, are some ...
... of his recognized paintings.

Paintings can express people personality. Oscar Wilde, the famous British writer said Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. This is true because until now there is nothing better than art to express you.

If you want to enter to this world, do it seriously. Give all your effort. Oil Reproductions are very common in art lover because the works are exactly like the original and the price is not so expensive.

Art is Culture. Don't forget that.