History – The Art Treehouse

COMING FULL CIRCLE FOR ARTISTS

Globally we are coming full circle, returning to biobased materials. In fact, many early artist materials were based on natural

Much of today’s art places stress on bright colors and strong sharp lines. In a gallery the “high contrast” look

Can a culture develop an identity around certain colors? In the case of Indian Yellow, it appears to be the

Bruges, in the Flemish region of Belgium, is sometimes called the “Venice of the North”. During the 1400s, it was

In the mid-19th century, King Ludwig I of Bavaria longed to have something like the fine lime frescoes he saw

“The tendency to put in more and more white is so usual that it would be well to restrict the

Artists sometimes are fascinated by the search for a “Secret” that makes old master paintings last so long and look

According to legend, Giotto was the ugliest artist in town, but he was also the greatest illusionist. As a boy,

The Greeks observed that the common cuttlefish emitted a brownish-black pigment when attacked. They discovered that pigment could be made

Painting knives are certainly great tools for contemporary artists using impasto techniques. Some form of the painting knife has been