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... Painting may be done for ceremonial , devotional , decorative , rhetorical , or other motives . The range of possible media includes oil paints , watercolours , pastels , lac- quer , sand , and light itself . Painting is treated in a ...
... Painting may be done for ceremonial , devotional , decorative , rhetorical , or other motives . The range of possible media includes oil paints , watercolours , pastels , lac- quer , sand , and light itself . Painting is treated in a ...
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... painting , in its strictest sense , the practice of painting landscape pictures out - of- doors ; more loosely , the achievement of an intense impression of the open air ( French : plein air ) in a landscape painting . Until the time of ...
... painting , in its strictest sense , the practice of painting landscape pictures out - of- doors ; more loosely , the achievement of an intense impression of the open air ( French : plein air ) in a landscape painting . Until the time of ...
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... painting fans and then cloth panels representing religious themes for missionar- ies to hang in their churches . His skill and the great pleasure he took in his work soon convinced him to study painting in earnest . Having saved a ...
... painting fans and then cloth panels representing religious themes for missionar- ies to hang in their churches . His skill and the great pleasure he took in his work soon convinced him to study painting in earnest . Having saved a ...
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