subject: Old Master Paintings [print this page] Paintings are the methods of storing memories and keeping history alive by employing a very strange way of documentation. It is through the cave paintings that today we can really come to know how people used to live many years before. Painting has gone through various changes over the years and has reached various new heights. However, what gave to the modern paintings is very interesting to study. The techniques that gave rise to several modern variants is really worth revisiting. One of this is the old master paintings, a very European term this style was practiced back in the 1800, which today have given rise to several new painting forms and duplication of the old ones.
Who are they?
Revisiting the old masters will make you find out the question of who are they, a group of painters who lived and worked during the 1800's are called the old masters. This collective term describes artists who worked with the same techniques during this time. They were extremely trained and actually formed guilds or very masters of specific artists village and actually had pupils under them. It was their work to impart trainings of these old master oil paintings to the others. They practiced several new techniques that actually helped them to create some new work of art and retain them for long.
The techniques
It is etching and engraving techniques that they employed. These techniques are difficult to replicate as the colors obtained in one go are not so easy to create once more. They are indeed very truly named as masterpieces as because the old master paintings cannot be copied. Somehow because of the techniques no one will be able to copy the painting exactly. That is why today these are preserved with great precision in several international museums or are put for sale at very high prices. The high use of oil color in the paintings also reflects baroque tradition is seen to bring out the masterpieces better.
Few masterpieces
Beginning from Bondone to Michelangelo, Botticelli and Da Vinci all are extremely talented master painters. A few old master paintings are Monalisa, several paintings of David and Venus. Etc. Even Rembrandt is famous for his style and fits into this group. Leonardo Ds Vinci's last supper and even Van Gogh's sunflower all are the various important paintings of this time and are even extremely famous. The layers of oil color that reflects baroque, plays the key features of this time and these old master paintings. The light and shade, darkness is evidently the beauty of these works.
The old masters paintings for sale today are extremely high priced are really a steal for whoever purchases it. Several people today have their own art galleries that actually sale these old master paintings. This era lasted for a very small span of time but was very profound and extremely marked in terms of what it gave humanity in the form of art. However, this term old masters painting are not that an important term but still it marks the mid position between the early and the modern paintings.
