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For the traditional realist painter, the painting process is a construction site. The first stage is the “underpainting.” Usually executed in a single color (like burnt umber or ultramarine blue), this monochromatic layer establishes the values—the lights and darks—of the composition. It is essentially the skeleton of the painting. This layer must be “lean” (thinned…

For three centuries, European academies placed history painting at the top of the hierarchy of genres, above portrait, landscape, and still life. History painting was the art of the great subject: biblical events, classical myth, and the deeds of kings and heroes, rendered on a grand scale and meant to instruct as much as to…

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