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Eurilda Loomis France
Eurilda Q. Loomis France (1865-1931) was an American painter. Biography France née Loomis was born in 1865 in Pittsburgh. She traveled to Paris, France where she was taught by Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. She also studied at the Académie Julian with Carolus-Duran. She married fellow artist Jesse Leach France on January 24, 1889. In 1890 France exhibited her painting at the Salon (Paris), Paris Salon. She List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, exhibited her work at The Woman's Building (Chicago), the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She also exhibited her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. France was a member of American Federation of Arts, the Society of Independent Artists, and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club . France died in 1931 in New Haven, Connecticut. References External links *image of France's art [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
