Marie Adrien Lavieille
Marie Adrien Lavieille (November 22, 1852, Paris – March 13, 1911, Paris), born Marie Petit, was a French painting, painter. She was a pupil of her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, and of Joseph Blanc. She painted a notable self-portrait in 1870, when she was 18 years old and first exhibited in 1876, and then on a regular basis at the Paris Salon, Salon, which became the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, and between 1886 and 1906 at the art exhibitions of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs. Marie Adrien Lavieille was a painter with a particular gift for portraits and still lifes. However, her work is very diversified, and reflects many of the themes of the society of her time. Her portrait subjects included her father, Jean-Jacques Petit, the painter Adrien Lavieille, whom she married in 1878, and her daughter, Andrée Lavieille, who also became a painter. As well as still lifes, she realized interiors, some landscapes, scenes of quotidian life, particularly with child ...
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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 ...
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