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Marie Petiet
Marie Petiet or Marie Dujardin-Beaumetz (1854–1893) was a French painter known for her genre scenes and portraits. Biography Dujardin-Beaumetz née Petiet was born on 20 July 1854 in Limoux, France the daughter of the painter Léopold Petiet. She studied with the painters Jean-Jacques Henner and Louis Hector Leroux from 1877 through 1883. She married the painter 1886 and began showing her work under the name Marie Dujardin-Beaumetz. She exhibited at the Société des Artistes Français from 1877 through 1883. She also exhibited at the Salon (Paris), Paris Salon. Petiet died on 16 April 1893 in Paris. Legacy Her works are preserved in the Musée Petiet de Limoux. Her work ''Knitter asleep'' was included in the book ''Women Painters of the World''. on Project Gutenberg Petiet was in ... [...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] |
