In Original Oil Paintings humble pigments mix with linseed oil to create poetries on canvases like the Mona Lisa. The recipe books of ancient Greek chemists show the discovery of a strange method of preserving colors- drying oils like walnut oil, poppy oil, hempseed oil, castor oil, and linseed oil as varnishes to seal pictures and protect them from water.
These very recipe books tell us the story of the birth of Oil Paintings. Through centuries monks carefully guarded these recipes, until it resurfaced in the 13 th century when this very method was used for painting details over tempera pictures.
However the brothers Van Eyck in the first half of the fifteenth century perfected this method and they are called the fathers of Oil Painting today.
Some Famous Original Oil Paintings
Listed below are some of the famous original paintings of our times.
Mona Lisa- Leonardo Da vinci
Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde) was painted in the 16th-century and is an oil on poplar wood. For nearly 500 years, a sense of bafflement overwhelms those who stare at Da Vinci's most famous portrait. She appears to be smiling at times and the very next moment the smile fades away. How did the great painter capture such a mysterious expression and why haven't other artists copied it? After running the painting through an emotion recognition software (specially designed for this very purpose), they claimed that the smile is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, 2% angry, less than 1% neutral, and not surprised at all.
Like all great pieces of Art, Mona Lisa is indeed a mystery, which has inspired us to imagine
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