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Are you the happy owner of a new apartment? Or simply you moved in a new house and are considering doing some emergency repainting? After you decide which color fits better your new house, you need to start hunting for the perfect paintbrush.

Your luck is that in comparison with a couple of years ago, you can find nowadays a large variety of very high-quality paintbrushes. Most of them are looking very professional but in fact they are very easy to use. Of course, the main condition is that the paintbrush is helping you to do a good job in a relatively short amount of time.

Beforehand, you need to know that each paintbrush fits particular application. Some should be used for interior, some for the exterior. Some for some specific part of the room – as doors, windows, corners – other paintbrushes are adequate for specific rooms. Some can be used not only by right handed, but also by left handed. You can even find on the market very fancy models, fashionable and colorful that can be used also by your children, just in case that they are interested to give you a little help.

The most convenient model from the point of view of the usability is the synthetic paintbrush: it can easily be used for oil or any other types of paint, for walls or window wash. The white-china bristle paintbrushes are highly recommended for doors or window-sash.

Painter by profession, by passion or by necessity, you need to know that the easiest to manipulate paintbrush should be long handled. This format is not only easy to use, but also practical as it confers a high mobility for covering relatively fast big surfaces.

Now, you know almost everything about paintbrushes! It is time to work!

Art is the signature of civilization

by G. Fernández
Whether for symbolic reasons, aesthetic, practical or economic, it is certain that the painting has always been the visual artistic medium used by humans, and that has affected the consciousness of the universal society. No doubt, for example, that the visual image of the French Revolution will always be “Liberty Leading the People” by Delacroix. And no wonder the “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper chairing the bedroom of millions of young urbanites, or thousands of copies of “Guernica” by Picasso are displayed in anti-war demonstrations as the symbol of the ravages of war.

As a humble tribute to the painting, and the names that have upgraded to a medium of expression par excellence of human genius, theArtWolf.com has selected 50 masterpieces of painting, from different eras and cultures, and presents as a virtual tour in the column that you can see to the right of the page

Safely, the 50 works exhibited here are the 50 best paintings of all time, and it is likely that the reader finds, along with works necessary, others may surprise and perhaps debate. Yes, it’s “La Gioconda”. Yes, it’s “The Night Watch.” Yes, they are “The Young Ladies of Avignon”. But then there are the wonderful miniatures Basawan medieval talking about India, the bloody Read the rest of this entry »

The site of Akrotiri, on the spectacular island of Santorini, is one of the jewels of the Minoan civilization. A volcanic eruption in the mid-second millennium BC buried the city, allowing some frescoes of exceptional importance to this day arrived in an excellent state of preservation. These include the so-called “fresh antelope,” the “cool boxers”, impressive “fresh from the boats,” and perhaps the most beautiful of them all, the “cool spring”. Read the rest of this entry »

“Looking at it from a distance
Bright as the sun
On the pink clouds of dawn ”
- Excerpt from “Luo Shen Fu” the poet Cao Zhi

Gu Kaizhi is often regarded as the creator of traditional Chinese painting. Painter, poet and calligrapher, he wrote three books on theory of painting that marked deeply Chinese painting through the ages. As for his paintings, survive three, who have come to us through copies: “The wise and benevolent women,” the spectacular “Admonitions of the governesses of the Palais des Dames” is preserved in the British Museum, and the poetic “Nymph of Luo River”, shown here. Read the rest of this entry »

Landscape development was one of the main innovations of Roman painting compared to Greek. Unfortunately, few examples of the genre have come to today, highlighting a fresco found in the Villa Boscotrecase of Pompeii, and, above all, the “Landscapes of the Odyssey”, found in 1848 in a house on the Esquiline Hill, in Rome. Read the rest of this entry »