User Clip: Jared Ailstock: Portrait Painting Types

Portrait Painting

There are many currents of painting also called painting movements or artistic currents. These make it possible to represent the different visual languages through their eras and to visualize the great histories of painting. Jared Ailstock creates paintings in all of the styles, but he mainly focuses on portraits.

Here, Ailstock shares more about the different types of art.

Ancient art

Ancient art extends from -900 to +300 and includes Greek (Hellenistic) and Roman art in particular.

Gothic painting

Ailstock indicates that Gothic painting (painting movement that appears around the year 1200) is mainly characterized in northern Europe by stained glass painting which was an important and prestigious form of painting until the 15th century.

The Renaissance

According to Ailstock, renaissance painting (a painting movement that developed in the 16th century) is characterized by a whole series of novelties such as the appearance of the nude, the notion of landscape, pers close