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A portrait of Mrs. Lamar Looney, the first woman ever elected to serve in the Oklahoma State Senate, was unveiled during a ceremony in the State Senate Chamber on Tuesday.

The painting is the latest in a series of historical paintings, a project by the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc. The portrait is sponsored by the 2005 Senate Women's Caucus, Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, the Rural Women's Business Center and the Family of Mrs. Lamar Looney. The painting was done by Norman, Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer.

Born in 1871 in Alabama, Mirabeau Lamar Cole was named after Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.

"Mrs. Looney was a pioneer woman in many ways. As a child, she loved to read her father's law books. As an adult, she and her husband moved from Texas to Oklahoma, but she soon was widowed with five children under the age of 10 to raise alone. She taught music, farmed and did whatever she needed to care for her children," said Charles Ford, former State Senator and President of the Historical Preservation Fund.

In 1912, Mrs. Looney was elected registrar of deeds for Harmon County and was later elected twice to serve as county treasurer. In 1916, she was elected to the position of Harmon County Clerk and in 1920, friends persuaded Mrs. Looney to run for the State Senate.

"When you think about the fact that Mrs. Looney was running for office and elected at a time when women couldn't even vote in this country, her accomplishments are all the more impressive'" said Sen. Debbe Leftwich, spokesperson for the Senate Women's Caucus. "Her courage and determination made it possible for the rest of us to follow."

While in the Senate, Looney served as chair of the State and County Affairs Committee, the Prohibition Enforcement Committee and the Agriculture Committee. She was the only woman to serve in the Oklahoma Senate until the mid-70's.

Mrs. Looney pushed for legislation that would allow women to serve in all state offices, but the constitutional amendment was not adopted during her lifetime. She died on September 3, 1935.

Her granddaughter, 88 year-old Wanda Baily of Oklahoma City, was among the relatives on hand for the dedication. The family was joined by members of the Senate Women's caucus for the unveiling. Baily remarked that seeing the women in the chamber "felt great-that's where we belong."

To view this portrait and other pieces of original art sponsored by the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc., go to www.oksenate.gov and select "Senate Artwork."

The oil painting is amazing. Though, few people know the inventor of oil painting.

Using oil to paint has been tried in the Byzantine era. According to the report, this painting will not dry exposed under the sun for a few months. In 1200, the monk Francis Ross wrote a essay called "a variety of art forms" on the painting. In this paper, he introduced the procedure of Linseed Oil and the Arab resin. At the end of the thirteen century, there were paintings related to oil painting in the British Isles. At the end of the fourteen century, the two painters Van Eyck brothers in the Netherlands who used the oil to melt pigment formed pure oil painting. Even though art historians cannot conclude that the Van Eyck brothers are the inventors of oil painting, they found an ideal oil-based painting at the basis of previous experiments.

Many experts think that their greatest success is putting the resin into the oil so that the writing can be flowing and dry quickly. The foremost one who studied and mastered the techniques of oil painting painter in Italy is Antonueuo De Messina (1430-1479). It was said that he trained the usage of oil painting in Venice after he learnt the Van Eyck brothers’ painting techniques in the Netherlands. Then oil painting became well-liked as an independent painting in Europe.

For hundreds of years, oil painting are further developed and improved after the sequence of generations and the creation of the artist. The oil painting has been the periods of the classical, modern and existing. The painting in different times is being affected by the control of the different art ideological and the constraint of techniques, showing a different feature.

XU Beihong
Born: July 19, 1895(1895-07-19)Yixing, Jiangsu China
Died: September 26, 1953 (aged 58)d. He is famous oil painter as well as masters of Chinese ink painting in the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes - a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique

Xu Beihong was trained in the tradition of academism in Paris and was a painter of realism. He insisted profoundly on the training of sketch drawing and the precision of perspectives. He strongly believed the first objective of art was realism and real life was the source of art. The other major contribution he made was his effort to improve Chinese traditional painting skill by integrating with that of the western classical realism. On the other hand, he also tried to use the elements of person emotions of Chinese paintings in his oil paintings. Similar to Li Shutong, (1880-1942) a master of poet, calligraphy and painting, Xu Beihong's oil paintings were full of Chinese characteristics though he used the traditional western painting techniques.

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Chinese and Western artists for natural landscapes oil painting have special perspectives, different from the East and the West view of the world and values. Practices on the presentation of the artist painting the outside did not; two different cultural systems of different breeds of modeling tools, space and color patterns.

The chief form of Chinese oil painting is a means of "lines." "Line" in China, described the artist's highly significant, and many complicated things, full of vitality only by a few of the "line" on it. Artists during the creation of the accumulation of a variety of different "lines Expressing his mind described the hearts of a unique landscape. Chinese landscape painting at home to rely on "line" to shape the uniqueness of rocks, forming different patterns, "line" as well as cracked rubbing. "Line" in his works is a very important element, "line" Application of a direct impact on the merits of a work, hence, China's pursuit of his life the poor artist full of vitality of the "line", many outstanding artists...

Leonardo da Vinci was born in the Italian town of Vinci in 1452. Leonardo lived during a time when people all over Europe were becoming interested in Art. This period of time was called the Renaissance.

Leonardo was a great artist, architect, inventor, scientist and mathematician. He kept a notebook of his drawings. All of his notes were written backwards. To read them you would have to hold them to a mirror.

Leonardo studied in Florence at the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio.

Leonardo's most famous painting is the Mona Lisa. She was the wife of a Florentine merchant.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first artists to make his paintings seem real. He gave the people in his paintings a feeling of movement and of being alive.

Leonardo always tried to make his paintings as perfect and close to nature as possible.

He died in France in 1519.

The S vres factory opened in the French village of the same name in 1756, becoming the pre-eminent European porcelain factory of the 18th century. This exhibition consists of about 300 elaborately painted and gilded pieces of Svres porcelain from the Royal Collection, which were largely assembled by George IV between 1783 and 1830 to create what is considered to be the finest collection of such porcelain in the world. Items on show include a set of three vases first bought by Marie Antoinette, a dinner service created at S vres for Louis XVI, and the Table of the Grand Commanders, which was given to George IV by Louis XVIII.

Painterwork accomplishes two things, namely the preservation and the coloration of the material painted. The compounds used for painting, taking the word as meaning a thin protective or decorative coat, are very numerous, including oil paint of many kinds, distemper, whitewash, tar; but the word paint is usually confined to a mixture of and pigment, together with other materials which possess properties necessary to enable the paint to dry hard and opaque. Oil paints are made up of four parts, the base, the vehicle, the solvent and the driers. Pigment may be added to these to obtain a paint of any desired color. There are several bases for oil paint, those most commonly used for building work being white lead, red lead, zinc white and oxide of iron.