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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Modern time filled with high-budget movies with special effects, we often forget that imagination and fantasy was not invented in modern time. It was sprouted in a human mind as soon as a human started ‘rational thinking’. Fantasy is a state where everything is possible and everything is allowed. When an artist mixes his fantasy and reality, he conjures up something which is totally unprecedented. Here, I see such combination of reality and fantasy by the Welsh painter Richard Wilson. Here, as the title says, is a capriccio painting bringing two different places at one. In art, capriccio means a painting which consist the combination of fictional or real architecture and buildings. Thus, they are partly real but don’t exist in real world as a […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This calm, serene and restful painting of a river landscape is a perfect destination for a peace and nature lover to live in. on the term that you would have to be skilled in breeding cattle and sheep. That remains as your only way of earning out there. On the left there is a little yard telling us that the animals are the possession of a herdsman living there. The boat in the far background indicates the inhabitant’s connection with other people. Looking at the panting’s date we can assume that many people lived in such beautiful conditions back then when the industrial boom was on its first step. People were more relied on farming and breeding the cattle and sheep and selling the produces. […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Belgian artist Cornelis van Leemputten is a good example of self-taught artists. Though, he attended an art academy in his later years, after setting a good reputation as a painter, he mainly learned, produced and was known as an excellent self-taught artist. That shows his deep desire for the art. Artist’s main theme through-out his career was mainly focused on landscapes which included sheep and such shepherds. That’s a very rare and unique subject to select as the only main theme, but he mastered the theme and not to mention, that it is more difficult to portray an active sheep than a person who will sit as he is asked for. This painting shows a boy in blue shirt and a round hat posing with […]