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In some stories the most vital moments aren’t filled with armies battling or acquiring the throne. In the deep look, vital moments in such stories are those which bear the possibility of eliminating the subsequent havoc happened and after which is crossed, there is no turning back. Greek mythological story of Oedipus has many such moments in his life. The direst one is represented in the current painting by the French painter. Oedipus’ prophecy of killing his father and marrying his own mother Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jacasta of Thebes. On his birth the king knew about the prophecy which stated that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his own mother. To eliminate such horrible possibilities, the king left […]

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French, Greek, Greek Mythology, King, Neoclassical, Oedipus, Sphinx

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Completed in 1824, The Sea of Ice or sometimes referred as The Wreck of Hope is a piece by the German painter Casper David Friedrich. It represents the accident of a ship which is drowning under the ice while the broken ice sheet by the accident has arisen upwards significantly. The top and bottom of the painting also resembles the popular color use of blue vs. orange, abundantly apparent in modern day art, films, posters and paintings. Subject The subject isn’t a random depiction of ice and ship-accident. The painting was made during the period when the expeditions to the north and south poles were in talks. Though, the attempts to a successful expedition are much older than the 19th century. The original title for […]

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German, Ice, Romanticism, Ship, Shipwreck

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Indian artists aren’t as much known as the western artist. Though, if we think about India one name comes in our mind, Raja Ravi Varma. One of the few 19th century Indian painter who had the caliber to stand alongside the top level western artists. Here is presented one of the best art works by Raja Ravi Varma. He was known, mostly, for depicting the scenes from either Ramayana or Mahabharata, two grand Indian epic poems, which are often equaled with Iliad and Odyssey by Homer. But, in reality, such comparisons are baseless. Subject of the current painting is taken from the Indian epic poem Ramayana. Literal meaning of Jatayu Vadham from Sanskrit is the killing of Jatayu. Story of Jatayu Vadha (The Killing of […]

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Bird, Epic, Epic Poem, Jatayu, killing, Ravana, Sita

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Suprematist Composition by Kazimir Malevich is a piece of suprematism by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. The most famous artworks from Russian art are the Bogatyrs by Viktor Vasnetsov and Morning in the Pine­tree Forest by Ivan Shishkin. But, when it comes to the most expensive painting from Russian art, surprisingly, it is the represented painting with $60,000,000 price tag on it. It was sold by Sotheby’s in 2008. The artist of the painting, Kazimir Malevich, was the founder of the Geometric abstraction during early 20th century when the avant-garde movement was on the rise. For his new art style, artist proclaimed, “Only with the disappearance of a habit of mind which sees in pictures little corners of nature, madonnas and shameless Venuses, shall we witness […]

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Avant-garde, Expensive, Famous, Geometric abstraction, Rectangle, Russian, Square, Suprematist, Ukrainian

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Sometimes a simple looking painting with plain objects could have deep meanings as artist might have intended to deliver the meaning with secret or open symbolism. Such symbolism becomes the center of the talk in any painting (most famously The Last Supper, which, allegedly, holds many symbolic meanings included by Leonardo da Vinci). From the classical era of arts, things, people and objects have been used to represent more than just the physical resemblance of any particular object. We have started a new series called “Symbolism in Art” to bring out the most unknown and forgotten use of symbolism of objects in arts. The first part is of mixed objects which is followed by symbolism in still life paintings. It will change the way you […]

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This painting includes a total of 112 Natherlandish proverbs in a single scene. The proverbs are taken literally. For instance, “To crap on the world” is literally represented as a person crapping on a globe. The depiction is on the left corner of the picture where a man in red clothes is coming out of a window. Artist of the Flemish renaissance from 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was known for similar works, which included The Seven Deadly Sins, The Months, Big Fish Eats Little Fish and The Blind leading the Blind.   Pieter Bruegel the younger, the artist’s son had depicted more than 20 versions of the paintings. Here is one of them.

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Devil, Dutch, Fish, Flemish, Flemish Renaissance, Fool, Man, People, Pig, Sheep, Snake, Village, Woman

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1. Iconography In any painting, the process of identifying people and things and also understanding the symbolic use of each object is collectively called as iconography of a painting. Any individual painting’s iconography is, obviously, very important to find out the included people’s identity and the intentions of object’s use in the scene. It also helps to understand the people and society’s beliefs during any contemporary times. Iconography isn’t only about the naming of characters and things. Apart from the basic identifications of characters and things, iconography is much more about finding out the symbolic meanings of things, the hidden symbolism of the art if the artists included something like that and finding out the connection of the painting with other historical things which relates […]

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The Titan’s Goblet by American artist Thomas Cole is a romantic landscape painting which combines the elements of reality and fiction into one and creates a fictional landscape with very conveying representation. It was made in 1833. The composition The setting of the landscape is regular with mountain ranges, setting sun, a river (or lake) and big bright sky of evening in the background. It is an aerial view of the scene. Until this, it is a regular landscape painting. But, the point of interest in it makes the whole difference moving it from the category of landscape to the sub-categories of romantic and fictional landscape. A big, made out of rock goblet stands slightly on the right side of the painting. It is full […]

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American, English, Goblet, Greek Mythology, Romanticism, Sunset

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If this sentence is true, ““An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” Sometimes celebrities just tell stuff which they don’t mean or don’t realize what it could mean to their followers. The sentence above was told by Andy Warhol. I don’t know what he was thinking while saying this, but it clearly denounces the importance of art in the modern world. It hugely neglects the benefits we derive from art. I believe there are three types of impacts art makes on a society: Financial, Social/cultural and Individual. And each one of it will make it clear that art has equal importance in any society as much as businesses or governments. Financial According to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and […]

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This week was predominated with the major buying and selling of the art-pieces including a painting of Andy Warhol. The major auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christy made more than $400 million in a single week. Also, there has been conducted a research in which a DNA test might confirm the identity of Mona Lisa. Let’s have a look at the numbers generated by paintings this week. The much known painter Andy Warhol made paintings with such unique styles which generated a totally new style in arts – pop art. He made many big paintings and even after his death, his art-works are still immensely popular. The latest proof is his painting, of Chinese Chairman Mao. This painting has fetched 7.6 million pounds in a […]

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