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An inspiration for many, this painting has become Van Gogh’s most famous art work of all time as it has appeared in many TV shows and a movie. Van Gogh painted it while being in a room of Saint Remy’s. Nevertheless, as many people believe that it is literal depiction of the outer view from the windows of the room, the truth is Van Gogh did many displacement and add-ons to the scene to make it more perfect. The village and the blue sky are true to the real nature and there is no mention about any changes (as he did change the location of a constellation in his previous painting Starry Night over the Rhone). But the cypress is totally added and the mountain […]

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cypresses, Dutch, Famous, Moon, Moonlight, Night, Night Sky, Post-impressionist, Stars, Village

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Surfing through the glorious history of great and memorable Italian, French, German and American painters, the eastern painters hardly gets their name in an article or in any speech until it’s especially attributed to them. This negligence may have occurred because of the lack of interest and most notably the lack of the historical evidences to know more about them. Truth is, eastern artists are not as much as known or sought to be known even by the art-geeks in general.  Many great names of them likely have forgotten or vanished from the history. Though, thanks to some documentations and references, there are still some names remained to be remembered form the south Asia (mainly from India). Names like Govardhan, Bichitr, Abd-al-Samad, Miskin  Kesu Das, […]

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Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin was born in the city of Basel, Switzerland on 16th October 1827. He was a revered symbolist painter depicting fantasy and mythological allegories on canvas. His study of art began in Dusseldorf Academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a German landscape artist who himself was much respected among the other artists. Arnold’s study under this adept artist started to pay off as he learned the basics and the fundamental skills a painter requires. Seeing his promising artistic abilities, Schirmer sent him Antwerp and Brussels to learn about the works of Flemish and Dutch artists. After that he went to Paris visiting the Louvre. The works he saw there impressed him deeply as he stayed there for a while working on several paintings. […]

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‘Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother’s portrait.’ “The only difference between me and a madman is I’m not mad.” These are some quotes by this much-famed artist. It is very hard to believe on the second line after seeing the photographs. I mean, who would pose in front of camera like this when you know that you are a famous personality and will be seen everywhere. And what about the first quotation? Does it make any sense? Even after he said that ‘I am not strange, I am just not normal’, it will take some courage to consider him not strange after reading the full article. Imprisonment and his thoughts upon the scene Dali was born on 11th May 1904 in Figueres, Spain in […]

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Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was a very miserable artist, who suffered from the cruelty of life. During his times, he drew thousands of paintings, but was able to sell only one (The Red Vineyard for 400 francs) and after his suicide (allegedly thinking himself as a failure) at the age of 37 the time and value of his art has changed in dramatic and drastic way. Few of his paintings have broken the record for highest selling paintings in history from time to time. And as his most of the paintings have found their homes and have become scarce to own, the prices are skyrocketing in any circumstances. Though, it is not only about the fame and the money which is being stirred by […]

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The lovely lady discerning into unknown is depicted by an award-winner French painter Charles Amable Lenoir who got the Prix de Rome twice during his career. The current picture portrays a lady deeply thinking about something. We never know what her thoughts are circling around. She could be thinking about her past, future, present or even what she should wear next day. I mean, it is a little mystery that artist have implied in the painting. We can’t get to know about the insight of mind. The facial expressions are deep and convince us quickly about her imagination. But, lack of defining lines on the face makes the mystery rolling on. It’s just like meditation. You never know what a meditator thinks about all the […]

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Beautiful, Beautiful Woman, French, Meditation, Realist, Seated Woman, Sitting Woman

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In history full of great artists, Benvenuto Cellini is not as much celebrated as others even though his spectacular life, which he claims in his Autobiography to be a real thing. Even historians are not sure that if they should accept the Cellini’s claims of his one in a gazillion kind of life. But, here we have gathered some of his outstanding incidents about his life, which he quotes to be true. Miraculous Childhood – Vicious Scorpion and Mythical Salamander Benvenuto was born in Florence on 3rd November, 1500. His family was expecting a girl but instead on his arrival every appraised god and in return to thank Benvenuto’s father called him he was very much obliged to god and is welcoming his son. The […]

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Futurism began in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published Futurist Manifesto in the popular Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell’Emilia and then in a French newspaper Le Figero. It declared ten articles about the emphasizing the speed, machines, violence, youth of modern times. It was phenomenon emerged firstly in Italy and by the release of Manifesto; many like-minded artists joined the community later on. Umberto Boccioni was one of the very first to follow the movement. Today, he is remembered as a key-figure to flourish the movement of futurism. Convergence of the Like-minded Umberto Boccioni was born in 1882 in the land of Reggio Calabria. At early age, he was more devoted to drawings instead of paintings. After studying art at the Scuola Libera del Nudo in […]

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Simone Martini was an Italian painter born in Siena in 1284. Throughout his life, he contributed majorly in gothic style paintings.  He is thought to be the one of the earliest gothic artists. He produced many paintings and frescoes. His main style which differentiates his work from the rest is the spatial depictions of scenes and the use of bright, reflective gold texture. In his major works like The Annunciation, Saint Catherine of Alexandria Polyptych, Virgin and Child with Saints and Christ Discovered in the Temple, he has used the reflective golden texture to emphasize the painting with an attractive way. Additionally, in his time pigments like gold and ultramarine were very costly and the use of those colors were regarded as a reflection of […]

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Claude Monet (self-portrait on the right) is very popular name in the impressionist artists as his painting ‘Impression, Sunrise’ was the cue card for the term impressionism and the new style, in which there were no boundaries of the real world. In a sense he was painting things in a way in which the human see the world, not the painting about what the actual things are out there. Establishing this new style may have given him some setbacks but ultimately the new style became the reward of his life-long treasure-hunt for besting his own art. Some revolutions take time to be understood and accepted by people, but when they do they get phenomenon. The same happened with Monet’s new style of impressionism. But before […]

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