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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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In The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, there are total of 13 apparent figures apparent – if we ignore the controversial and sometimes conjured up figures in the painting. Twelve of them are the 12 apostles of Jesus while the central figure is Jesus Christ himself. The 12 apostles are grouped into the team of 3. Thus, total of 4 groups of Apostles are there. In the second group made of Judas, Peter and John is where the most controversies circles around. It holds the two characters that had radical impacts on Jesus’s life. As everybody knows, Judas was the reason to make this supper of Jesus the last supper. Here is brief information on each of the characters: 1. Bartholomew  Born and died: […]

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Famous, Jesus Christ, Last Supper, Religious

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Jargons of the art-world part 5 brings ten more technical terms from the art world including the important ones like the golden ratio, tondo, pyramidal composition and Vincent van Gogh’s four square technique. 1. L’art pompier During the late 19th century, in French art schools and academies, most of the artists followed the then-popular art-style academism. But, there were some modern or artists with new mentalities who refused to paint only in the conventional academism or impressionism. They started to invent their own styles. By the other academic artists, they were started to be called as pompier to shun them down. The literal meaning of the term was Fireman and was used pejoratively towards the small bunch of painters who tried “something new”. There happened to be lots […]

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There are total of 58 human figures, 2 main sculptures and 2 books in the painting. Though, out of them only 21 figures are totally or partially identified. Both sculptures and books are recognized correctly. Moreover, the artist Raphael has painted the ancient geniuses in form of his contemporary artists who were considered the greatest minds of renaissance time. The names written in bracket are those contemporary artists. Here is a list of all the recognized figures in the painting: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) : Greek philosopher, mathematician, Student of Socrates, founder of Academy in Athens during 424/423 BC – 348/347 BC Aristotle (Giuliano da Sangallo) : Greek philosopher, Student of Plato, Scientist, Thinker, Teacher of Alexander the Great, Writer of Nicomachean Ethics during 384-322 […]

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Alexander the Great, Apollo, Aristotle, Athena, Euclid, Famous, Fresco, Historical Figures, Plato, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Socrates, Who is Who

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Today, books and painters have closer relations than before. But, in the times of middle age when no one knew what’s the position of earth in the universe, people used to have books made with gold and jewel or the books listing mythological beasts and also believing those beasts to be real. There also happened to be the world’s first art-history book written in 16th century. Read further, to see how artists used their art beyond the regular oil and canvas. 1. Bestiary Bestiary is a compliment of the different animals and beasts with detailed description as well as with a fine illustration of the beast with some moral message at the end. It could have totally imaginary animals from myths, folklore and fairy-tales (Unicorn, […]

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History has seen many eccentric artists like Salvador Dali and Man Ray. They were different from the rest and their art was also particularly different from others. Jackson Pollock was such artist. Though, he wasn’t known for his person traits as his behavior was normal. But, his popularity was due to his new type of unusual abstract paintings. Pollock was known for using unconventional tools for painting. He would mostly use anything lying around him. Trowels, sticks and knives were his main tools in many of his paintings. He called such use as “a natural growth out of a need”. The reason was simple. He didn’t need the conventional brushes or easels for his newly invented unique style of Drip Painting. He would just lay […]

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Ilya Repin, a painter who enjoyed the similar fame in Russian painting to the Leo Tolstoy in Literature is the very well-known figure in entire Russian artist community. He is respected, looked upon and followed by many new artists. His roots are found in the small town of Chuguyev where he was born on 5th August, 1844. The small child didn’t know what he was going to become until the age of 12. In 1856, he became the pupil of Ivan Bunakov and learned the basics of the art he would live for.  The initial learning and attending art schools, academies is a routine for an artist, expect the artist is a self-taught. When he grew up and learned how to handle the brush on […]

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1. Camera Obscura Camera Obscura (dark room) could be said to be the earliest version of photography or capturing-image-on-a-surface to be more precise. The technic of the camera Obscura is the most primitive to capture a scene on a surface. In the method, a flat surface contains a hole in it, through which the light enters and falls on another surface. The image received on the surface is upside down. It could be reversed by a mirror and its precision could be traced. The colors and the details of the scene stay intact. This is the earliest type of image-capturing technique, which grew into being a photography technique and ultimately, in modern world, it is the base of every Camera in the world. Its relation […]

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Third installment of the Jargons of the Art-world brings you 10 more technical terms used in the artistic communities. 1. Tronie Tronies were the output of the Dutch Golden Age. Before the Golden Age (17th century) in Netherlands, people were afraid of representing themselves in the portraits. The social pressure made them stand for the portraits in very steady, rigid and emotionless ways. When this barrier was broken in Dutch Golden Age, the fear and restriction were gone and artists began to captures the most hidden emotions of people on their canvases. The subject-person’s importance in the society didn’t matter much. The reason is that they were determined to capture the unique and natural expressions. And this new genre of portraits focusing on the human […]

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