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The artist of romanticism, Eugène Delacroix was a French painter, born on 26th April, 1798. He is mainly known for his romanticism in his paintings, as well the excellent use of colors. He painted some great artworks, some of which made ripples in the contemporary times, while some got poorly criticized. Though, up and downs are the real flow of life and no artist has ever experience an undisturbed fame in their lives. He was no exception. But, maybe the luck was not all that furious upon him, as in his career, he didn’t have any steep downfalls. Even in the later years, he was getting good commissions from the patrons. He is considered as one of the artists who were born in between the line […]

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After the Baroque style flourished in Europe in 17th century, there came the style of Rococo following the Baroque. That’s why Rococo is sometimes called as the Late Baroque. The main difference between both styles was that Baroque style still had some influence of religious subjects in it and was a grand depiction of scenes, whereas the rococo was the freedom from those rules. Rococo artists started to draw apart from the regular stuff which was drawn at the time. They started to draw themselves, the surroundings and the general life in more ornamental and stylized manner than the baroque’s somewhat stick-to-the-fact style. This freedom attracted many artists during the time and at the top of that list we consider François Boucher from France, who has […]

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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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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Or just Ingres as he is called today was a prolific artist of the late 18th century from born in Montauban, France; born to Jean Marie Joseph Ingres, a skillful trader of arts and Anne Moulet, a simple house wife. His father’s professional involvement in arts may have received the encouragement and the idol environment to pursue after the artistic career. Flourishing in favorable conditions, Ingres already produced his first art-piece in 1789 at the age of nine, which was a drawing of an antique piece. Fortunately, there was no interference to his artistic progress. Though, his education did get big disturbance by the French Revolution. Actually, he had to end his conventional education in 1791, right after two years of […]

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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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Every great artist who enjoyed the richness and fame during their time doesn’t necessarily remain famous in later times. Actually, most of the artists become anonymous in general life after certain period. Though, they stay in the history-books, museums or in the people’s mind who really dig deep to know about them. Jean Francois Millet was such a French artist who got revered even by the other prominent contemporary artists of his time. He was one of the founders of the Barbizon school in France, where he- with other founders- emphasized the art-movement of Realism. Though, he is an artist with some facts that after knowing them you would understand more about the background happenings among the artists in the art-world. Expertizing the art Millet […]

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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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Nicknamed as Fou Rou (Crazy Man) in locality, Vincent van Gogh was one of the six children of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus and born in Groot Zundert, Netherlands on 30th march 1853. He was the oldest child of the family and named after his grandfather and a stillborn brother before him. In his later life he gathered mental illnesses like schizophrenia and clinical depression, due to which is suspected, he once cut off a portion of his left ear and ultimately in 1890, came to his death by a gun shot on his chest. His work encompasses different types like landscapes, portraits, still-life and some gloomy portrayals like head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette maybe referring to his mental depression […]

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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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