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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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Mona Lisa, a name which is heard by almost everyone who have heard Leonardo da Vinci’s name. On internet they have become synonyms to each-other. Just like Einstein and E=mc­­2­­. Mona Lisa is the most visited painting on the earth. Yearly, 6 million people visits the Louvre and how many of them, do you think, would skip Mona Lisa? Many would have the Mona Lisa as the reason to visit the Museum in Paris. The reason of the fame is its secret smile. They say the smile is suspicious and no one understands if the woman in the painting is smiling or not. Researchers say Leonardo used a special technic called Sfumato to make the smile suspicious. Well, maybe, he deliberately used the technique. But […]

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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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We all know about the numerous styles and types any single art can bear. Similarly in painting, there is a ton of types if we also include the all the sub-types. If we look at the Renaissance Era (starting from 14th century), a type of painting which sparkles in our mind immediately is the Baroque Style. It was a new movement in, which left the old, static, boring and lifeless illustrations of people and landscapes behind. The Baroque style illustrated scenes and characters in emphasized way, in more dramatic way. It was considered as expression with absolutism. If you remember any paintings of the renaissance which describes any important mythological or historical event, you will surely find an utterance in paintings, which was not found […]

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Edvard munch was a Norwegian painter who was known for his symbolism and expressionism in his paintings. He influenced the art-word in his life time mainly Germany. The most famous work he produced is the expressionist painting The Scream. Munch was born to Laura Bjolstad and Christian Munch. Initially, Munch studied in a technical college getting good marks in physics, chemistry and math. Here he learned the scaled and perspective drawing. But, as the painting was his inner passion, he left the college for painting. His father didn’t appreciate it. He thought painting is an unholy trade. Though, going against every one’s wish he commenced to pursue his dream to become a painter by enrolling at Royal School of Art and Design of Christiana. At […]

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Capitoline museums are settled on the Capitoline hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome. After the groups of people lived on those hills started to communicate and played a series of religious games, the bonding between those groups became stronger. When the valleys between the hills were turned into markets, the whole area slowly grew as a united place with having different groups living and reciprocating with each other. After the hills conjoined more like a city, they were protected by the famous 11 km long Servian wall. These high walls are still there around the ancient city of Rome. On this historical hill, in 1471, world’s first public museum was founded by Pope Sixtus IV. Pope donated some valuable ancient bronze sculptures to […]

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After the thousands of years of iteration the art of painting has developed in many types. Every type has its own method, purpose and style. Here we are going to talk about the Landscape Painting. What is it? Landscape painting is one of the prominent types of painting. As it name tells, it is depiction of natural scenery like mountains, sky, rivers, trees, etc. in well-composed manner. In most cases, sky and weather are the key factors. Artist tries to create a mood or theme by these two elements. Like, red blooded sky and gloomy environment in well-known painting The Scream, generates an awful feel. While by using these two elements, Jacob van Ruisdael has created very beautiful scenery in his work The Windmill at […]

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Donald Baechler is an American artist born in 1956 in Hartford, Connecticut. Following his passion, he attended Maryland Institute college of Art and Cooper Union. After that, for further studies he went to Frankfurt, Germany with his German friends whom he met at the Cooper Union. New York Times and Art in America have claimed his paintings as echoes of some former artists like Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Otterness and Rodin. At first glance, his style of work looks more childish and scattered in different things. More like different things gathered and put at one place. Here are two examples of his paintings: The most of his paintings consists one central image of a thing and the background would always be a clutter of different things. […]

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In the beginning, there were two types of museums, private and public. The private museums were just collections of antiquities and artifacts by a random personality and were not allowed to general public. It was kind of private property. One famous example is Princess Eniggaldi’s museums, which is considered by historians as the world’s first private museum existed around 530 BC. But it was not open for general public. Then, when did the museums like today commenced? The museums available for public emerged much later than Ennigaldi’s. It was in 1471 when the Pope Sixtus II donated some ancient artifacts to the public of Rome. It was the first public museum named as Capitoline Museums. Right after that, the Vatican museums were established in 1506 […]

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