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Heirich von Zugel is a well-known artist of Germany for his illustrative works of animals. His paintings are often smeary, just giving a sense of the scene and rest leaving on the viewer’s imagination. Here in the scene, a farmer is directing a herd of oxen into (or out of) a yard. Maybe it’s time for graze or they are returning from it. We can’t be so sure just by looking at it because there are not enough elements in the frame. What we can interpret is the time of the day and the herdsman simple life. Taking animals to the grassy plots, protecting them while they eat and safely take them back when they ate was the simple routine of any herdsman. Though, in-between […]
Valentine Zubiaurre was a Spanish painter in late 19th century. He was born deaf just like his brother unfortunately. The irony of their lives is that both were sons of a composer. In his early age, he began painting. He traveled foreign countries to nurture his skills. After acquiring enough experience and doing some outstanding works, he got the first medal of national exhibition of fine arts in 1917. This genre painting named ‘Boys Fishing’ was drawn in 1902. It is an oil-on-canvas painting. It shows a boy fishing in lake with another boy with same outfit standing right behind him. The woman in back is probably their mother with daughter standing beside. The way ascending in back is maybe leads to the village or the house […]
This is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by Fritz Zuber-Buhler, the famous artist of Switzerland, who later moved Paris for artistic glory. In his lifetime, he has done some great artworks, which got admiration from various cities in which he exhibited his artworks. Mainly, he drew women presenting carnally and small children with innocent and angelic forms. His every painting has some kind of similarity in form of delicacy and otherworldly beauty. It was like he had his own world in his paintings and every character he illustrated were coming out of the same imaginary world. He had a certain style of imagination, which was the mixture of real and mythological world. Here is another example of his beautiful artworks. Well, apparently there is no mythology […]




















