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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Loading...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 […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]
(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...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 […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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 […]