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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It is always an amusement to see how the skilled artist picks everyday items and turns them in such a beauty with their skill that we can’t resist ourselves saying ‘that’s something unique’. In this oil-on-canvas painting, there are just some old newspapers and books decked up so randomly, it almost looks like a garbage-pile at the first glance. But then as we look closely, we slowly realize the fact that it’s some extraordinary art-work achieved by a huge effort. The more you observe, the more you understand about every detail artist put into it to create the realistic aura. Strokes of the brushes are used intelligently showing the perfect textures of objects. Like, we can assume the cloth under the pile is made out […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...The famous Spanish painter Franscisco de Zurbaran has drawn some greatest pictures in the history. In his oeuvre, the meditating saint Francis is a major subject. He has drawn various portrait of this saintly personality. A quick glance at the current representation of Saint Francis raises a question in my mind. Why a skull is included in there? And as I thought about the question further, I had some speculations. St Francis kneeling on ground with a skull in his hand, illustrates the deep and cryptic meanings of life and death. Maybe hinting the fact that death and life is contemporary to each other. Artist tried to portray the fact by making St. Francis the representative of life and the skull, of death. Those both […]