Claude Monet traveled Europe and made it to London in 1902-03. During his stay in London Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the British Parliament.
The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint, from Monet’s window overlooking the Thames. They are however painted at different times of the day and at different weather circumstances.
David Rockefeller, the famous philanthropist, decided to sell his first Abstract Expressionist painting, an influential work by Mark Rothko for an estimated $40 million.
With prices of Abstract Expressionist works going through the roof, Rockefeller has decided to auction off “White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose),” a 1950 Rothko oil painting canvas. The painting is a particularly sensuous example of Rothko’s abstract work during his most important years. It will be the star of the sale at Sotheby’s.
Rockefeller has owned the painting since 1960, when he bought it for less than $10,000. Rockefeller was urged to acquire the Rothko — with its luminous horizontal bands of color – the famous Mark Rothko style. The painting is now worth 4,000 times more then he first bought it, not a bad investment…
Rockefeller doesn’t really need the money, he has always been a great donator of many paintings especially for the Museum of Modern Art. Including but not limited to works by Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and Matisse.
You often see many paintings from the Renaissance as Nude paintings. Many Nude paintings are a direct result of the artist of the time’s experimentation. The artists tried to understand perspective and realistic forms. They were also trying to understand and map the human body on all its forms.
Most artists of the Neoclassicism found beauty in the idealized thoughts and artworks of ancient Romans and Greeks and wanted to recreate this.
Nude paintings came to the forefront in the Renaissance largely because the unclothed human figure represents a timeless ideal of humanity. That, at least, was the overarching rationale.
There were also great advances made in anatomical science at the time, so the understanding of how the body works mechanically was better understood and celebrated.
Once you get past these high-minded reasons, the final reason is that patrons, in other words people who buy paintings, are just like other people: They like to look at nudes; especially beautifully done nudes.
Chagall is considered one the greatest artists of the 20th century. His work is all but impossible to categorize. Some say Fauvism some say Cubism. He was an artist capable of such originality that to try to fit his work into a specific genre would demean the value and power of what he was able to achieve.
To celebrate the wonderful works of Chagall I have comprised a list of objects found in his works. Every one of these objects holds symbolic and spiritual meanings.
See for yourself what Chagall tried to convey in his great oil paintings.
After I researched Chagall symbolism it was cool to look back at his paintings and try and guess what was going through his mind when he painted them. Truly marvelous, truly glorious Marc Chagall paintings.
War has led to many artistic conceptions over the past few centuries, and war artists still paint today’s conflicts. But did you know that there’s a link between the art form of Cubism and the development of military camouflage?
It turns out that the first camouflage unit was set up by the French army in World War I, 1915 and comprised mainly of artists, who used Cubist techniques to hide equipment and to make uniforms less visible.
It “tells the story of how cubism inspired a new approach to military designs and uniforms in the 20th century,” says Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones.
The Cubism style appeared in European art just before World War I. Pablo Picasso destroyed perspective and turned appearances inside-out with this new style.
When war broke out, this new art gave birth to a military invention that still shapes our visual culture today. Soldiers who had been artists before the war started to experiment with fragmented patterns on field guns and uniforms. The patterns and colors were partially done for military purposes and partially served as an artistic retreat for the artists in the trenches as they faced death.
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