ArtCorner

The fashion community, Polyvore, which is a site that lets you mix and match products from any online store to create outfits or any kind of collage, created a great collage that focuses around the Amadeo Modigliani painting – Woman with a Hat:

I love the way this collage was mixed and matched with fashion items and all to emphasize the color scheme that the oil painting can go oh so well with…

In 1937 During the Spanish Civil War; the Fascists devastated the peaceful town of Guernica with aerial bombings executed by the Natzi Luftwaffe.

Picasso’s painting the Guernica, was his reaction to the tragedy.

The following is an amazingly detailed 3D representation of the painting, an amazing work by Lena Gieseke:

I had the pleasure of visiting the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid this summer, the home of the Guernica. It was one of the most amazing and heartfelt encounters I have ever had with a piece of art. The massive scale and the vivid terror the painting entrenches over you are hard to describe.

The sculpture you are looking drew ridicule and shame when the artist first exhibited it in 1913… nearly a century later, symphony number one is considered a pivotal example of abstract sculpture…

Your immediate reaction might be to dismiss this work, just as your boss would dismiss you after what anyone would agree was an honest mistake.

But if you allow yourself to really look at this piece you will see that it awakens all senses simultaneously…

The artist who was so experimental and ahead of his time, had a lingering hope that someone, someday would feel what he felt, and see what he saw.

This video is true of all great artists, who attempt to sculpt not just with clay or paint on canvas, but more than anything, help us shape the minds and thoughts of the future…

As I march through the many museums and cultural centers around the world, I encounter numerous works of art. These works carved a certain nitch in art history and could only be found on museum walls.

These exquisite oil paintings might be very expensive; they might be prestigious and even meaningful to many. The art pieces have historic significance, and they may actually be really beautiful. However, what I find interesting is how certain oil paintings just never seem to go out of style. Not only are they priceless and have a deep and profound meaning, but somehow they take us on a journey and become a part of all of our lives.

I wanted to reflect on some of the timeless pieces that seem to have lasted the test of time and are as pertinent as they were when they were first conceived. Not to mention how popular they are today compared to more than a 100 years ago.

The first oil painting is Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry night. Considered by many the most popular painting in the world, it has influenced the western world for the past 130 years. This painting has become ubiquitous in our surroundings. You can find it anywhere from calendars, coasters and iPhone screensavers. It’s pretty amazing how this oil painting, by an artist who sold one single work of art in his lifetime, is so popular these days. A service conducted found Van Gogh’s Starry Night as the most popular print among college students?! So, how does Van Gogh still appeal to the most trend setting and approached market in the United States? That is the question that keeps me up at night…

Another oil painting that has become an icon that has been apart of the modern world for over 120 years is The Scream by Edvard Much. This gray, expressionist Norwegian painter created this masterpiece in the late 1800’s, and yet his Scream still echoes as it symbolizes the most horrific emotions captured on canvas ever. You can find The Scream on T-Shirts, Google logos and even in a Halloween Simpson Special!!! It amazes me that after so many years of classic horror films and the evolution of the human thought this is our best attempt to capture an emotion that is so vivid and memorable?! With that said, I get terrified every time I stare at it.

These are just two examples of many paintings that have withstood the test of time. So, what’s the recipe for success? How can you foresee the next Van Gogh Starry Night? How can we look at works by an artist and proclaim him as the next Claude Monet? These questions probably don’t have a single right answer, we can only hope that art will keep advancing and that new contemporary will join the ranks of the greats that have escaped the trenches of the canvas and made their way to our lives and have become apart of our culture, emotions and thought.