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Artist.: Gustav Klimt, in the photo below by Anton Josef Trčka, (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
– Title: Philosophy (Final State)
– Date: 1899 – 1907
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 300 × 430 cm.
– Current location: destroyed in 1945.
This work is in the public domain.
Artist.: Mark Rothko, in the photo below by James Scott, (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists.
– Title: No. 3/No. 13
– Date: 1949
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 216.5 × 164.8 cm.
– Current location: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
– Credit: bequest of Mrs. Mark Rothko through The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
© Mark Rothko.
About: Magenta, Black, Green on Orange follows a compositional structure that Rothko explored for twenty–three years beginning in 1947. Narrowly separated, rectangular blocks of color hover in a column against a colored ground. Their edges are soft and irregular, so that when Rothko uses closely related tones, the rectangles sometimes seem barely to coalesce out of the ground, concentrations of its substance. The green bar in Magenta, Black, Green on Orange, on the other hand, appears to vibrate against the orange around it, creating an optical flicker. In fact the canvas is full of gentle movement, as blocks emerge and recede, and surfaces breathe. Just as edges tend to fade and blur, colors are never completely flat, and the faint unevenness in their intensity, besides hinting at the artist's process in layering wash on wash, mobilizes an ambiguity, a shifting between solidity and impalpable depth.
The sense of boundlessness in Rothko's paintings has been related to the aesthetics of the sublime, an implicit or explicit concern of a number of his fellow painters in the New York School. In fact, the remarkable color in his paintings was for him only a means to a larger end: "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom," he said. "If you... are moved only by... color relationships, then you miss the point."
Publication excerpt from The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 196
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Manifesto, 1943
1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
2. This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
5. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
6. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.
7. We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Mark Rothko, with Adolph Gottlieb. (In response to a negative review by the New York Times)
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They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Velasquez left us his idea of the people of his epoch. Undoubtedly they were different from what he painted them, but we cannot conceive a Philip IV in any other way than the one Velasquez painted... |Paris 1923|
— Pablo Picasso
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 312
Artist: Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. Their satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. Banksy's works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
– Title: Lovers
– Date: 16 June 2006, 19:18
– Camera location: 51° 27′ 12.18″ N, 2° 36′ 04.23″ W
– Photographed by Richard Cocks
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Obs.: This work prominently depicts a work of illegal graffiti which might not be in the public domain and has not been released under a free license.
Description: close up shot of graffitti by Banksy near Park St. in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Artist.: Utagawa Hiroshige, in the memorial portrait below (1797 – October 12, 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
– Title: Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"
– Date: november, 1857
– Medium: color woodcut
– Height: 350 mm. Width: 241 mm.
– Current location: the Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art from the acclaimed Dodge Collection, American art from the 18th century to the present, and six centuries of European art with a particular focus on 19th-century French art.
This work is in the public domain.
Artist.: Thomas Eakins, in the self-portrait below, (25 July, 1844 – 25 June, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
– Title: The Dancing Lesson (Negro Boy Dancing)
– Date: 1878
– Medium: Watercolor on off-white wove paper.
– Dimensions: 45.9 × 57.3 cm.
– Current location: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries.
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#Fun_Facts about Salvador Dalí.
He Believed He Was The Reincarnation Of His Dead Brother
One possible explanation for Dali's bizarre lifestyle may lie with his peculiar childhood. Before Dali was born, his mother had given birth to another child, also called Salvador Dali. Unfortunately, the first Salvador died of a stomach infection at just 22 months old. Nine months later, the second Salvador Dali was born. Since the second Salvador heavily resembled the first and had been born exactly nine months later, his parents began to harbor a suspicion that he was actually their dead child reborn. When Dali was five, his parents took him to the first Salvador's grave and informed him of their belief that he was the reincarnation of his own dead brother. This had a huge psychological effect on Dali - much of his later work would contain allusions to the dead child he believed was the best part of him. The traumatic experience may also help explain some bizarre events that happened that same year...
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Artist.: Ivan Aivazovsky, in the self-portrait below, (July 29, 1817 – May 2, 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, Aivazovsky was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
– Original title: Бриг Меркурий после победы над двумя турецкими судами встречается с русской эскадрой
– Date: 1848
– Medium: oil on canvas.
– Dimensions: 123.5 × 190 cm.
– Current location: The State Russian Museum, formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg. It is also one of the largest museums in the country.
This work is in the public domain.
Artist.: Fabiano Millani, in the photo below, (June 27, 1981) was born in São Paulo, but he was raised in Rio Grande do Sul. Millani began his early career in 1997, when he took a course in artistic drawings with Edegar Cavalheiro. Such experience drove him forward his persistent search
for realism.
– Original title: Lembranças
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 60 x 70 cm.
© Fabiano Millani.
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Artist.: van Gogh, in the self-portrait below, (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
– Title: The old church tower at Nuenen (`The peasants' churchyard')
– Date: May 1885 – June 1885
– Medium: oil on canvas.
– Dimensions: 65 x 80 cm.
– Current location: The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw.
This work is in the public domain.
About this work: Van Gogh lived near this ruined church tower in Nuenen, in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The tower had remained standing when the church collapsed a century earlier, but at the time of this painting it was being demolished. The steeple is already gone.
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent explained what he wanted this painting to express. He saw the dilapidated church tower as a symbol of the ephemeral nature of religion. In his eyes, it formed a stark contrast with the country graveyard next to it. There, farmers lay buried in the same soil they once had tilled. This showed that their lives were rooted in the eternal truths of death and rebirth.
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Artist.: Cândido Portinari, in the photo below, (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was one of the most important brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. Portinari painted more than five thousand canvases, from small sketches to monumental works such as the Guerra e Paz panels, which were donated to the United Nations Headquarters in 1956. Portinari developed a strong social preoccupation throughout his oeuvre and maintained an active life in the Brazilian cultural and political worlds.
Title: Discovery of the Land
Date: 1941
Current location: The Library of Congress ("LOC") is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; The Library of Congress claims to be the largest library in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages.
This work is in the public domain.
Description: preparatory drawing for "Discovery of the Land" mural, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. The mural depicts the discovery of the Americas but without specifically representing either the Portuguese under Cabral who came to Brazil or the Spaniards under Columbus.
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Artist.: Filipp Malyavin, in the sel-portrait below of 1927, (October 22, 1869 – December 23, 1940) was a Russian painter and draftsman. Trained in icon-painting as well as having studied under the great Russian realist painter Ilya Repin, Malyavin is unusual among the Russian artists of the time for having a peasant background. It is possibly due to this that his paintings often depict peasant life, and his most famous work, Whirlwind, shows peasant women dancing.
Origianl title: Вихрь (Whirlwind)
Date: 1906
Medium: oil on canvas.
Height: 74 cm. Width: 120 cm.
Current location: The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
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Artist.: Almada Negreiros, in the "futuristic" photo below, (April 7, 1893 – June 15, 1970) always called himself a futurist artist, inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and other modern artists; however his style is wider, and does not fit easily into a category. Adding to this modern approach his works also revealed a decorative and arabesque richness, and sometimes a geometrical abstraction. His public art was often politically engaged. Many of his paintings and drawings show common people in daily affairs or attitudes usual in socialist art. His work as a visual artist extended to tapestry, printmaking, theater and ballet scenography. An important part of his artistic production was literary. Almada Negreiros wrote novels, poems, playwrights, essays and manifests that were, in his lifetime, published in books, magazines, newspapers or even low-cost booklets and flyers.
Original title: Retrato de Fernando Pessoa
Date: 1954
Medium: oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 200 x 200 cm.
Current location: Casa Fernando Pessoa is a cultural center in Campo de Ourique of Lisbon, Portugal.
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© José de Almada Negreiros.
About this work: Portrait of Fernando Pessoa Retrato de Fernando Pessoa, painted by José de Almada Negreiros in 1954 for the Os Irmãos Unidos restaurante, a meeting point for Almada and other modernists and Orpheu artists. The portrait was auctioned in 1970 – the bidding base being 50.000$00 (€250,00) escudos and being sold by 1.300.000$00 (€6500,00 approx.) –and offered to Lisbon’s municipality by Jorge de Brito. The oeuvre is on exhibition at Casa Fernando Pessoa, a municipal venue, since its opening in 1993.
In 1964, a new painting was commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to Almada Negreiros and therefore a second Portrait of Fernando Pessoa was painted. This new work replicates the first one with exactitude although as if seen through a looking glass. This other work is part of the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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Artist.: Giorgio de Chirico, in the photo below by Carl Van Vechten, (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.
– Title: The Seer
– Date: 1914 – 1915 (Paris: winter)
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 89.6 × 70.1 cm.
– Current location: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
– Credit: James Thrall Soby Bequest.
© Giorgio de Chirico.
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"To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream."
as quoted in Letters of the great artists — from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 231
Artist.: Edvard Munch, in the photo below by Anders Wilse, (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his best known works is The Scream — of 1893.
– Title: Separation
– Date: 1896
– Medium: oil on canvas.
– Dimensions: 96 × 127 cm.
– Current location: Munch Museum is an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The museum was financed from the profits generated by the Oslo municipal cinemas and opened its doors in 1963 to commemorate what would have been Munch's 100th birthday.
This work is in the public domain.
About: over and over again in his pictures of the middle 1890s Munch used variations of the same images — the column of light on the sea, the blonde girl on the beach, the lustful woman in red, the older woman in black, the unhappy man, etc. — juggling them in various combinations to symbolize different human conditions and relations. Here he illustrates the man's sorrow at parting from his love — the end of the story began in The Kiss (this artwork soon in the PC). As in other cases, the picture consists of two components, the objective in the foreground, in which the protagonist may be either frontal and active, as here, or in profile and contemplative, and the subjective in the background, the image of the past in his or her mind's eye. The lovelorn man appears about to move forward, into the future, but his path is blocked by the crimson plant, again possibly intended as a mandrake, with its love and death symbolism. Moreover the girl's long hair floats across into his world and caresses his head, tying him to his vision, allowing him no escape from his memory. By means of linear fusion the girl's flowing curves are assimilated into the flat, art nouveau pattern of the shoreline, creating a unified and feminized vision of the past. The man's figure, on the other hand, with its black silhouette and more circumstantial contours, unites with the bloody plant to form a more articulated pattern.
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"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
— In his text (1889) 'Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud' - also known as 'The St. Cloud Manifesto'
Artist.: Albert Marquet, in the photo below, (March 27, 1875 – June 14, 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.
– Title: Port of Marseilles
– Date: 1916
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 650h × 810w mm.
– Current location: the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan.
This work is in the public domain.
Artist.: Albrecht Dürer, in the self-portrait below, (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.
– Title: Dead Blue Roller
– Date: circa 1500 or 1512
– Medium: Watercolor and body color, heightened with white body color and gold, on vellum.
– Dimensions: 27.4 × 19.8 cm.
– Current location: The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria.
This work is in the public domain.
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
— Marc Chagall
Artist.: Marc Chagall, in the photo below (July 6, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
– Title: Over Vitebsk
– Date: 1915 – 1920 (after a painting of 1914)
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 67 x 92.7 cm.
– Current location: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
– Credit: Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
© Marc Zakharovich Chagall.
About this work: Over Vitebsk belongs to a large series of works that the artist began after his return to his hometown in June 1914, which take as their subject an over-life-size, elderly beggar floating above the snow-laden rooftops of Vitebsk. The painting plays on the Yiddish expression for a beggar moving from door to door, "er geyt iber di hayzer", which translates as "he walks over the houses." This whimsical turn of phrase allowed Chagall to transform an otherwise naturalistically rendered scene of Vitebsk in winter through the addition of a strange airborne character with a sack on his back, whose presence imbues the composition with a dreamlike otherworldliness.
If Chagall left Russia physically to live in Paris, he never did so emotionally or spiritually: Vitebsk figures in much of the work he created in France. His distance from family and Bella Rosenfeld, who would eventually become his wife, undoubtedly fed his fondness for his home town. Indeed, Chagall's sense of self was so rooted there that he would come to consider Paris his "second Vitebsk." This may sound like the mooning of a romantic and homesick artist. Yet looking at Over Vitebsk one gets such a particular feeling of the place - where magical events are as prosaic as milking the cow - that it's impossible not to feel bewitched by them. Chagall is the rare sophisticate who manages to tap into the emotional sturdiness of folk culture without belittling or, at least in these paintings, over-sentimentalizing it. As an artist he was a product of both modernist Paris and the shtetl, a hybrid of the urban and the rural, the new and the old. This is what makes his best work compassionately earthy and utterly fantastic. It is what makes Chagall Chagall.
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Artist.: Salvador Dalí, in the photo below, (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) or Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
– Title: The Face Of War or in spanish La Cara de la Guerra
– Date: 1940 – 1941
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 64 x 79 cm.
– Current location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at the Museumpark in the district Rotterdam Centrum, close to the Kunsthal and the Natural History Museum. The museum opened in 1849. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen.
© Salvador Dalí.
About this work: this painting was done in California at the end of year 1940; the horrible face of war, its eyes filled with infinite death, was much more a reminiscence of the Spanish Civil War than of the Second World War, which, at the time, had not yet provided a cortege of frightful images capable of impressing Dalí. The horror of this painting is further increased by the brown tonalities which dominate its atmosphere.
On the anecdotal side, Dalí has stressed that it was the only work where one could see the true imprint of his hand on the canvas (at the lower right).
In his diary, Dalí wrote: "The two most energetic motors that make the artistic and superfine brain of Salvador Dalí function are, first, libido, or the sexual instinct, and, second, the anguish of death,...not a single minute of my life passes without the sublime Catholic, apostolic, and Roman specter of death accompanying me even in the least important of my most subtle and capricious fantasies."
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Artist.: van Gogh, in the self-portrait below, (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
– Title: Bulb Fields also known as Flower Beds in Holland
– Date: The Hague, April 1883.
– Medium: oil on canvas mounted on panel.
– Dimensions: 48.9 × 66 cm.
– Current location: The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.
– Credit: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
This work is in the public domain.
About this work: Bulb Fields was Van Gogh’s first garden painting. Rectangular plots of blue, yellow, pink and red hyacinths allow Van Gogh to explore his interest in perspective. The low vantage point creates a panoramic view of the field of colorful spring flowers. It was made in Van Gogh's second year in The Hague.
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Artist.: Paul Gauguin, in the photo below, (June 7, 1848 – May 8, 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
– Original title: Nature Morte Aux Trois Petits Chiens
– Date: 1888
– Medium: oil on wood.
– Dimensions: 91.8 x 62.6 cm
– Current location: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
– Credit: Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund.
This work is in the public domain.
About of this work: this painting features three distinct zones: a still life of fruit in the foreground, a row of three blue goblets and apples diagonally bisecting the canvas, and three puppies drinking from a large pan. The incongruous scale and placement of these objects on a dramatically upturned tabletop results in a disorienting composition.
When Gauguin painted Still Life with Three Puppies, he was living in Brittany among a group of experimental painters. He abandoned naturalistic depictions and colors, declaring that "art is an abstraction" to be derived "from nature while dreaming before it." The puppies bodies, for example, are outlined in bold blue, and the patterning of their coats mirrors the botanic print of the tablecloth. It is thought that Gauguin drew stylistic inspiration for this painting from children's book illustrations and from Japanese prints, which were introduced to him by his friend and fellow artist Vincent van Gogh that same year.
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Artist.: Iman Maleki (born 1976), in the photo below, is an Iranian Realist painter. Iman Maleki's fascination with painting began as a child. He started taking lessons in painting at the age of fifteen. His first and only teacher in painting was the celebrated Iranian painter Mortezā Kātouziān. His career as a professional painter began during this period. Maleki studied, from 1995, at the Fine Arts Faculty of University of Tehran, from where he graduated in Graphic Design in 1999. Since 1998 he has presented several exhibitions of his paintings.
– Title: Emigrant
– Date: 2003
– Medium: colored pencil on paper
– Dimensions: 53 x 37 cm.
© Iman Maleki.
Artist.: van Gogh, in the self-portrait below, (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
– Title: Evening Landscape with Rising Moon
– Date: 1889; Saint-rémy-de-provence, France.
– Medium: oil on canvas
– Dimensions: 72 x 92 cm.
– Current location: The Kröller-Müller Museum is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum was founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller and opened in 1938.
This work is in the public domain.
About this work: the moon, the sun and the stars were important symbolic elements for Van Gogh who equated their radiating light to religious precepts surrounding resurrection, redemption and salvation. In this pointing the moon in brilliant yellow rises from behind the smoky blue Alpilles mountains, and radiates a light that he has evoked through multiple short strokes of white paint. His use of these short, regular, white strokes was fairly unusual for him, but gives the effect of the dappled moonlight playing across the landscape.
There is great rhythm in this painting that is created through these very precise brushstrokes - every stroke of paint here has a function and builds towards the greater surface pattern across the canvas. His forms are very rounded from the stacks of wheat to the mountains, and this sense of 'roundness' and curvature was something that was characteristic of many of his later works. This painting was done in July 1889, which was when he made his first trip back to Aries from the asylum, and subsequently had his first serious breakdown in Soint-Remy.
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Artist.: Joan Miró, in the photo below, (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
Title: "Hirondelle Amour"
Date: late fall 1933 – winter 1934 (Barcelona).
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 199.3 x 247.6 cm.
Current location: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.
Credit: Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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© Joan Miró i Ferrà.
About this work: with Hirondelle Amour, 1933, Miró created a wash of lively colors upon his canvas, out of which emerged forms and lines, suggesting the origins of both human thought and the universe. Conducting his own Surrealism-inspired exploration, Miró invented a new kind of pictorial space in which carefully rendered objects issuing strictly from the artist's imagination are juxtaposed with basic, recognizable forms. The presence of amorphous shapes, floating in an undefined space, characterize much of Miró works in 1930s.
Joan Miró was never closely aligned with any movement and was too retiring in his manner to be the object of a personality cult, like his compatriot Picasso, but the formal and technical innovations that he sustained over a very long career guaranteed his influence on 20th-century art.
Miro's oft-quoted interest in the assassination of painting is derived from a dislike of bourgeois art, which he believed was used as a way to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy. Specifically, Miró responded to Cubism in this way, which by the time of his quote had become an established art form in France. He is quoted as saying "I will break their guitar," referring to Picasso's paintings, with the intent to attack the popularity and appropriation of Picasso's art by politics.
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Artist.: Albrecht Dürer, in the self-portrait below, (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.
Title: Jesus among the Doctors (as a child debating in the temple) or Twelve-year-old Jesus among the Scribes
Date: 1506
Medium: oil on panel.
Height: 64.3 cm. Width: 80.3 cm.
Current location: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum at one of city's main boulevards. It is known as part of the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofia national galleries. The Thyssen-Bornemisza fills the historical gaps in its counterparts' collections: in the Prado's case this includes Italian primitives and works from the English, Dutch and German schools, while in the case of the Reina Sofia it concerns Impressionists, Expressionists, and European and American paintings from the 20th century.
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This work is in the public domain.
About this work: According to some sources, it could have been given to painter Giovanni Bellini. The subject had been already treated by Dürer in a woodcut of the Life of the Virgin series and in a panel of the Seven Sorrows Polyptych. However, in the Venetian work the German artist adopted a totally new composition, with the characters occupying the whole scene and surrounding the young Jesus, leaving a little room for the black background.
The topic is the Finding in the Temple episode from Jesus' childhood, found in the Gospel of Luke. The character at the left of Jesus is a true caricature, perhaps inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings seen by Dürer. The man in the lower right corner has a cartouche on his beret, a custom of the Pharisees. The one on the opposite side is perhaps a citation of Bellini.
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Artist.: Alfred Hutty, in the photo below, (15 September, 1877 – 27 June, 1954) was a 20th-century American artist who is considered one of the leading figures of the Charleston Renaissance. His oeuvre ranges from impressionist landscape paintings to detailed drawings and prints of life in the South Carolina Lowcountry. He was active in local arts organizations, helping to found both an art school and an etchers' club.
Title: Magnolia Gardens
Date: 1920
Medium: oil on canvas.
Height: 1,012.698 mm. Width: 806.45 mm.
Current location: formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Gibbes Museum of Art is an art museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905. The Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works of fine art, principally American works, many with a connection to Charleston or the South.
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This work is in the public domain.
About this work: Alfred Hutty traveled to Charleston for the first time in 1920 to teach a season of painting classes at the Gibbes Museum of Art. Overwhelmed by the city's beauty, he returned every winter for the next thirty years. Though his main studio and home remained in the artists' colony at Woodstock, New York, Hutty became one of the most prolific interpreters of Charleston and its surrounding landscapes during the first half of the twentieth century. His broadly exhibited etchings and paintings enticed a number of artists to visit the region.
