Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
I'm Jben and I have drawn massive designs on the beach since 2013 using rakes. I'm located on the French West coast in Royan where I have lots of different beaches to use as a canvas for my art.
Rochefort's escape by Édouard Manet, 1881. Manet was the elder statesman of the Impressionists. His unconventional subject matter drawn from modern life, and his concern for the artist's freedom in handling paint made him an important precursor of Impressionism.
There are a lot of fiber artists out there whose works create a juxtaposition between the traditional and acceptable ‘feminine’ medium of embroidery and the macabre or sexual subjects they choose to depict, but Lorenzo Nanni takes this contrast to a whole new level. His …
Un artiste a décidé de rendre hommage à ces instants simples mais magiques qui, si on y prend garde, alimentent le bonheur d’un couple au quotidien. Beau !
Photo 2, Fall 2011 My work is about the exploitation of women. As you can see, I was influenced heavily by Barbara Kruger's work. Similar to her, I used bold text for a saying that is controversial and offensive. I want these to be offensive. These sayings are not necessarily my views but more of how society sometimes views women. I want my viewers to understand how it feels to be a woman. I myself am offended every day when I am told how to act, look, feel, and that I am being “unladylike”. It doesn’t feel good to see beautiful women everywhere you go bringing you down even more because apparently my peers don’t do that enough. I am saddened that some women actually try to fit into the stereotypes and do whatever society tells them. I admit, I do some of them too. It’s a rough world trying to “fit” in. It also saddens that because I am not thin, don’t sleep around, don’t always look the prettiest, don’t suffice to a man, I feel like I don’t fit in or even to the point that I may not be considered a woman to some. But I AM woman. I am strong. I am brave. I DO have the power to fight these stereotypes and be my own person. I hope you feel empowered by these images. Never forget, a woman brought you into this world. Appreciate that. We have the power and we are strong.
Inspiring! Enjoy the elegant dada collages by the American artist Annalynn Hammond.
Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori (first featured here) combines soft, cuddly and adorable with depressing and morbid. His primary subject, highschool age girls, appear dejected and even mutilated by some unseen force behind this candy-filled facade. Slight and anonymous, they are almost helpless in this abnormal environment. In one painting, sugary syrup, flowers and toys ooze from teddy bear stomachs, emulating internal organs.
Seven Days of Garbage by Californian photographer Gregg Segal. Men, women, couples and families with young children in Pasadena, California were photographed lying on their backs surrounded by a week's worth of their own rubbish
In 1947, Norman Rockwell was approached by Cecil B. DeMille to help conceptualize the most dramatic and meaningful moments of what would become one of the most successful films of all time. Concerned with making something with gravitas, DeMille insisted that Rockwell, step outside of his aesthetic of everyday genre scenes that had made him famous, look to Old Master depictions of the subject. The work became a central plank in Rockwell’s ambitions to create an academy of art, and be seen as a serious figurative artist. About the Commission John Bainbridge. “Samson and Delilah and DeMille: The masters of the biblical epic turns in a fine performance directing his new spectacle.,” Life Magazine, 5 Dec. 1949: Casting the two principal roles posed a problem, especially since DeMille prides himself on, among other things, the verisimilitude of the characters and backgrounds in his movies. He hired a researcher, one of whose tasks, aside from digging up lore on how people dressed, ate and generally behaved in the olden times, was to round up photographs of the paintings of Samson and Delilah by the Old masters — Rembrandt, Rubens, Gustave Doré, and others. Group photo of Famous Artists School Faculty. Left to right: Harold von Schmidt, John Atherton, Al Parker, founder Al Dorne, Norman Rockwell (with painting created for “Samson and Delilah”), Ben Stahl, Peter Helck, Stevan Dohanos, Jon Whitcomb, Austin Briggs, and Robert Fawcett. The Significance of Samson in Norman Rockwell’s Ouevre The commission coincided with the founding of the Famous Artist School, a new educational effort by twelve professional artists to promote arts education by correspondence. Advertisements for the courses were promoted heavily in national publications. Rockwell was perhaps the most promiment of the twelve, and his image was featured heavily in promotional materials. These promotional images featured Rockwell working at his easel on Samson (1948), sending an important message about the kind of education students would receive. By 1948, Rockwell had a well-established, national reputation as a painter of genre scenes for magazines. Until recently, this meant that Rockwell was not considered a fine artist; but, rather, as an illustrator. Samson represented a serious aspirational break from Rockwell’s ouevre; an attempt to establish himself as a history painter, in the academic sense. From the Renaissance, there had been established a well-known heirarchy of art. Those who created large-scale historical, mythological, and religious scenes, were considered artists of the highest order. This idea was perhaps best articulated by the seventeenth-century thinker André Felebien: He who produces perfect landscapes is above another who only produces fruit, flowers or seashells. He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled. For that he must pass from representing a single figure to several together; history and myth must be depicted; great events must be represented as by historians, or like the poets, subjects that will please, and climbing still higher, he must have the skill to cover under the veil of myth the virtues of great men in allegories, and the mysteries they reveal It is my assertion that by using Samson and not one of his more popular images in promotional materials for his school, Rockwell was attempting to assert his seriousness as an artist in the academic tradition. Condition The work was discovered in a carboard tube by the stepson of Victor Emmanuel, who originally posed for Norman Rockwell for the work. The work was in three pieces, taped on the reverse. The tape had become brittle. And, it was determined by conservators that the best solution would be to lay the three works, as originally configured, on linen. The absence of foxing and tears suggest that the work has remained in the tube since it was originally put in the tube, perhaps by Rockwell himself. The idea that it has not been removed and displayed is further suggested by the lack of yellowing in the paper caused by exposure to light. The drawing itself is well preserved, without smudging. The “Norman Rockwell” signature in the bottom left hand is important. It indicates that Rockwell considered it complete and significant enough to stand on its own as a work of art.
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Love the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's Renaissance frescoes? Then you'll love these frescoes in Italy that have influenced all of Italian art history!
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The artist Cezanne was very dedicated and studied his subjects extensively. These Paul Cezanne art projects for kids are a great way to be inspired by him.
There was never any doubt about the subject of Lot 377, a portrait of Rembrandt. But the auctioneers who valued it at £1,000, were a little less certain about the identity of the artist
While these works deal with a difficult subject matter, Jenny has found a way to present death as something hopeful, rather than devastating. And who knows, maybe it isn't as bad as we picture it?
Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the art print, "Voluptuary," by Phillip Dvorak, available for purchase at $315 USD. Original Printmaking: Etching on Paper. Size is 14 H x 11 W x 0.1 in.
“Flowers Of The Cosmos” by Fumiko Nakayama Let me just say right up front that this quilt show exceeded expectations in every way. Something I really love about Japan is …
Discover the Winners of the Character Design Challenge! The finest designs of the month submitted by the members of our community on Facebook. “Dragons & Dragonriders'' was the theme for..
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Artist: Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York). Date: ca. 1948–49. Medium: Dripped ink and enamel on paper. Dimensio...
Ireland-based Polish painter Tomasz Alen Kopera uses basic oils and acrylics on canvas to envelop his audience into an otherworldly realm where the
At 36, he is already one of the art world's brightest lights. We hang with Kehinde Wiley as he handpicks his subjects and transforms them, step by step,
Japanese artist and art university graduate Gotte have turned their creative skills towards a very cool subject. Their light-hearted watercolor animal drawings depict a typical day in their adorable pet's life - a cute hamster named Sukeroku.
In the photo-realistic series Anatomical Self-Dissections, artist Danny Quirk depicts several subjects performing dissections on their own bodies. The
Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders individuals deep in sleep onto the surface of her handmade pillows, matching the size of her subjects to the area one would physically occupy if they took a nap on her work. The stitched sleepers lay sprawled in different configurations on the white background, some with their arms outstretched, whiles othersContinue reading "Sleeping People Embroidered Onto Handmade Pillows by Maryam Ashkanian"
