Artists of this period c. 500 – 320 BC were absorbed in studies of the human figure. Their portrayal of the human anatomy, working from life figures, and adjusting the poses, exaggerating certain features was a quantum leap in the development of art. Ancient Greek art is filled with excellent super-human, beautifully crafted human bodies. [...]
Prehistoric art, or art of the stone age comes from the itme 15000BC – 10000BC. Most of the art that can be found to date are mostly sculptures. Prehistoric Cave Painting of a Horse … Prehistoric Cave Painting of a Wild B… Prehistoric Cave Painting of a Bull, … Cave paintings from this era are [...]
The Early Renaissance (c. 1300 -1500) was the re-birth of technical development in the arts. This was the time when artists were no longer just anonymous craftsmen and started to put their names on the artworks. The attitudes towards creating art also changed. There was renewed interests in philosophy and literature which was less restricted [...]
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a famous French artist. His art style was characterized as Fauvism. Subjects in his paintings are seascapes, boats, landscapes still-lifes and florals. The brushstrokes are simple and confident, true to the Fauvist principle of color and strokes without the need to create realistic representation of the object. His objects hence are [...]
Tamara De Lempicka ( 1898 – 1980 ) was a Russian born painter. Her works were mainly figurative and sometimes floral in the art deco style. Famous paintings of de Lempicka were mainly portraits. They are beautiful with dramatic light and shadows. Her paintings are almost cinematic in quality. One can understand how the effect [...]
Expressionism (1890-1934) originated in Germany. This art movement is all about art expressing emotion. This emotion is mostly angst aimed at society and the politics that affect the state of decline in world order of the time. In the early 20th century, Europe was in between two world wars. There was socio-political unrest and a [...]
Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso ( 1881–1973) was the pioneer of the art style, Cubism. Picasso paintings are representative of this art movement which also marked the dawn of modern art as we know it. Some of the most famous Picasso Paintings included renderings of the human figure in non-organic, highly stylized geometric forms. Historians have [...]
Ludwig Hohlwein (1874- 1949) was a German poster artist. His style is know as art deco. Some of his best celebrated motifs were of equine. Posters of Hohlwein’s art deco poster prints are ideal for walls of rooms that need a vintage masculine touch. Fussball-Wettspiel Buy From Art.com Horse and Fox Terrier Buy From Art.com [...]
Deeply impressed by surrealism, Francis Bacon’s visionary and human portraits are suspended in conflict between control and fear, aggression and pain. The artist often sets his figures in enclosed space. The figures are often skewed and mutilated, and painted in intensively expressive colors and brushwork. Bacon was homosexual. “Triptych 1971″ (in some records it as [...]
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