2014年4月18日星期五

The Young Ladies of Avignon

The Young Ladies of Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura. In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The proto-cubist work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both cubism and modern art. Demoiselles was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement, even amongst his closest associates and friends.

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.

Sleeping Venus

Sleeping Venus painting, one of the last works by Giorgione, portrays a nude woman whose profile seems to follow that of the hills in the background. Giorgione put a great deal of effort into painting the background details and shadows. The choice of a nude woman marked a revolution in art, and is considered by some authorities one of the starting points of modern art. The painting was unfinished at the time of his death. The landscape and sky were later finished by Titian, who later painted the similar Venus of Urbino.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of an Unknown Woman is a painting by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, executed in 1883. The identity of the model is unknown and depicts a woman of "quiet strength and forthright gaze".It is one of Russia's best-known art works, although a number of critics were indignant when the painting was first exhibited and condemned what they saw as a depiction of a haughty and immoral woman. Its popularity has grown with changes in public taste.

2014年4月1日星期二

Polish artist carol park paintings


Carol park (Karol Bak) was born in Poland in 1961.In the period from 1984 to 1984 in the central academy of fine arts (ASP) now studying oil painting, graduated with high honors.He is very famous painter and graphic artist in Poland.

2014年3月31日星期一

Stolen 63 painting exhibition

27 the Baltimore museum of art in 63 years ago stolen a French famous painter Pierre le nuba small oil paintings.
The theft of the Seine river in 1951 for le nuba creation in 1879, only 23 cm long and 14 cm wide.The Baltimore museum of art on the same day with the subject of the painting held a named "return" le nuba works exhibition, 30 is scheduled to open to the public.
Collectors "YiDi May 1925 in the French capital Paris bought the painting and lend the Baltimore museum of art, then give the museum is more than 800 works of art.

2013年12月26日星期四

Sally Rosenbaum California large art original oil painting floral still life art

Oil painting language on a variety of attempt and innovation, the Still life oil painting in different styles of western art genre.Experience a lot of experience and exploration, gradually formed its own system, a significantly different from the western oil painting art style, Oriental cultural context on nationality, and try to find a conservative California aesthetics in the artistic language connotation, and consistent with age and the oil painting art aesthetic orientation.
In the 1980 s of vernacular and classical, California wind realism phase difference, in terms of language style.Represented by Sally Rosenbaum new generation “artists, the far-reaching influence for California contemporary representational realism oil painting happened. People begin to pay close attention to the spirit of survival state, expression and individual value of thinking to the reality and the life. Without exception, painting in the realistic said attaches great importance to language, to shape characters from modelling to calligraphic style using exaggeration, freehand brushwork in traditional Still life painting, occasionally with some almost comic characters, how much this also reflect the aesthetic tendency of the contemporary oil painting art language. Based on the life, emotion, or even stand considered game side, the major of serious and profound social, life and cultural issues to resolve in the humorous banter and witty entertainment. This is the Still life oil painting since temporary lay particular stress on the collective aesthetic consciousness, elite discourse of a breakthrough.