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Cubist Artworks Nowadays

Cubist artworks actually are still loved by many art-lovers, personally, I have some oil painting reproductions of Picasso paintings hanging in my office. Cubism is the most mentioned artistic movements of the 20th century. Many people know the name of cubism, however, when ask what is the cubism, what it stands for and who is main contributors to the movement. I guess most of people can not answer. As such, identifying what the impact of the movement is and where we see this impact in our lives today is not known and that is a shame, as this helps us see the world in a clearer, more complete context. Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In its second ...

Rembrandt and the night watch

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn He is considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. Nobody stands above master painter Rembrandt in bringing  portraits not only a depiction of the subject but incorporating their life, history and personality. That is why Rembrandt paintings are loved by so many people. Born in Leiden in the Dutch republic in 1606, Rembrandt showed an early affinity for painting, and choose to develop his skill further. his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity an...

Klimt the famous kiss painting

Klimt The kiss is probably his most famous painting from a long and distinguished career and is also always hot sell paintings for sale . This article share more information about this famous painting, I think it will be helpful art-lovers to know more about Gustav Klimt and his artworks. All the other great Klimt paintings will be included to make this a thorough study of his career, for those who only know of The Kiss and wish to find out more about Klimt's others. The kiss was painted in 1907 when klimt was 45 and this period also is his Golden Period. It depicts a couple, in various shades of gold and symbols, sharing a kiss against a bronze background. Behind the respectable facade Klimt was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite. he had a fixation with redheads. It is no surprise that the woman in The Kiss has red hair. In The Kiss, Klimt depicted a couple locked in an embrace. The rest of the painting dissolves into shimmering, extravagant flat pa...

Van Gogh and Munch famous paintings

When we mention the crazy artist, every one would first think of Van Gogh, howevery, Munch is also a crazy painter. Both of these artists were known to suffer from mental illness. Munch had bi-polar disorder and Van Gogh suffered from paranoia. They both suffered in ways which we can not understand, but how dit this show up in their artworks? When comparing Munch paintings and Van Gogh paintings , Munch painting is more disturebed than Van Gogh paintings. As a matter of fact, Van Gogh was an influence for Munch. He painted emotion which were dark and "negative" and his work had a depth of sorrow and madness to it that may be unsurpassed. On the other hand, while Van Gogh's paintings were often somber and we can not see this in Munch's work. Munch抯 paintings symolize our modern feeling of despair and hopeless. One of this famous painting is the scream which has become an icon of the world today. Paintings were part of Munch抯 therapy, accordi...

Something about fine art reproductions

Many people Like discussing art with friends and family. It is a good topic when guests visit the home, especially for famous and popular oil paintings, such as Van Gogh paintings, Claude Monet paintings and so on. Although most of us can not afford the original masterpieces, however, good qualilty oil painting reproductions would be the best alternative. A beautiful art reproduction can be the focus in a room. Oil painting can transform a room and make it stand out. It is important to match art work to the style of decoration that a person has in their home. Different people may have different favourate types, artwork is totally a personal thing. Some people may like a certain styles of art while others may dislike it. Today, oil painting reproduction has become a big industry and purchasing canvas art online gives you wide range of choice, people can choose the styles they like at any sizes they need. There are many amazingly designed famous oil painting pictu...

Something about Michelangelo

Michelangelo paintings are loved by many art-lovers, especially the creation of Adam is one of our popular oil paintings for sale . Why is Michelangelo  so famous? Why is it that his name shines forth as one of the greatest Renaissance artists, while there are many who score over him in the terms of techniques and execution? Why is it that he is the de facto patron of sculptors and painters? There are three main reasons to justify Michelangelo's claim to this unparallel fame and glory, versatility, volume, and perfection, a combination that was almost out of this world. The amount of work that he did, surpasses many a modern artists even in this age of mass production. Starting from initial sketches, moving to oils, and then graduating from frescoes to sculptures, even the most prolific of the artists would appear short of this genius. In addition, he left no stone of Renaissance Art unturned. Be in fine arts, architecture, or iconography, he was almost an ...

Tips on choosing right canvas art

Decorating home is an art, and everyone who interested in living in a clean, tidy and stylish home should learn to use the art of decorating home in correct way. Nowadays, we have many many choice and ideas to stylize our home, however, I think there is nothing better than hanging some museum quality oil painting reproductions on your wall. You will be surprised to see the grace a correctly chosen art reproduction can lend to your home. These paintings will enhance the look of your home. Purchasing oil painting reproductions is no longer a tricky task as there are many online stores offering some nice masterpieces to get for your home. However, if you are the first time to buy oil painting reproductions, take the following things into consideration will help you a lot in choosing a right art for yoru home.  * When purchasing canvas art in the internet, you should know the qualities of oil paintings, museum quality, top quality, high quality, medium quality and ...