Category: Famous Painters
Women Painters and the Absence of the Bourgeois Ideal
| March 11, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
In Women and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, Gen Doy points out that the bourgeois ideal of the “happy mother” is rarely represented in paintings produced by early nineteenth-century French women painters. Even in the “feminine” genres of portraiture and genre scenes, this paradigm is a rarity. Among David’s pupils, Constance Charpentier appears to be the only…
Winslow Homer Landscape Painter and Printmaker – American Marine Painting
| February 9, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art. American painter Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 24, 1836. He is considered one of the most influential…
van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
Ah, such a glorious invitation this gorgeous book jacket extends. In colors of blue, yellow and red, the names and faces of two of the most well-known and well-loved artists of all time, silently request your presence. Inside… a beautifully composed story which picks up where others have left off. Written by Debora Silverman, this…
Mary Cassatt – A Brief Introduction to This Female Impressionist
| January 12, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
Mary Cassatt was born in 1845 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a youngster, Cassatt was very interested in art – a passion which according to some, was not fully encouraged by her father, a banker. He did however support his daughter in her wishes to first study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and…
The Techniques of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
| October 26, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Painters |
Although Toulouse-Lautrec spent five years at the Bonnat atelier working with Emile Bernard, van Gogh and François Gauzi, he was somewhat alone among his fellow painters. His idol was Eugene Delacroix. He did, however, exhibit in the 1889 Salon des Independents, introducing Au bal du Moulin de la Gatte. Toulouse-Lautrec was largely a painter of…
Lois Mailou Jones: An African American Artist
| August 26, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Painters |
Lois Mailou Jones was born in 1905, the daughter of Thomas Vreeland Jones, the first African-American graduate of Boston’s Suffolk Law School. Her mother encouraged her early artistic endeavors but it was until she received an offer for a vocational drawing course – even though she was talented, Jones suffered racial prejudice when her application…
The Secrets of the Masters – Leonardo da Vinci
| June 7, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Painters |
Da Vinci’s palette consisted of black, white, red, yellow, green and blue – the colors that da Vinci accepted as the primary colors based on the writing of Cennino Cennini in The Craftsman’s Handbook. The glazing techniques of the Old Masters have not been widely used for several centuries. The palette colors above are not…
Yamada Baske, Japanese Impressionist
| May 4, 2011 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
Although Western art was known in Japan from the end of the 16th century, it was only after the Imperial Restoration of 1868 that Japanese artists began studying Western painting techniques to any meaningful extent. While many Japanese art students sought instruction in Europe, America too attracted its share. One of these was Yamada Baske…
Henri Matisse – His Life, Sculpture, Paintings and Influence
| April 5, 2011 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
“What I dream of is an art of equilibrium, purity and tranquility, devoid of upsetting or troubling subject matter …” – Henri Matisse A profound statement from a man who up until the age of twenty had no idea that he had been “chosen” to become one of the most influential artists or his time.…
Caspar David Friedrich Landscape Painting
| April 5, 2011 | Posted by admin under Famous Painters |
If you were an artist… how would you paint nature? Do you find nature overwhelming in its turmoil? If so, would you paint it as Turner did in Snowstorm? Or, does nature give you a sense of serenity? If you feel a peaceful, quiet in nature, how would you paint yourself in such a space?…
