Category: Famous Paintings
Irises by Vincent van Gogh, May 1889
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
Saint-Rémy, France, May, 1889, Oil on canvas, 71 x 93 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles The passionate late work of van Gogh, the hero of Modernism, was the product of his familiarity with Japanese color woodcuts. “Here my life becomes more and more like that of a Japanese painter” he wrote in a…
Guernica: Destruction, Suffering, and Hope in Picasso’s Guernica
| February 7, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
“The public… must see in the horse or in the bull symbols which they should interpret as they wish…” – Pablo Picasso Guernica by Pablo Picasso, May 1 to June 4 1937, Paris Oil on canvas 349.3 cm x 776.6 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Incoming search terms:the destruction guernicapicasso guernica sketchespicasso paintings pegasus
The Potato Eaters: van Gogh’s Best Painting
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
“I think that picture of the peasants eating potatoes that I painted in Nuenen is the best of all my work.” Writing to his sister two years later from Paris, van Gogh still considered The Potato Eaters his most successful paintings. Basically it was the only one of his paintings that he considered worth showing…
Primavera: Delight in an Image of Sandro Botticelli’s Masterpiece
| January 14, 2012 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
It is that time of year again -spring! And during this season, my mind returns to an image that embodies expectations of spring – Botticelli‘s “Primavera“. Indeed, the very name of the painting means “Spring” in Italian. What could be a more evocative symbol for the promises of the forthcoming season than this painting? Incoming…
Girls on a Jetty – Edvard Munch
| May 9, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Paintings |
The art of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch reflects the artist’s lifelong preoccupation with such universal themes as love, sexual conflict, anxiety, and death. The depiction of figures on a pier or jetty, a metaphor for modern man’s feelings of isolation and despair, was one of Munch’s recurring subjects for over four decades. Incoming search…
Claude Monet: Weeping Willow aka Saule Pleureur
| May 9, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Paintings |
Working in series, as he had since innovating that influential concept already in the 1880s, Monet painted ten easel-scale Weeping Willows around 1918. Richly somber in terms of color and brutally charged in terms of the brushwork, these paintings are generally grouped with Monet’s dark brown and orange paintings of other motifs, including the Japanese…
Triumph of Bacchus (The Topers) by Velazquez
| November 16, 2010 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
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Bacchus, the god of wine and orgiastic pleasure, is pictured half-naked, with the unhealthy flesh of his bust a sickly white, as he puts a crown of ivy on the head of an adolescent peasant kneeling before him. In this painting Bacchus is described more as if he were performing the role of a god…
Portrait by Diego Velázquez, Musei Capitolini, Rome
| November 15, 2010 | Posted by admin under Famous Paintings |
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Portrait 1630 Oil on canvas, 67 x 50 cm Rome, Musei Capitolini Direct comparison with other works by Velazquez in Rome gives a very valuable opportunity to examine the authenticity of this painting in the Capitoline Museums. It is a controversial work, and has experienced alternating fortunes in the views of professionals. After the exhibitions…
Democritus, The Man with a Globe
| November 12, 2010 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Paintings |
The canvas shows a person dressed in a black doublet and red mantle, with an upward-pointing sideburns, teeth glinting between his thick lips, mustache, and short bangs, he smiles at the viewer and with his left hand points to a globe sitting on a table beside a number of books. His right hand rests on…
The Top 10 Most Famous Paintings You Must See
| October 10, 2010 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Famous Paintings |
Famous paintings inspire a sense of culture and history. World renowned artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, Vermeer, Renoir, Da Vinci, and Monet have captivated people for centuries. If you are looking for a popular oil painting reproduction, take a look at this list of the top 10 famous reproductions. Incoming search terms:famous paintingsCarnation Lily Lily…
