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“No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear....whatever is terrible, therefore, with regard to sight, is sublime, too." John Martin was a 19th century English painter, illustrator and engraver. He often featured melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources. John was first apprenticed by his father which was where he was inspired to create art. While attending school at the Royal Academy he later got…

Rosa Bonheur and Olafur Eliasson are two completely different types of artists but yet have similarities in their admiration for the elements of the natural world. Both artists had successful business art careers and represented their convictions as activists. We will discuss and summarize who these artists symbolize by discovering what sparked their interest to pursue art, the different styles and types of art, how they conducted their art careers, how they marketed their works, and how they…

PERSONALITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION – 28102015-01 Title: Facts On Great Personalities – M F Husain Description: M F Husain was one of the great Indian artists who was known for his vibrantly colored and bold narrative cubist style paintings. He was also recognized internationally. Keywords: Great Indian Personalities, artists, paintings, M F Husain, M F Hussain, kids, kids world fun Text: M F Husain , or popularly known as MF, was one of the most gifted and celebrated Indian modernist…

In 1937, the Spanish government commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint an oil on canvas mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris, France. Guernica is a large piece, sitting at twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance of their pavilion. Picasso found inspiration from reading about the bombing of Guernica, Spain by the German air force, and although not a complete portrayal of the event, Picasso conveys the suffering and agony of the people and the tragedy of the war.…

This art piece was created by a well-known artist named Winslow Homer called “Right and Left” using oils for this piece. He was mainly known as a landscape painter and printmaker. The Louvre, national gallery of art states that Homer is “perhaps the most accomplished and popular of all American artists.” This gallery has displayed most of all his work throughout his career which was underway a little over one hundred and sixty years ago in 1857. This piece that I have choose stood out to me the…

from different times and cultures have created aesthetic qualities in artworks, communicated ideas and developed styles.” Throughout the history of art, there has been so many famous art styles and famous artists. Two of the most famous artists were Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo. Both of these two artists were in the same era but their work were two different styles. Picasso’s style was cubism whereas Kahlo’s style was surrealism. One of the famous artworks that Picasso has done was The Weeping…

The famous and iconic surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. Ever since his skills were noticed at a young age, Dalí was encouraged to practice them which would eventually lead him to go on to study at an art academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris, France and started interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró; this would lead to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. During this phase, he creates one of his pieces that he is perhaps…

Opposing Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco In July of 1936 the Spanish Civil War started and military officers who were led by Francisco Franco began revolting against the democratically elected Second Republic. At this time Picasso, who was a Republican supporter, completed a series of anti-Franco etchings. The artist expressed his feelings by saying that the military caste was “plunging Spain into an ocean of misery and death”. One of his most notable paintings is “Guernica” painted for the…

Paul Cezanne was an amazing and influential painter to Matisse, Picasso, and many other artists that would follow. Cezanne's work would nearly single-handedly help reign in the artistic era of Cubism, as both Picasso and Matisse became interested in and inspired by his painting The Bathers, which was exhibited in 1907 (The National Gallery, 2016). His work inspired Matisse so much that he would go on to say that Cezanne was, "...father of us all" (Harris & Zucker, n.d., p.1). Cezanne's is most…

“City view” by Osnat Tzadok is a modern day contemporary abstract piece, presented as a vibrant coloured oil painting, on a stretched canvas over a wooden frame sized: 4 foot by 2 foot. Best appreciated in a spacious area against a plain background, so to promote its chromatic design and texture. As a Canadian artist, she uses real life images and a realistic approach to her abstract painting. Moreover, Tzadok painting’s show a concept of virtual and abstract life forms. This is shown by…