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2 de ago. de 2022 · In the heyday of monumental Expressionism, Peter Dreher opted for small scales and mundane, inexpressive subject matter: Beginning in 1974, he painted a water glass in a realistic mode every day, which resulted in his landmark series “Tag Um Tag Ist Guter Tag” (“Day by Day, Good Day”).
17 de abr. de 2018 · Hasan Kale. Work by Hasan Kale from Think Small: The Tiniest Art in the World by Eva Katz, published by Chronicle Books 2018. Istanbul-based Hasan Kale has been known to paint on bottle caps, halved almonds, matchstick heads, and butterfly wings.
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The Mona Lisa represents Leonardo's pinnacle as a painter - the seemingly infinite variations in tone using subtle transparent glazes would produce a lifelike quality which helped to lift Renaissance portraiture to a new level. This was the celebrated aspect of the Mona Lisa for many centuries, but in recent years there has been a focus on the roma...
The Mona Lisa was a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, commissioned by her husband, Francesco del Giocondo, to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea. Sadly, she had previously lost a daughter just a few years earlier, and so Francesco was careful to wait several months before contacting Leonardo about this work. Both mother and child were happy...
Most scholars today believe that the model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was Lisa del Giocondo. Indeed, the most famous art biographer of that era, Giorgio Vasari, wrote exactly this within his detailed account of the artist's life, which for many years was the main source of knowledge regarding Da Vinci's career. A huge body of evidence has st...
The model is pictured from the waist up, in what is known as a "half-length" portrait. She is turned two-thirds towards us, and her eyes gaze directly in our direction. One hand is wrapped over the other and her facial expression is verging on a smile. A small balustrade runs across the foreground, just behind the sitter, and provides a clear divid...
How could such a seemingly simple composition rise to become the most famous painting of all time? Da Vinci's Mona Lisa features a wealth of innovations which would become the default style of portraiture for all Italian artists that followed. The three-quarter view in which the model is sat broke with tradition. Leonardo da Vinci had also perfecte...
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa may not carry the same symbolism that you might find in other genres, but there are secrets within the artwork that you may not initially pick up. Lisa Gherardini's personality is portrayed through the subtle uplifts around the lips and eyes, giving us an insight into the life of a happy mother and wife. The artist als...
Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa between the years of 1503–1506, at which point he would have been in his early fifties. There is considerable evidence to suggest, however, that he continued to re-visit the work from time to time, making minor adjustments until 1517 at the latest. That would mean that Leonardo would have been working on th...
Leonardo's Mona Lisa has resided at the Louvre in Paris, France since 1797. Its precise location is in Room 711 (Salle des États) of the Denon wing on Level 1. It remains the greatest highlight in the permanent collection of the Louvre, and attracts millions of visitors each and every year. It is joined within this room by The Wedding Feast at Cana...
16 de oct. de 2020 · By Kelly Grovier,Features correspondent. Wikimedia Commons. A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly...
13 de ene. de 2020 · This monochrome painting by American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) is in the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York. It's 60x60" (152.4x152.4cm), oil on canvas, and was painted 1960-61. For the last decade and a bit of his life (he died in 1967), Reinhardt used just black in his paintings.
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Walking up to Piet Mondrian’s painting, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow can be a baffling experience (see image above). The canvas is small and uses only the simplest of colors: red, blue, yellow, white and black.
In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte. The artist worked on the painting in...
